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ARC2020’s reaction to the EU Commission’s legislative proposals for the future CAP

May 3, 2012 ARC

ARC2020 calls for a paradigm shift in agriculture and a rural renaissance. This vision is comprehensively outlined in our “Communication from Civil Society to the European Union Institutions” published in November 2010. The Communication was the result of an extensive and inclusive consultation of all our members at that time, and remains the definitive position paper. This most recent paper draws on the ARC Communication to provide a direct response to the legislative proposals for the CAP issued by the EU Commission in October 2011. The paper does not speak on behalf of the ARC members, it simply provides a stand-point that organisations and citizens can use for their own work and campaigns. While the legislative proposals offer some improvements to the status quo, ARC sees a need for a more radical overhaul of the current policy to ensure a truly sustainable future for citizens in Europe and worldwide. This is outlined below, in three parts: A. Direct Payments and Cross Compliance (Pillar 1 – EAGF) B. Food Security, Fair Trade and Aid, Food Supply […]

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ARC NEWSFLASH February 2012

April 5, 2012 ARC

ARC NEWSFLASH FEBRUARY 2012 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear friends and supporters of ARC2020 Welcome to the latest issue of the ARC NEWSFLASH!  This month has seen a number of new features for our website. Firstly, your organisation can now become a Friend of the ARC. Friends of the ARC are organisations who may not have signed our Communication, but are interested or engaged in a profound reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, support the work of ARC and want to help us build a strong voice. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to add your organisation to the list and embark on the ARC! Secondly, we have started developing a series of pages known as Voices for Change…you can read more on this below. Finally, we also have a new video on our homepage: check it out! ARC has welcomed a number of guests bloggers on our site this month, such as this piece from BirdLife Europe. We have also provided articles for others, see for example an article about our correspondents posted on the European Social Journalism website. If you want […]

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January 2012 NEWSFLASH

March 7, 2012 ARC

Dear friends of the ARC!Happy new year to you all and welcome to the January issue of the ARC NEWSFLASH! ARC has started the new year with a bang. Our highlight was hosting a debate with Dacian Cioloş and a number of civil society organisations on January 20th in Berlin. The lively question and answer session which ensued gave different groups a chance to raise their concerns directly with the EU Agriculture Commissioner.Encouraged by the constructive debate, the Commissioner announced that he will organise a conference with civil society in July this year in Brussels to continue the dialogue. The following day (still in Berlin), members and organisations from the ARC network attended the ‘Wir haben es Satt‘ demonstration which saw a crowd of 23,000 consumers, farmers, beekeepers, environmental and animal rights activists,and developmental groups gather in front of Germany’s government offices to demand an end to industrial farming practices.January was also the 50th anniversary of the CAP. On 23rd January, ARC issued a press release with our signatories, Friends of the Earth Europe and IFOAM EU Group. After 50 years of support for a failing system, we called upon […]