Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Agriculture" produced 238 items.
| 1. EU approves organic label for wine | February 8, 2012 |
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Decision will allow EU producers to compete on even-footing with New World winemakers. Wine producers in the EU will be able to label their products as “organic wine”... |
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| 2. Side-stepping animal rights | February 2, 2012 |
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Strategy needs more courage and ambition. The new |
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| 3. BASF to end GM crop production for the EU | January 16, 2012 |
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German firm says hostility from consumers is the reason for the move. German chemical company BASF today (16 January) announced that it is stopping production of genetically... |
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| 4. How CAP could build a bio-based economy | November 10, 2011 |
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The EU should help farmers turn agricultural residues into a profitable resource. Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has long suffered from two chronic problems:... | |
| 5. The Iron Curtain's shadow over agricultural reform | November 4, 2011 |
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The European Commission's CAP proposals would distort competition and perpetuate an historical injustice. The EU's institutions have made many good statements and resolutions... |
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| 6. The CAP, viewed from 2020 | October 20, 2011 |
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We will look back on the latest reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy as a massive missed opportunity. The hue and cry of winners and losers will dominate debate about... | |
| 7. Will the CAP fit? | October 6, 2011 |
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The arguments over the EU's future support to farming and the countryside.
The European Commission is scheduled to approve next week (12 October) proposals to reform the... |
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| 8. Green groups hit out at CAP reform plans | September 22, 2011 |
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Claims that proposals will weaken ‘green' standards, while court is critical of EU farming support policies. Environmental campaign groups have warned that the European... |
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| 9. Poland has a chance to clean up the Baltic Sea | July 14, 2011 |
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During its EU presidency, Poland should develop an agricultural policy that helps the Baltic Sea. While the final shape of the EU's future budget and Common Agricultural... |
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| 10. Auditors say non-farmers received EU support | June 30, 2011 |
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Sports clubs, airports and campsites received farm payments. Sports clubs, airports and campsites have received money from the EU that should have gone to farmers, according... | |
| 11. EU to hold E. coli crisis meeting | June 6, 2011 |
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Agriculture ministers to meet to discuss compensation for farmers. The EU's ministers for agriculture will hold a special meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday to discuss the... |
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| 12. Stepping in other people's forests | May 19, 2011 |
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The EU may be doing more to protect its own forests, but, say campaigners, it is not doing enough to stop deforestation in other parts of the world. Environmentalists may... |
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| 13. Not fair and not green | April 28, 2011 |
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The EU's agriculture policies are missing the mark. The unnamed EU diplomat who told |
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| 14. Which way forward for Europe's rural areas? | April 20, 2011 |
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Depopulation from urban areas poses serious challenges for Europe's policymakers. The Common Agricultural Policy is not the only source of European Union funds for the... |
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| 15. MEPs to back national powers on GM bans | April 7, 2011 |
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Parliament to back greater freedom for member states to ban GM crops in the name of environmental protection National authorities should be able to prevent genetically... |
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| 16. The CAP at a crossroads | March 24, 2011 |
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Will the CAP be a policy that rewards the delivery of crucial public goods, or sink into expensive irrelevance?
In the article “Clash of visions over agricultural... |
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| 17. The Mercosur ‘threat' re-emerges | March 17, 2011 |
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Farmers in many member states unhappy at trade talks. The relaunch last May of EU trade negotiations with Mercosur – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – displeased... | |
| 18. Farmers could keep subsidies in exchange for ‘going green' | March 17, 2011 |
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Commissioners discuss ideas on CAP reform, but farmers' groups are critical of latest idea. Paying farmers to look after the environment could provide secure political... |
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| 19. View on food security left a bad taste in the mouth | February 3, 2011 |
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Why we need to discuss European agricultural reality. Valentin Zahrnt's perspective is regrettably all too common in the debate about food security (“EU food security, the... |
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| 20. Preparing for a different tomorrow | January 27, 2011 |
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The global food system will face unprecedented pressures over the next 40 years. How will Europe cope? Europe's farm policy has come a long way since 1957, when six... |
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