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Ernährungsrat: The democratic potential of Food Policy Councils in Germany
Part 2 in democratising local food policy: we look to Germany and the democratic potential of Food Policy Councils. […]
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France | Democratising Food Policy – Tweaking The Financial Toolbox
How can a top-down tool such as France’s Territorial Food Programmes help to democratise local food policy? How does the French infrastructure compare to Germany’s Food Policy Councils? In the best case scenario, communities take food into their own hands. Part 1 of a policy analysis by the Rural Resilience project. […]
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IFOAM EU | Placing Sustainability Assessment at the Core of CAP Funding
IFOAM EU and FiBL claim that their CAP plan is “a more effective and cost-efficient” as it will integrate “sustainability assessment in the design, targeting and monitoring of policies and in payment allocation.” And this more targeted, clear, performance-orientated CAP will be accepted by “both farmers and citizens.” […]
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Bureaucracy hampering CAP funds absorption in Romania
Simplification should work for peasant farmers and not to generate fund-grabbing by the corporate sector, as Maria Rodriguez Beperet explains. […]
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Billions Spent on Rural Romania – who benefits?
EU funds will be used to consolidate holdings: that’s push small producers & peasants off the land […]