Autori
De Felice, Pierluigi
Di Giacomo Grillotti, Maria Gemma
Di Giacomo Grillotti, Maria Genna

Titolo
The EU Community Agricultural Policy on food safety and quality of food consumption
Periodico
Geoprogress journal
Anno: 2016 - Volume: 3 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 73 - Pagina finale: 84

The last half-century of European agricultural history deserves to be filed as a slow and contradictor process of converting values of the area, or rather, the relationship between environmental resources, local traditional cultivation techniques and cultural food patterns. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), established by the Treaties of Rome in 1957, over a few decades has changed the face of European farmland. Firstly by adapting production facilities, cropping systems and agricultural landscapes in a pattern of sectoral development and production required by the laws of the market and the relationship between supply and demand of food products. Increasing production and unitary yields, price support and set-aside policies - then supporting with increasing conviction, the integrated territorial development and the preservation of cultivated resources, local cultural and environmental structural policies, incentivisation of multifunctional and sustainable agriculture, development and protection of quality produce marked - PDO, PGI, TSG, BIO - all leading to the introduction of the “single farm payment”. The concern of ensuring food security for the whole population of the Union, in the evolution of the CAP, was then soon overcome by the desire to protect the food quality of typical local products. The different objectives that characterize the directives of the CAP are, especially in recent years, contradictory and have caused unresolved problems, which have been aggravated by the recent global economic crisis. Along with the food loss and waste, also no-food crops have increased and the number of people with difficulty accessing food has dramatically risen, as confirmed by some quantitative analysis of hunger in Europe. The authors critically examine history and programming of the CAP in light of the new incentives 2014-2020 and outcomes that could ensure both food safety and the quality of food consumption.



SICI: 2384-9398(2016)3:2<73:TECAPO>2.0.ZU;2-S
Testo completo: http://www.geoprogress.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/GPJ-2016-Vol-3-II-8.pdf

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