Resilience and competitiveness

Improving farm profitability and resilience, and ensuring the economic security of their farmers and ranchers, are priority objectives of the CAP . To help achieve these goals, the CAP Network promotes actions that help agricultural holdings—especially small and medium-sized ones—gain viability and adaptability, and increase their technical and productive capabilities.

Resilience and competitiveness are, moreover, mutually reinforcing qualities. Improving the former—with measures such as CAP aid, which help secure incomes and offset potential initial constraints—allows smaller producers to also become competitive. Improving the latter—with greater professionalization and training, greater independence, and greater negotiating, technical, and financial capacity—guarantees the solidity and economic profitability of farms.