Minister goes west for a stormy reception
Peter Crosskey takes a wry look at a bungling Minister […]
Peter Crosskey takes a wry look at a bungling Minister […]
The UK’s food and farming sector is reeling with shock and disbelief as “Britain’s largest farmer”, The Cooperative, has put its farms up for sale. […]
‘seed regulation’ rejected by Parliament 650 votes to 15. […]
According to a new report, the EU seed market seriously lacks diversity, yet seed lobbyists claim that there are currently 7000 small and medium-sized seed companies in the EU. […]
Here’s how to make organic farming and agroecology work better in your region or country […]
Nineteen European Member States voted against the GM 1507 Maize tabled by the European Commission. […]
23 Ag Ministers want to destroy the last of greening in the CAP. Here’s how we can stop them. […]
Of the 41 European countries studied, barely half had enough honeybees to pollinate more than 90% of their crops. […]
Berlin saw a snippeldisco, or soup disco on the 17th of January. Here’s what happened. […]
So what about the agri-food system are people fed up with? […]
Dominika Jarosz of the campaign Feed the 5000 explains her work helps fight the food waste scandal and why she will be joining in Berlin. […]
Pierre-Alain will be on stage for the demonstration this Saturday revving up the crowd. He shares a bit about his work on a recent campaign, ‘1000 Cows’, below. […]
Ireland edges closer to finalising its funding plans for its RDP […]
France is bracing for a new horse meat scandal […]
(Brussels, 12/12/2013) BEGINS We at ARC2020.eu are delighted to bring you the updated version of our CAP implementation tookit. This document will be of use to policy makers and campaigners alike. It brings information on the CAP reform process right up to date at European and member state (MS) level. Not only does our toolkit list all the basic background details and all the up-to-date processes at EU level, individual MS and their interpretation of CAP reform are also highlighted. This CAP reform process has given significantly more power to the MS to implement the CAP in their own way – our updated toolkit shows you what your MS is doing. Dedicated sections on France, Germany, Poland, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Greece have been written for this document. Individual MS attitudes and actions on internal convergence, top ups, transfers between pillars and coupled payments have also been added. CAP Implementation at national and regional level must be approved by the Commission before the end of 2013 for Rural Development Programmes (Pillar 2) and by August […]
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