Polish government’s controversial decision to shift 25% from Pillar 2 (including RDP) to Pillar 1 of the CAP, forgetting about rural development priorities. […]
With winter approaching fast, we’ve asked a farmer and a food writer to share some ideas and recipes for making the most of what’s growing this season. […]
The EU is in the process of changing its seed regulations, and that could be bad news for the small guy. […]
As people wind down towards the holidays, DGAGRI pulls a fast one […]
As of today you can vote for Syngenta, Bayer and BASF, the “bee-killers”. […]
Many NGOs walked out of the conference, accusing governments “giving in, to the interests of the dirty energy lobby”. […]
What’s the reality behind the rhetoric of the EU’s CAP and LIFE Program? […]
(Brussels, 22/11/2013) BEGINS The European Parliament held its final vote on Wednesday 20th November on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In voting as it did, Parliament has it intensified the failure to deliver what was supposed to be a fairer, simpler and greener agriculture policy for Europe. ”Business as usual has prevailed at 90%” said Benedikt Haerlin of NGO platform ARC2020.EU and Meine Landwirtschaft. “Unfortunately the role of the European Parliament had been to substantially cut back on the initial progress towards sustainability proposed by the European Commission. From 2014 to 2020 we will see at least as many farms being closed down within the European Union, organic farming will suffer financially, biodiversity will suffer even more and the role of the European Union in the world will continue to be a resource-sucker at the expense of the global poor and the environment.” Importantly, all amendments, some of which could have improved the proposals, were dropped and not voted on. This democratically questionable move occurred due to a change in the voting order of the overall EU budget […]
The EP’s final vote on the CAP intensified the failure to deliver a fairer, simpler and greener agriculture policy for Europe. […]
Fracking Companies dodgy behaviour in Romania is igniting people’s the fighting spirit […]
Join the demonstration for better food and better farming! […]
For their feature on factory farming, the magazine interviewed Meine Landwirtschaft spokesperson […]
Food campaigners accuse five international banks of raking off more than two billion pounds […]
After a week of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Friends of the Earth states some key concerns […]
As coalition partners discuss, 100,000 German citizens and counting signed a petition stating that they do not want GMO crops on German fields […]
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