With a CAP deal hanging in the balance, on June 20, viEUws hosted a live debate between Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloş and the European Parliament Agriculture Committee Chair, Paolo De Castro.
Watch the debate, hosted by Rose O’Donovan, Editor of AGRA FACTS and agriculture reporter for viEUws.
Poland’s choice for Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski’s had a tough hearing on 1st October – so tough, he’s had to answer written questions and may have to appear again on Monday. Then he may be subject to a secret ballot of the 48 MEPs who make up the Agri Committee. So who is Janusz Wojciechowski, what might he focus on, and what is the Polish impression of the MEP from the Euroskeptic ECR group? With new correspondent Igor Olech. […]
Catch crops (68%), fallow land (16.2%) and nitrogen fixing crops (11.8%) dominated ecological focus areas (EFAs) in Germany in 2015. Why is this? What influences farmers’ decisions on EFAs? One of the authors of a new peer reviewed publication on this topic, ARC2020 regular Sebastian Lackner, summarises the paper, in which he and colleagues interviewed a range of experts on the matter. […]
Public consultation opened ahead of EU conference, and UN International Year of Family Farming […]
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