Seminar Abstract:

The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has changed substantially over the last three decades in response to emerging policy concerns. In the 1990s and 2000s, the changes involved redesign of farm income support instruments in order to respond to the growing pressure within the global trade negotiations (firstly in the GATT and then in the WTO). Later reforms were driven by increasing concerns within the EU that its farm industry was facing a number of environmental sustainability challenges. This resulted in CAP reforms layering new policy instruments on to the existing farm income support scheme. This seminar will outline the changing architecture of the CAP over time and discuss how concepts from the policy literature, in particular policy paradigms and layering, can be applied to understand the changes of the CAP. On the basis of this analysis, it will be discussed whether the planned 2027-reform will be an effective response to the multiple sustainability crises in the European farm industry.

When: 1-2pm, Thursday 19 October 2023 (Seminar / Q&A) / Q&A

In-Person – RMIT Building 80, Level 7 or Online – via Teams 

Welcome and introduction by: Professor Bruce Wilson, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, and Director of the European Union Centre of Excellence, RMIT University.

Acknowledgements:

OpenInnoTrain Project, is a global network of researchers and industry practitioners across Europe and Australia for promoting the translation of research between university-industry through cooperation and Open Innovation in the sectors of: FinTech, Industry 4.0, CleanTech, FoodTech. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 823971.

Carsten's bio:

Carsten Daugbjerg is a political scientist and professor in the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen and an honorary professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. His research area is comparative public policy with an interest in theories on policy networks and governance, policy feedback, policy paradigms, policy instruments and design. His empirical research has focused on agri-environmental regulation, organic food policy, biofuels policy, agricultural policy reform, farm trade negotiations in the WTO, private food standards and global food security governance.

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia – Global Business Innovation Enabling Impact Platform (Director, Professor Anne-Laure Mention).

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