Agriculture. A partnership between Europe and farmers

The EU explained

This series of short brochures provides clear, easy-to-understand explanations of what the EU does in various policy areas, why the EU is involved and what the results are.The EU has 500 million consumers and they all need a reliable supply of healthy and nutritious food at an affordable price. The economic environment is set to remain uncertain and unpredictable. Moreover, there are many current and future challenges including global competition, economic and financial crises, climate change and volatile costs of inputs such as fuel and fertiliser.

To meet these challenges the EU has created and implemented the CAP. Its purpose is to set the conditions that will allow farmers to fulfil their multiple functions in society — the first of which is to produce food....

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