Decoupled aid, subterfuge for an unambitious European agriculture

From April 2015 the system for accessing defined contribution pensions at retirement will be….

The latter includes counter-cyclical aid in the United States and decoupled aid for the European Union.

The new American Farm Bill of 2014 gets rid of decoupled payments.

The greening of decoupled payments thus takes the form of an attempt at “greenwashing”5!

The three exceptions are Mexico with input subsidies, the United States with coupled and countercyclical aid, and the EU with mainly decoupled aids.

EU’s Increasing Use Of Decoupled Domestic Supports In Agriculture: Implications For Developing Countries.

4) The pro-PES speech is intended to condone the greening of decoupled payment to the detriment of the AECM

EU’s Increasing Use of Decoupled Domestic Supports in Agriculture: Implications For Developing Countries

Market developments in the arable crops sector together with the introduction of decoupled aids no longer justify the need for maintaining this instrument, which therefore should be abolished.

Mixed crop-livestock farms benefit from a combination of coupled and uncoupled support and from rural development assistance, resulting from the diversity of their production types and their location.

The case of spanish olives : did the European Union overreact by taking the issue to the WTO to defend decoupled aid ?

Thus, if he complies with these three criteria, each farmer receives a green payment representing 30% of the decoupled payments he previously received.

The European Union is the only one to base its agricultural policy on decoupled payments.

Remember that the European Union is the only group to base its agricultural policy on decoupled aid.