At the heart of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their successors, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is the commitment to reduce and ultimately eradicate extreme poverty in all its forms. While extreme poverty can be measured in different ways, hunger is certainly one of its cruellest manifestations. The first MDG set the target of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger between 1990 and 2015 and the SDG’s headline target is the ending of hunger by 2030.This article attempts to look back at the role European Union (EU)’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) may have played towards the MDG target and to look forward at the role it might play towards the SDG target, investigating, in particular, whether or not the recent focus on policy coherence for development at the EU level is likely to position the CAP as a force for good for the attainment of SDGs.
Journal of World Trade