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The Disposal of European Community Food Surpluses
Author(s) -
Moyer H. Wayne
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1992.tb00171.x
Subject(s) - subsidy , business , international trade , european community , food aid , international economics , food market , food products , economic policy , economics , food security , agriculture , market economy , food science , geography , chemistry , archaeology
Since, at its inception, the European Community (EC) was highly dependent on food imports, EC institutions were not designed to facilitate overseas market development for food exports. As time passed, the EC has become much more self‐sufficient in food, generating large surpluses in cereals and dairy products. Market development has never been an official EC policy goal, but there is evidence that the EC has used food aid to encourage Third World countries to increase food imports from Europe. Evidence also exists that the Community has used export subsidies as a means of competing for an increased share of promising international markets, though this effort has not been unambiguously successful.