A paper circulated by the Spanish presidency has argued for keeping a strong arsenal of market support measures within the CAP. The paper includes a series of graphs showing the volatility of EU and world food commodity prices, even before the 2007/2008 price spikes.
It is argued that a strong budget is needed to support such measures. Among those specifically mentioned are intervention buying, private storage aids and export refunds. It is evident that the perceived food security crisis is breathing new life into policy instruments that seemed to be on the way to extinction, encouraging those who hope for a 'business as usual' model for the future of the CAP.
The paper does mention earnings and incomes insurance, but does not back the idea pending assessments of the effectiveness of such a tool and its WTO compatibility.
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