Assessing the multiple Impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies
(CAP) on Rural Economies (CAP-IRE)
European rural areas are undergoing major changes. The Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) is the main expenditure chapter of the EU and is directly affecting
the economy of rural areas. Assessing the impact of the CAP will help in
re-addressing the CAP in the wider framework of EU policy objectives.
The objective of the project CAP-IRE is to develop concepts and tools
to support future CAP design, based on an improved understanding of long-term
socio-economic mechanisms of change in rural areas.
Coverage includes 11 case study regions in 9 countries of the EU. The
reaction of farm households to CAP reforms will be analysed under the lens of
six thematic plus one cross-thematic issues:
- farm structural adjustment, investment and innovation;
- chain interactions between agriculture and related economic sectors;
- environmental sustainability;
- social sustainability;
- interactions between rural communities and the rest of the world;
- governance issues;
- the interplay of the previous aspects on a spatial basis.
Coordinator
Davide Viaggi
Alma Mater
Studiorum Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Economia e Ingegneria Agrarie
(DEIAGRA)
Viale Fanin, 50
40127 BOLOGNA (ITALY)
Tel. +39 051 2096114
Fax: +39 051 2096105
e-mail:
davide.viaggi@unibo.it