The future common agricultural policy after 2013

The volatility of agricultural and food prices, exacerbated since 2007, has destabilised global farming which was already reeling from the WTO rules adopted after the Marrakech treaty of 1995. It thus endangers the access to food of 3 billion people, including the 85 million Europeans living below the poverty line. Furthermore, agriculture, which is once more a global strategic issue, now faces some major challenges: the feeding and health of 6.6 billion humans, undoubtedly rising to 9 billion in 2050, the exhaustion of fossil fuels, the preservation of land and natural resources (biodiversity, water quality...), climate change... To become sustainable, it needs to evolve towards organic farming, as defined by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.