Regulation is a feature of a modern economy and it can serve a positive purpose.  However, when it comes to … Continue reading “Regulation and the Cost of Food”

Summary: The precautionary principle provides non-farming interest groups with a pseudo-official means of influencing policy. The result is a drift towards … Continue reading “Ploughing the Wrong Furrow”

Executive summary: By 2020 the EU is planning to increase expenditure on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by some €8billion … Continue reading “Liberating farming from the CAP”