Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the EuropeanUnion`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on amethodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European AgriculturalFund for Rural Development) funds in...

The main objectives of the study are to illuminate the development of the Common AgriculturalPolicy (CAP) up to the Agenda 2000 reforms, to evaluate the reform decision of June2003, and to show and discuss options for the future development of the CAP.In chapter 2 the objectives of the CAP are...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessaryto safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometricex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the threeEast German...