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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 10/03
Where is Portuguese Agriculture Headed? An Analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy
Dulce Freire and Shawn Parkhurst
November 2, 2002
University of California, Berkeley
Center for German and European Studies
Abstract
In the first part of this paper we analyze the conditions in of a shifting emphasis from the politics of prices to a social-structural policy. We also ask how well the CAP has adjusted to the ecological and social characteristics of the countries of southern Europe and whether it has actually supported the agriculture and rural citizens of these countries. In the second part of the paper, we present some of the results of the application of the CAP in Portugal, and discuss what role agriculture might have in developing the rural sections of the country. Broadly, our goal is to determine to what extent attempts to shift the CAP's focus from agriculture to the rural world and from productivity to quality can benefit Portugal and the other countries of southern Europe. Different countries and interest groups received the intercalary revision with a varying mixture of fear, caution and hope, and have opened a serious debate. Our paper is a contribution to this debate.
