SET ASIDE SCRAPPED BY EU MINISTERS CONCERNED ABOUT FOOD PRICES AND SHORTAGES
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN a symbolically significant move indicating a major shift in the global food trade, the European Union (EU) has now permanently abolished set aside, the Common Agricultural System that ordered farmers to leave 10% of their land fallow and paid them for doing it. The aim of the system - mandatory from 1992 - was reducing over-production of EU foodstuffs, preventing the infamous grain mountains and milk lakes of the 1970s and 1980s. But now with global food shortages pushing up prices worldwide, set aside has become an anachronism and the EU's ...
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