As the European Commission prepares its proposals on the forthcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2020, which are not expected to be revolutionary, the NGO Birdlife Europe suggests a more radical transformation of the CAP into a food and land-use policy.
Since the CAP has not been able to tackle the decline in biodiversity or arrest the depopulation of rural areas and keep small-scale farmers in business, Birdlife argues that the current two-pillar system (direct...