Common agriculture policy 2023-2027 (CAP)

CAP policies influence food quality, pesticide use, and rural development.

Poorly managed agricultural subsidies can increase vulnerability to climate hazards — floods, droughts, or pollution.

So what does cap actually do?

1. Steering the agriculture industry towards sustainability
2. A partnership between agriculture and society.

🎯cap main goals

1. Is CAP just another excuse to frame green growth as sustainable?

  • Does Brussels understand the reality of farmers?

  • How to balance between pleasing big and small farms?


2. The use of pesticides and the massive lobby on environmentally harmful agriculture chemicals inside the EU

  • The lobby for chemicals is massive

  • Poorly designed incentives can lead to environmental contamination, harming human helath or economic uncertainty for farmers

3. Issue of representation in local bodies

  • Farmers are underrepresented in local governance

  • Small and organic farms are even less represented. Large-scale industrial farms often receive most funds, while smallholders and riral communities may get left behind, deepening the inequality and limiting opportunities for sustainable livelihoods

4. Environmental issues

  • Policies influence wheter land is over-farmed, left fallow, or restored. Intensive farming without proper environmental safeguards depletes soil, reduces its fertility, and therefore harms long-term sustainability.

🛠️Problems

🌿The future
OF cap

1. Reshaping the paradigm of green growth towards degrowth
2. Becoming independent from unsustainable structures such as the use of pesticides and animal farming.