66024 - POLITICA AGRARIA DELLE PRODUZIONI VEGETALI

Learning outcomes

The student will be able to understand and to analyze agrarian policy, both at national and EU level, as well as the institutions and the forms of participation adopted for the development of the agricultural sector with specific reference to crop productions.

Course contents

Prerequisites

The student can have access to this course if he possesses a previous basic knowledge of micro-economic and rural appraisal. In addition, he will have to know all the rationale concerning the behaviour of economic actors respectively on the demand and supply side, the market structure and its most common modelling.

Teaching unit

The course is based on seven teaching unit:

1. The evolution of the common agriculture after the WW2 (tot. unit 4 hours)

1.1. The principal macro-economic variables of  the European agriculture (tot.  2 hours)

1.2. Agriculture - Industry- Distribution in Europe: interconnections and integration (tot. 2 hours)

2. The origins of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP): the agriculture in the economic integration process (tot. unit 6 hours)

2.1. How the Italian agriculture was organised, during the CAP origins, compared to the other  agriculture partners (tot. 2 hours) 

2.2.The most important issues (problems) of the Italian and of the communitarian (UE) agriculture (tot. ore 2 hours)

2.3. The European Community Institutions (tot. 2 hours)

3. The CAP implementation(tot. unit 22 hours)

3.1. The CAP operative tools: the common market organizations (CMOs) (tot. 2 hour)

3.2. The CAP funding (tot. 1 hour)

3.3. The CAP financial tools (tot. 1 hour)

3.4. The start /origin of the CAP reform (tot.  3 hours)

       3.4.1. The green Book

       3.4.2. The containments measures/(measures of control)  of  expenditure and production

       3.4.3. From Delors Plan to Mac Sharry reform, to Agenda 2000, until Fischler reform

3.5. The CMO of crop production to the eve of Mac Sharry reform (tot.1 hour)

3.6. The Mac Sharry reform and its effects (consequences) on the European and National agriculture  (tot. 2 hours)

3.7. The Agenda 2000 and its effects (consequences) on the European and National agriculture  (tot. 2 hours)

3.8. The crop production of the CMO to the eve of the Fischler reform (tot. 1 hour)

3.9. The Fischler Reform contents and its effects (tot. 3 hours)

       3.9.1. The single farm payment

       3.9.2. The conditionality

       3.9.3. The aids' modality

       3.9.4. The farm consulting

       3.9.5. The coupled payment

3.10. The new CMOs: wine, fruit and vegetables and sugar (tot. 2 hours )

3.11. The single CMO and the CAP Health check (tot. 2 hours)

3.12. The CAP recent evolution and the future 2014-2020 CAP (tot. 2 hours)

4. The EU socio-structural policy and its evolution (tot. unit 2 hours)

5. The rural development policy and its evolution (tot. unit 2 hours)

6. The quality policy of the EU agro-food products (tot. unit 2 hours)

7. The World Trade Organisation: from the Gatt to the WTO (tot. unit 2 hours)

Readings/Bibliography

The documents, necessary to the comprehension and the assimilation of the course , will be distributed by the professor in class and available on the web.

Other useful books  to improve the students know ledges :

“Politiche per lo sviluppo agricolo e la sicurezza alimentare”

A.Segrè, Carrocci editore;

 

“Politica agraria: comunitaria, nazionale, regionale”

S.Vieri, Edagricole.

Teaching methods

The course is based on class activities which include theoretic lessons and seminars held by economic experts of some particular agro-food subjects, which are important to improve and apply practically the concepts viewed in class.

Assessment methods

This course is part of the “Economy and policy crop production” integrated with “Agriculture economy of crop production”

Therefore the assessment of the course will take into account the student knowledge and capacity acquired from both the courses.

The assessment method is based on a final oral examination that will verifies the student knowledge and learning ability.

The oral examination will be based on the subjects in class and on the seminars held by the experts.

The final evaluation will take into account the knowledge acquired, the learning ability, the correct use of the vocabulary and the argumentation capacity. The final examination will last about 30 minutes.

Teaching tools

PC, Video projector, PowerPoint presentation

Office hours

See the website of Giorgio Zagnoli