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Ironically the EU’s Common Agricultural
Policy has tended
to exasperate the problem!
A recent study carried out by the
European Nature
Heritage Fund concluded that:
’most of the EU’s agricultural subsidies
exert a negative
impact on the environment, for the
majority of payments to
farmers are not tied to any
environmental regulations’
Over 60% of the
agriculture budget’s total 44 billion Euro’s
currently go to the
arable crops sector, and these subsidies
are not tied to
environmental regulations