| What is Agricultural Policy? | A policy dealing with the production and distribution of food with a focus on supply, price, quality, land use and trade. |
| What is Food Security? | A condition in which people have access to sufficient safe and nutritious food. |
| What is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)? | It is a partnership between agriculture and society and between Europe and its farmers. |
| What are the 3 Prinicpals of the CAP? | The single market, community preference, and joint financing. |
| What is Joint Financing? | The cost that would be met by the community rather than by individual member states. |
| What are 4 Goals of the CAP? | Increase agricultural productivity, stabilize markets, and ensure reasonable prices for consumers and supply. |
| How does the CAP work concretely? | EC, CoM and farmers meet annually to agree on prices. When market prices fall below the target, the EU budget is used for price support. |
| What is the Mansholt Plan of 1968 - 1971 about? | The controversial plan was that smaller farmers should give up their land and stop farming. And farms would be merged into bigger units. |
| What is Food Safety about? | The policy aimed at promoting and protecting the quality of food at each stage from production and consumption. This include:
1. How food is produced, processed, packaged, labelled and sold.
2. How animals raised for food are managed.
3. Quality standards for plants and plant products. |
| What are GMO's? | Genetically modified organisms. An organism whose genetic construction has been engineered. |
| What is the Common Fisheries Policies? (CFP) | A joint EU policy aimed at managing fish stocks and regulating the EU fishing industry. |
| What are the Main Goals of the CFP? | To help support a competitive fishing industry while also preventing overfishing and ensuring sustainability. |
| What is meant by Common Pool Resources? | Resources that do not come under the jurisdiction of a single state and are open to unregulated exploitation which include air, ocean, and rivers. |
| What is the Tragedy of the Commons? | This situation shows how individuals, each acting rationally can destroy the very resources that sustain them all. Overexploitation of open access resources by users, because they pursue their individual interest against the general long-term interest. |
| Why is the CAP been a key in the European Integration Project? | It is entirely harmonized, monitored and coordinated by EU institutions. |
| Why is the relationship between payments and the amount farmers produce weakend? | Because the CAP reform have switched its focus from quantity to quality. |
