The distribution of direct payments of CAP to producers amongst EU Member States

• Authors: Zawojska A.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of the agricultural support distribution in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. Author used European Commission statistics of direct payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm holdings in EU Member States. The results show that distribution of direct payments is skewed towards a small number of very large holdings in a few Member States. Across the whole EU, 85% of direct payments funded from common budget went to the largest 19% of their recipients in 2005. In Poland, income from direct payments was also unfairly distributed.

Keywords

EN

direct payment; Common Agricultural Policy; distribution; producer; European Union; agriculture; Member State; farm; beneficiary

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 01(16)
• Physical description: p.101-111,fig.,ref.

Contributors

author

Zawojska A.

• Department of Economics and Economic Policy, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 166 Nowoursynowska Str., 02-787 Warsaw, Poland