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HomeAuthorsOlga Kikou

Articles by Olga Kikou

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About Olga Kikou

Olga Kikou is the European Affairs Manager for Compassion in World Farming, an international organization working on farm animal welfare and sustainable food & farming policies. She is currently involved in lobbying the EU institutions, promoting campaigns at EU level, engaging with civil society organizations and other stakeholders to develop joint policy strategies to bring an end to factory farming.

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#AfterCAP | COPA Need to Move Beyond “Productivist Paradigm”

December 20, 2016 Olga Kikou

By embracing the productivist paradigm of producing more food to feed a rapidly growing population, Copa Cogeca’s vision for the future CAP ensures that crises in EU’s agriculture sector will persist in the future, argues Olga Kikou. […]

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#AfterCAP | Towards an Integrated Food & Farming Policy with an Animal Welfare Focus

November 28, 2016 Olga Kikou

Livestock plays a central role in the CAP, but there are numerous areas of concern. While the public are interested in better animal welfare standards, policies lead to overproduction of grain and an abundance of cheap livestock products with all the sustainability issues this carries. […]

CAP Reform 2027

EU’s new blueprint for agriculture and food: what’s coming for agrifood policy for the next years? Find our continuous analysis here.

Seeds4All

The Seeds4All project wants to amplify voices and connect people involved in agroecological seed production at all levels. Find out more.

This Month’s Articles

Missed an article of ours? Or would like to read it again? Find all our articles from this month here. Or browse through our chronological archive that stores all articles here.

Rural Resilience

Co-constructing proposals rooted in actions on the ground: Visit the project page.

Letter From The Farm

Who grows the food we eat? Who sows the seeds, tends the soil, picks the fruits and harvests the carrots? At ARC, we want to put faces to our food. Find all letters here.

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