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Articles by Olga Kikou

Olga Kikou
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. […]

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    July 5, 2022
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    July 4, 2022
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    June 30, 2022
  • Commission Adopts Regulation to Half Pesticide Use by 2030 – But More Work Needed
    June 24, 2022
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    June 22, 2022
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    June 21, 2022
  • CAP Plans in Negotiations: What is the Substance?
    June 20, 2022
  • Op-Ed | Europe Eats the World
    June 18, 2022
  • Denmark | Re-Scaling the Rural
    June 16, 2022
  • Wallonia’s Observation Letter: A plan that fails to address climate and biodiversity crises
    June 15, 2022
  • The Good Food Good Farming Pesticide Check-up
    June 14, 2022
  • Letter From The Farm | Cresting the Peaks of Constant Change
    June 10, 2022
  • Reversing Rule and Exception – Transformative New Integrated Policy for Rural Agri & Food presented in European Parliament 
    June 10, 2022
  • First look – Rural Europe Takes Action e-book
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  • Rural Europe Takes Action | Creative Municipalities
    June 3, 2022
  • Rural Europe Takes Action | Much More Than Our Daily Bread
    June 1, 2022
  • Rural Europe Takes Action | For Resilience and Peace – Political Action Now!
    May 31, 2022
  • CAP Strategic Plans and Food Security: Fallow Lands, Feeds, and Transitioning the Livestock Industry
    May 30, 2022
  • Rural Europe Takes Action – Book Launch and Draft EU-Regulation
    May 30, 2022
  • France | Growing Vegetables, Seeding Values – Part 2
    May 27, 2022
  • France, Food Sovereignty and Feed(ing the World)
    May 27, 2022
  • Diversifying Europe’s Rural Economy | SHERPA
    May 25, 2022
  • Ukraine | the Green Road of Ecovillages – Communities that Protect
    May 23, 2022
  • Ukraine | Two Farmers near the Frontline
    May 23, 2022
  • EU Organic Action Plan – Decoding Texts of Supposed Support
    May 20, 2022
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