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Geography - Miss Chant Cheryl Samuels 13F Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is designed to deliver economic viability, environmental improvement and rural development. The proposal set the framework for creating a competitive, sustainable EU agriculture industry. The EU had to find a fair, practical and acceptable way forward, capable of delivering real benefits to EU farmers and to society as a whole. * Increase agricultural productivity thus to ensure a fair standard of living for agricultural producers; * Stabilise food prices and food supplies; * Assure availability of supplies to consumers; * Ensure reasonable prices to consumers. After World War 2 agriculture was badly disrupted and rationing highlighted the importance of countries being self sufficient in food supplies. In many countries farming was very important. By 1957 at the Treaty of Rome it was recognised that agriculture was declining as industry grew. The CAP was necessary because food has a...

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