Business Area C – Agricultural Performance Sample Clauses

Business Area C – Agricultural Performance.  To contribute to enhancing the competitiveness and resilience of the farming sector so that it is able to rise to the challenges and opportunities of the future, helping to ensure a secure, environmentally sustainable and healthy supply of food.  To support work informing the reform of the CAP so that it delivers good value for taxpayers and consumers and promotes a viable, competitive and resilient farming sector which is responsive to market signals, sensitive to the environment and better able to compete in global markets.  To support the agriculture sector to ensure that market failures are recognised and addressed appropriately and that any barriers to improved competitiveness and resilience are understood and tackled as necessary so that the sector is not impeded in acquiring the resources and skills that it needs to compete effectively.  To contribute to a greater understanding of the links between the economic and environmental performance at the farm level and the scope for exploiting any synergies and reducing any tensions between the two.