Abstract
After World War II, the European Union launched the Common Agricultural Policy. Since then, this programme has been adapting to the new economic and social realities that the European agricultural sector has been going through. Currently, a large part of this programme has been financed with the European Agricultural Guarantee Funds and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. Two packages of funds have been approved in recent decades: one for the 2007–2013 and another for the 2014–2020 periods. This research has had as its main objective to determine whether the Spanish regions maintain homogeneous levels of efficiency in the use of these resources in the management of agricultural programmes from a growth and employment perspective. A methodology that is frequently used by researchers in the efficiency analyses has been chosen: data envelopment analysis. Among the main conclusions obtained are that the efficiency in the management of agricultural funds is very uneven among the studied Spanish regions. Furthermore, these differences are maintained throughout the analysed periods. This study suggests changes and proposes criteria for the allocation of European resources to finance the projects presented by the Spanish regions.
Highlights
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was created with the aim of ensuring the supply of agricultural products to the European population in an environment of food shortage caused by the effects of the Second World War [1]
These objectives include competitiveness of agriculture, sustainable management of natural resources and climate action, and balanced territorial development. These objectives can be verified by applying the formula of the “integration hypothesis” of the CAP reform contained in the commission’s working documents for the distribution of rural development funds among member states. Based on this process of distribution of European funds among the Spanish regions, the objective of this research is to determine whether there is a high degree of homogeneity in the levels of efficiency achieved by agricultural projects financed by these European resources in the development of the sector
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Summary
If in previous decades there was a decided public intervention on prices and quantities to ensure supply to the people, from that date onwards, there is a considerable surplus of production that could put the European agricultural system at risk [2]. This situation originated the first great reform of the system, which is known as the McSharry reform. This reform started establishing income support for farmers through payments per hectare and head of livestock and the establishment of measures to improve agricultural structures instead of traditional production aid [3]
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