Vulnerable farmers could be protected by direct income support, as they are in America and Europe, rather than with price supports that punish consumers.

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CAP's cost by bringing support prices closer to (lower) world levels, eliminating most food surpluses and making up the difference with direct income support to farmers.

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Giving evidence to the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee on 18 November 2010 he said the system of direct payments to farmers would be made fairer with a new basic income support to provide a uniform level of aid.

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