Newsflash

ARC NEWSFLASH NOVEMBER 2011

Dear friends of a sustainable CAP reform and a rural renaissance in EuropeWelcome to the new ARC Newsflash! As decision making and debate on the CAP reform is now shifting to the national level, it is vital that we keep up to date with what ministers and Members of the European Parliament are saying – in Brussels and at home. From now on, our newsletter will be delivered once a month, and contain an overview of developments in Brussels, mini-reports on key meetings, details of forthcoming events, both public and policy-related, and a special feature from the ARC network. Your feedback is welcome to make it as useful as possible for all of you. We are also keen to hear your comments on the new arc2020.eu website launched today!!! You can enter them directly in the open forum (a new space where we will initiate discussions around the CAP reform – your suggestions welcome!) or send them directly to the new ARC Communications team. In my new role as website editor, I now have the […]

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Recent updates

–Tools for understanding the issues

 INTERACTIVE MATERIAL Milch Macht Mensch – European Milk Board Meine Wahl – Meine Landwirtschaft  CAP IT! (game) – Groupe de Bruges E-Learning Course on the Common Agricultural Policy – Groupe de Bruges   WRITTEN GUIDES Guide to the Common Agricultural Policy – Group PAC 2013 References for the Fact sheets on the CAP – European Environmental Bureau (EEB) Steckbrief: Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik der EU ab 2014 (in German) – DNR, EU-Koordination     VIDEOS and FILMS Pig Business Raising Resistance Seeds of Freedom Why we need a green reform of the CAP now – European Environmental Bureau (EEB) STOLEN LAND STOLEN FUTURE – Inspired by an APRODEV report on landgrabbing in Cambodia The missing option…Food Sovereignty – Food Sov CAP Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? – Food MythBusters          

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Recent updates

–Civil society publications

ON THE CAP APRODEV – CAP Statement (February 2013) APRODEV – Crop Rotation in the CAP reform: Relevance of WTO constraints, benefits and control (February 2013) APRODEV, Friends of the Earth Europe, IFOAM EU Group and Pesticide Action Group – Crop Rotation: Benefitting farmers, the environment and the economy (July 2012) Arbeitsgruppe Landwirtschaft und Ernährung im Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung: Vorschläge zur Reform der EU-Agrarpolitik müssen die Probleme aus der industriellen Tierhaltung angehen (June 2012) EU agricultural policy reform proposals must address the problems arising from industrial livestock production EU BirdLife partners – A Strong Rural Development Policy: The key to unlocking the CAP’s green potential (June 2012) BirdLife / EEB / EFNCP / IFOAM / WWF – Proposal for a new EU Common Agricultural Policy BirdLife / EEB / EFNCP / IFOAM / WWF – Common briefing following discussions in the Council on Greening of the CAP  (June 2012) CONCORD – The Future of the European Common Agricultural Policy and Development The Council for British Archaeology – Crunch Time for CAP ELARD – Position on […]

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Umbrella Organisations

Compassion in World Farming   www.civilscape.eu     Demeter International     Eating City   ECOVAST-European Council for the Village and Small Town       EuroGites – European Federation of Rural Tourism     EuroNatur   European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism         European LEADER Association for Rural Development – ELARD   European Milk Board (EMB)     European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium (EPHAC)       Forum Synergies       Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE)     Groupe de Bruges       IFOAM EU Group     International Network URGENCI       Nexus Foundation       Partnership for Rural Europe (PREPARE)       Pesticide Action Network Europe         Save Our Seeds     Slow Food     TRINET     ↑ Top

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ARC Network members across Europe

If you haven’t already, click HERE to join today!   Albania  Mountain Area Development Agency (MADA)   Austria Arche Noah     Austrian Green Farmers Association   IG-Milch     Naturschutzbund Österreich     ÖAR Regionalberatung   Weideverein Ramsargebiet Lafnitztal       Verein für Naturnahe Landwirtschaft AUNIWAUNDN Belgium   GAIA – Belgian Animal Rights Organisation     Milcherzeuger Interessengemeinschaft (MIG)       Wervel (Werkgroep voor een rechtvaardige en verantwoorde landbouw)         Bulgaria   Environmental Organization Rhodope     FORA Community Development Foundation     Za Zemiata       Cyprus   Friends of the Earth Cyprus     Czech Republic Hnutí Duha – Friends of the Earth Czech Republic     Centrum pro komunitni praci stredni Morava     Narodni observator venkova     National LAG Network of the Czech Republic       Estonia Estonian Council of Environmental NGO’s’ (EKO)     Estonian Village Movement Kodukant     France   Association des producteurs de lait indépendants (APLI)   Association Geyser     Bergerie de Villarceaux     CELAVAR   […]