Time to ACT! Tell your Minister no pesticides in EFAs!
23 Ag Ministers want to destroy the last of greening in the CAP. Here’s how we can stop them. […]
23 Ag Ministers want to destroy the last of greening in the CAP. Here’s how we can stop them. […]
PAN, WWF, IFOAM, BirdLife, EEB & ARC2020 tell the Commission keep pesticides out of EFAs! […]
ARC2020 and other NGOs issued an open letter in the context of reforms to the DG’s advisory groups and concern of the effects of the agribusiness lobby. […]
So what about the agri-food system are people fed up with? […]
So much to look forward to, so much to do…. […]
New research adds to the body of work on the hygiene.hypothesis… […]
Just how did Northern Ireland drop from 7% to 0% modulation in just 10 days? […]
Ireland edges closer to finalising its funding plans for its RDP […]
So what happened in 2013 in the world of better food, farming, rural communities and the environment? Let’s take look back and also froward to 2014. […]
What is Romania planning to spend its Rural Development money on, and what sort of effect will this have on its countryside and environment? […]
Find out what’s happening with CAP reform implementation in your country with our updated toolkit. […]
Polish government’s controversial decision to shift 25% from Pillar 2 (including RDP) to Pillar 1 of the CAP, forgetting about rural development priorities. […]
What’s the reality behind the rhetoric of the EU’s CAP and LIFE Program? […]
(Brussels, 22/11/2013) BEGINS The European Parliament held its final vote on Wednesday 20th November on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In voting as it did, Parliament has it intensified the failure to deliver what was supposed to be a fairer, simpler and greener agriculture policy for Europe. ”Business as usual has prevailed at 90%” said Benedikt Haerlin of NGO platform ARC2020.EU and Meine Landwirtschaft. “Unfortunately the role of the European Parliament had been to substantially cut back on the initial progress towards sustainability proposed by the European Commission. From 2014 to 2020 we will see at least as many farms being closed down within the European Union, organic farming will suffer financially, biodiversity will suffer even more and the role of the European Union in the world will continue to be a resource-sucker at the expense of the global poor and the environment.” Importantly, all amendments, some of which could have improved the proposals, were dropped and not voted on. This democratically questionable move occurred due to a change in the voting order of the overall EU budget […]
The EP’s final vote on the CAP intensified the failure to deliver a fairer, simpler and greener agriculture policy for Europe. […]
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