The Society for Territorial and Environmental Prosperity (STEP) believes that Bulgaria’s CAP Strategic Plan must be corrected in order to be in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal, the EU’s Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategy. In this article, it highlights essential changes to be made, from targets and monitoring to measuring coherence and consistency. […]
Magdalene Trapp and Sebastian Lakner simulated the potential effects of a CAP reform more oriented towards environment and biodiversity, in Bulgaria. They tested six scenarios on eight farm types, and analysed the income impact for farmers. So what did they find? […]
Magdalene Trapp and Sebastian Lakner took an in-depth look into the agricultural sector, the environment and CAP implementation in Bulgaria. Farmers, experts and stakeholders were interviewed in March 2018, to get insights into the specific developments of Bulgarian agriculture. […]
Our most environmentally valuable farmland is condemned to a slow death by a combination of EU bureaucracy and national decisions. CAP’s so called greening ties up farmers in bureaucracy, uses valuable public money and still fails to protect nature or the incomes of farmers in marginalised areas adequately. There are however solutions. […]
A combination of objective reality and strident direct action has seen fracking fade into oblivion in much of Eastern Europe. Good news for the rural areas where much of this would have occurred. […]
Another way to do food is possible. And its here. Friends of the Earth Europe’s “Eating from the Farm – the social, environmental, and economic benefits of local food systems” show us inspirational examples of where you can shake the hand that feeds you, all around Europe. This new publication explores the many myriad benefits of short food supply chains, and how they function in few countries in the EU. It “features five case studies which illustrate different ways in which communities are finding more sustainable ways to produce and consume food with benefits for all” FOEE say about the publication . They continue “The methods vary, but the outcomes are the same: control of the food system is being taken back by small-scale, sustainable farms and food enterprises from large-scale industrial businesses that dominate the market today putting profit ahead of well being for people and planet.” The milestone of more urban than rural dwellers reached globally as long ago as 2007. This, coupled with a the twin demands of the sustainable use of resources and […]
In part II of our report on organic farming in Bulgaria, the ‘Organic Bulgaria’-Project takes a closer look at the role of the State and the EU subsidies. […]
Organic farming in Bulgaria is a new phenomenon within the national policy and agri-food industry. […]
In Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Hungary, people are organising against TTIP, as Derek Freitas of Eco Ruralis explains […]
How do western farms treat eastern labour? Appallingly, it seems. […]
How have the European Union’s newest members protected its land? Have land moratoriums worked? […]
Nationalist party Ataka succeeds in extending moratorium on selling land to foreign citizens and legal entities until 2020 […]
UK National Farmers’ Union warned of ‘long term damage’ to its membership when the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Scheme is shut down […]
Late implementation of the Welfare of Laying Hens Directive […]
ARC interviews General Secretary оf the Bulgarian Association of Agricultural Producers (BAAP) […]
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