EU-Ukraine relations Archives - Agricultural and Rural Convention

Food Security: Are the CAP Strategic Plans up to the Task?

March 22, 2022 Mathieu Willard

Soaring grain prices, alongside gas, oil, fertilizers and pesticides, have sparked an unexpected debate on food production in the EU. A dependent and completely overexposed agricultural system has brought with it fear of food insecurity. In this article, we explore the tools that the commission is using to assess the potential of CAP Strategic Plans in reaching food security and propose our own analyses. […]

Ukraine’s Grain – Breadbasket for Oligarchs?

April 7, 2016 Thies Julius Lorenzen

Ukraine’s is in the news again after the Dutch vote against a free trade agreement between the EU and that state. But what do we know about its agricultural sector? Well, its booming. However, questions are being raised as to whom this new agrarian growth is actually benefiting; the rural population or established farming corporations? […]