Professional AdviceYou are here : In Your Area » Midlands » Regional News » Food » CAP Reform
Massive challenges ahead for food producers, says rural guru Farmers and food producers will face greater challenges over the next 50 years than were ever encountered in the previous 50 – yet they will still be faced with the job of feeding an ever expanding population.
That was the message from Prof. Allan Buckwell, policy director at the CLA and a leading expert on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Prof. Buckwell has been on tour of the Midlands to discuss options for reform to the CAP with landowners and managers. He has been speaking at seminars across Warwickshire to outline the options for change and the key issues which will influence it. At talks in Leamington he warned farmers that a review of the CAP which has just been launched will coincide with a review of the EU budget as a whole – and that there were factions seeking to reduce expenditure on CAP. "We have to make the case for global food security but we have also to balance that with a promise of environmental security – a promise on which we will be expected to deliver," he said. Prof. Buckwell said that seventy per cent of Europe's land mass was farmed or forested – providing managed landscapes, managed environments, biodiversity and habitats, landscape and cultural heritage, water storage and filtration and carbon capture. "These are all public goods which are currently being provided by private industry. In addition, a huge proportion of our cultural heritage is locked in to rural areas. We believe that land managers and environmental interests must jointly make a case for the required budget in order to continue to provide those public goods." The debate, he said would be wide ranging and would need to encompass how CAP was distributed across all members states, it would need to encompass rural services and rural infrastructure. "The CAP must offer a strong common policy and it must have resources to match that expectation. We will have to continue to promote the need for a strong, common, policy to non-farming opinion formers," he said. |
Contact Have a problem - need advice? Midlands Office Knightley
Join the CLA today
The CLA Game Fair 2012
CLA Events in your area
To receive our regular email newsletter containing advice and the latest news affecting the region - contact the office or send your email address and membership number to info.midlands@cla.org.uk |
RSS Feeds
- Policy Topics
- Policy Topics
- Site sections
- Specially for members
© 2012 Country Land and Business Association Limited (CLA). All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in any retrieval system of any nature without prior written permission of the copyright holder except as expressly permitted by law.
Disclaimer
No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action in reliance on or as a result of the material included in or omitted in this website can be or is accepted by the author(s), the CLA or its officers or trustees or employees or any other persons.
The Advisory Services are made available to members on the basis that members' rights to compensation and the liability (if any) of CLA and its officers and/or its staff advisers, are restricted in the following ways. In the event of any advice given by any CLA staff adviser being given negligently or otherwise being incorrect no liability whatsoever is accepted by the CLA or its officers or by its staff advisers concerned
(a) towards any person who is not the current CLA member to whom the advice was directly given,
(b) to any person in the respect of consequential loss or loss of profits, or
(c) to any person for any sum exceeding £50,000 in respect of any one enquiry (whether made or responded to orally or in writing and whether dealt with at one time or over a period of time).
Any person making use of the Advisory Services accepts such restrictions. Members should refer to appropriate professional advisers in private practice before taking any particular course of action potentially or actually involving any substantial amounts of money.
Please note that whilst the advisers are able to advise on a wide range of subjects relating to land ownership, they cannot act in place of a member's own solicitor, accountant, surveyor and tax specialist by, for example, drafting documents or corresponding on their behalf and may be precluded, by the rules of their own professions, from advising one CLA member against another CLA member in the case of conflict.
Solicitors Indemnity Fund . Solicitors in the CLA Legal Team are not covered by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund in relation to professional negligence in relation to any advice given by them.
Please note that from time to time telephone calls maybe recorded for training purposes.