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If governments pay subsidies on or protect a productive process then it is inevitable that the price of the factors involved in that production will rise. In the case of agriculture the most obvious example is the effect of subsidies on the price of land.
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No Surprise: Farm Subsidies Raise Land Prices!
Posted by on 13/04/11
Food Security Depends on Science
Posted by on 08/04/11
It is now generally accepted that if an expected world population of 9+ billion by 2050 is to be adequately fed, world food production has to be massively increased.
Farm Ministers See No Limit on CAP Spending
Posted by on 25/03/11
It was entirely predictable that EU farm ministers would respond to the European Commission’s post 2013 CAP reform proposals by agreeing on a policy direction which would ensure that there can be no radical change in the Union’s €50+ billion a year common agricultural policy.
Food Security and Trade – An Unbreakable Link
Posted by on 24/02/11
Improved food security has long been a justification for protecting farmers. In the long history of European agriculture policy flinging up tariff walls and subsidising production has nearly always been the governmental response to the prospect of potential food shortage. The evidence that such actions generally result in a reduction of production outside the protected [...]
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