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The Political Economy of Degressivity and Capping: New evidence from Hungary

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The debate on reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020 has already started by when the European Commission published its own vision on the future of agriculture and food production in the European Union (European Commission, 2017). This Communication paper set the political arena. One of the key aspects of this debate relates to the revision of the system of EU direct payments to farmers. These payments which supplement incomes from farming have an overwhelming share in the budget assigned to Pillar I of the CAP. The fine tuning of the degressieve reduction and the capping of direct payments is to be part of the new reform package. Although it has, for a long time, been a popular idea to limit payments to larger farms in one way or another, and subsidise smaller agricultural holdings instead, new evidence from Hungary suggests that placing a cap on direct payments may cause more harm than good in terms of land use change.

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  • Szerletics, Akos, 2018. "The Political Economy of Degressivity and Capping: New evidence from Hungary," 162nd Seminar, April 26-27, 2018, Budapest, Hungary 271977, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eaa162:271977
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.271977
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    1. Balezentis, Tomas & Ribasauskiene, Erika & Morkunas, Mangirdas & Volkov, Artiom & Streimikiene, Dalia & Toma, Pierluigi, 2020. "Young farmers’ support under the Common Agricultural Policy and sustainability of rural regions: Evidence from Lithuania," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    2. Mizik, Tamás, 2019. "A közös agrárpolitika 2013. évi közvetlen támogatási rendszerének hatásai a magyar mezőgazdaságra [Impacts of the 2013 CAP direct-support system on Hungarian agriculture]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(11), pages 1210-1229.

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