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French agriculture and the food industry: in search of lost competitiveness

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  • Butault, Jean-Pierre
  • Réquillart, Vincent

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The competitiveness of the European agricultural and food industries has been one of the key concerns of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since its creation in 1958. This objective was reaffirmed in the proposals made for the CAP reform post-2013. Yet, this competitiveness became fragile during the last decade, as we can see in the increase of the EU-27 trade balance deficit from 7 to 11 billion between 2000 and 2009. In France, agricultural production has been stagnating for 15 years, productivity has failed to increase and imports of food and agricultural produce are progressing more rapidly than exports.

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  • Butault, Jean-Pierre & Réquillart, Vincent, 2012. "French agriculture and the food industry: in search of lost competitiveness," INRAE Sciences Sociales, Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE), Departement Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et Alimentation, Espace et Environnement (SAE2), vol. 2011, pages 1-3, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:inrass:149009
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.149009
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