The increased demand for biofuels is one of the main factors contributing to the current food price volatility and is diverting farmland away from food production in food insecure regions.
On 12 October 2011, the European Commission presented its proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union for the years 2014–2020. This represents a further step towards reform of what is so far the only fully common policy area of the EU.
A recent verdict from the Court of Justice of the European Union draw attention to the real difficulties of co-existence between genetically modified and non-modified products.
12 October is the date everyone has been waiting for, the day when the Commission will set before the Council its proposals for the reform of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy). These proposals will be analysed, weighed up and inevitably criticised by every interested group, above all farmers and ecologists.
“With one hand we give Africa a few crumbs and with the other we remove the loaf” says Angel Olaran, missionary in Ethiopia.
160,000 cooperatives in Europe employ 5.4 million Europeans. The “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan” seems to have been sidelined.
The increased demand for biofuels is one of the main factors contributing to the current food price volatility and is diverting farmland away from food production in food insecure regions.
On 12 October 2011, the European Commission presented its proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union for the years 2014–2020. This represents a further step towards reform of what is so far the only fully common policy area of the EU.
A recent verdict from the Court of Justice of the European Union draw attention to the real difficulties of co-existence between genetically modified and non-modified products.
12 October is the date everyone has been waiting for, the day when the Commission will set before the Council its proposals for the reform of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy). These proposals will be analysed, weighed up and inevitably criticised by every interested group, above all farmers and ecologists.