Abstract
The paper is an attempt of presenting selection of social sustainability indicators impacted by EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) direct payments (DP) system. The concept of sustainability has spread worldwide to many policy instruments, including the CAP. Since 2003 reform (Fischler reform) the integration of the sustainability into the CAP led a move towards new goals for economic, social and environmental sustainability in all CAP measures, including direct payment (DP) system. Agriculture without farmers would not be possible, therefore the social dimension of sustainability, which combines economic and environmental dimensions, is one most important, particularly sensitive and severely affected. The aim of this paper is to identify how the DP system contributed to ensuring social sustainability. To this end, the task of this paper is to define social sustainability dimension indicators impacted by CAP DP system.
JEL classification: Q12, Q18, A13.
Volkov, A. 2018. Defining indicators impacting social dimension of sustainability by CAP direct payments system, In 5th European Interdisciplinary Forum 2017 EIF Drivers for Progress in the Global Society Vilnius (Lithuania). Bologna ISBN 978-88-87729-47-4 p. 103-110 [Conference proceedings].