The European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) are supporting a new website lobbying for reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), ‘Reform the CAP'.

The site is organised according to strategies, actors and issues, addressing respectively how the CAP can be reformed, who the stakeholders are and how to answer difficult questions about the policy. In this latter section, subsidies provided under the CAP are summarized and their perverse effects are discussed. The content is designed to be accessible to people with little knowledge about the subject, with all arguments explained in clear and simple language, backed up with links or references to studies from a wide range of institutions.

The site also gives recommendations for users who want to take grass-roots action and outlines several visions for how the CAP should look in 2013 and beyond. This includes a ‘Declaration by a Group of Leading Agricultural Economists', expressing its opposition to the CAP, with one initial signatory from each European member State. The Declaration is open for users of the website to add their names in support.

‘Reform the CAP' welcomes users to send it CAP-related studies. It is currently available in English only but intends to offer translations into French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish.

To visit the site, click here.