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General Sites For a non-institutional view of the CAP, and a series of readable and informative essays, see The Commission’s website provides a wealth of data and analysis, although much of it is politically constrained to be fairly pro-CAP. The US government’s Agricultural Department provides even more analysis and tends to be more openly critical of the CAP; the pages of the Economic Research Service are especially informative. Every year, the OECD publishes an excellent report on the agricultural policy of all OECD members (this includes the CAP). For the latest figures and exhaustive analysis, see Critiques of the CAP Several Non-Governmental Organisations interested in world poverty are extremely anti-CAP and provide a good deal of well done studies on how the CAP impoverishes some nations. Oxfam Christian Aid Compassion in World Farming (animal rights organisation) On the other side is the UK farmers’ association, the National Farmers Union |