GAP: researchers’ recommendations for sm • Table.Briefings

According to researchers, small farms should be promoted if they strengthen regional value chains.

According to a new study, providing special support for small farms through EU agricultural subsidies is only effective under certain conditions. They recommend „more rather than less conditionality.“ These findings were criticized by the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture.

According to researchers, EU subsidies for small farms only make sense if they strengthen the respective region. This is what researchers from the French institutes IDDRI and INRAE write in a study that they recently presented to MEPs. Focusing subsidies on small farms carries the risk of promoting inefficient farms. The tendency in the EU is that the larger the farm, the more profitable it is.

GAP: researchers’ recommendations for small farms

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