"Farmers in Brussels: Agricultural Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy, 1967-1992"

Project Information

AGRIREFORM

Grant agreement ID: 298653

Closed project

Start date 1 September 2012

End date 31 August 2014

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 270 145,80

EU contribution € 270 145,80

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION
United Kingdom

Objective

"The proposed research project explores the lack of reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the oldest common policy of the present day European Union, prior to 1992. It does so by analysing the role and influence of organised farm interests as one of the main driving forces behind agricultural policy inertia.
The project has two main aims. Firstly, it investigates how and to what extent farm interests became increasingly Europeanised in response to European policy changes and reform attempts of the CAP. Secondly, it explores whether and to what extent they successfully developed and used the European in addition to the national route of lobbying to defend the status quo of the policy. In exploring how and why farmers were able to prevent a reform of the CAP for 25 years, the project will trace the institutional and ideational Europeanisation of agricultural interests; explore the effects of these changes on farmers’ strategies for collective action; and assess their impact on the EU policy field.
The project takes into account four national producers’ organisations in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and two transnationally-constituted umbrella groups. To analyse how these organisations wielded power collectively to prevent CAP reform, the project focuses on two case studies of agricultural commodities: cereals and milk"

Fields of science

• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › grains and oilseeds › cereals

Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION

Administrative Contact

Wolfram Kaiser (Prof.)

• Address: Winston churchill avenue university house ; PO1 2UP Portsmouth ; United Kingdom
• Region: South East (England) › Hampshire and Isle of Wight › Portsmouth
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• EU contribution: No data