An evaluation of the CAP impact: A discrete policy mix analysis

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the main pillars in constructing the European project. Since 1962, the CAP has evolved from its traditional role of supporting farmers? livelihood and improving agricultural productivity to embrace the goal of balanced territorial development. In the process, the CAP has become a policy with many different instruments allowing MS, farmers and regions to adopt distinct implementation models. This report explores a rich data set on disaggregated CAP payments and regional characteristics to evaluate the CAP as a mix of policies at the EU level. The project aims to showcase the feasibility and value-added of quantitative approaches able to infer causality while considering the diversity of measures deployed in rural areas