Abstract
This article reviews how the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) currently addresses pastoralists' needs in Europe, and could further contribute to sustainable management of pastoral areas. The CAP provides a set of financial subsidies to farmers in the form of market, income and rural development support. We first present a brief overview of the CAP, its basic principles, the available instruments, recent developments and finally discuss the future challenges and potentials for pastoralists in the European Union.
Highlights
This article reviews how the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) currently addresses pastoralists’ needs in Europe, and could further contribute to sustainable management of pastoral areas
If the grassland becomes degraded or is converted to cropland, it loses some of its capacity to store this carbon (FAO 2006,; WB, 2009)
Pastoral resource management holds the potential to contribute to carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection and soil and water conservation by helping to maintain the grasslands - as recognised by three UN Environmental Conventions biodiversity, desertification and climate change
Summary
This article reviews how the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) currently addresses pastoralists’ needs in Europe, and could further contribute to sustainable management of pastoral areas. Extensive livestock systems and pastoralism represent increasingly interesting practices for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the policy of the European Commission that promotes sustainable agriculture in a global environment through a number of support programmes as well as subsidy schemes.
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