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To deliver on promises to better target support for young or small farmers, European Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen has large landowners in his sights. | Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/p>\nThe new purse for the agricultural policy, commonly known as CAP, guarantees that around \u20ac300 billion will go into farmers\u2019 pockets through various streams funded by the EU and co-financed by member countries. The burden of spending for things like climate incentives will be shared, while area-based support \u2014 paid out to farmers per hectare \u2014 will come from the EU\u2019s coffers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
To deliver on promises to better target support for young or small farmers, European Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen has large landowners in his sights. | Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Environmentalists worry that requiring member countries to chip in to unlock funding for climate-protection measures will deter their uptake, particularly given the overall budget reduction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you tell me ‘more incentives and less rules,’ and you don\u2019t provide me with a decent ring-fenced budget for those incentives to exist, you\u2019re cutting rules and not providing incentives,\u201d said Contiero.\u00a0\u201cAnd that\u2019s the overall trap of this new proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Similarly, young farmers are worried that their interests will fall by the wayside without a legally binding target for making sure they get their piece of the pie. Under the current CAP, 3 percent of funding goes to this group. In the fall, a 6 percent \u201caspirational\u201d target will be announced \u2014\u00a0which leaves the European Council of Young Farmers unimpressed.<\/p>\n
An aspirational target in the context of a constrained budget means that its members \u201chave to fight for money for young farmers, rather than what is now the case: that they have a certainty of 3 percent,\u201d explained the organization\u2019s president, Peter Meedendorp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Commission official familiar with the file, granted anonymity to speak candidly, dismissed those concerns, noting the legislation mandates member countries \u201cshall\u201d prioritize young farmers in their national plans, meaning they cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new purse for the agricultural policy, commonly known as CAP, guarantees that around \u20ac300 billion will go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3971,150772,1194,11664,33,2000,299,5187,6644,10779,7908,11784,3209,78416,3695,9917],"class_list":{"0":"post-447450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-alan-matthews","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-christophe-hansen","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-farmers","17":"tag-farms","18":"tag-food-security","19":"tag-level-playing-field","20":"tag-payments","21":"tag-small-farmers","22":"tag-sustainability","23":"tag-wine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115257268681264967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}