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Dear friends and supporters,
Don’t forget we have a regularly updated newsticker (TTIP, organic farming, organic food nutrition, GMOs, the Allan Savory livestock debacle and antibiotics featured recently), the 2000m² project, and we are very active on both facebook and twitter. Do join in on our conversations – we’d love to hear from you!
Dr. Oliver Moore – oliver@arc2020.euCommunications ManagerLuise Körner – communication@arc2020.eu
Communications team
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TTIP:already disrupting Europe’s precautionary principle?
TTIP is allowing decision makers to put short term profits and growth ahead of long term goals of health and well-being of people and ecosystems. It is being used to iron out differences in regulations and rules between the US and EU, under the mantra of “the least trade restrictive rules work”, without due consideration of the public health, societal and environmental costs. Current work on legislation regarding Endocrine Disruptors (ED)1 and how this potentially will be undermined by TTIP is a prime example of how short term profits are being given priority over people and the environment. More:Find the detailed analysis in this post on Arc2020.
See Arc2020 Food Policy Co-ordinator Robert Pederson’s abridged version on EurActiv
See our briefing notes and all our TTIP news
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Shooting in the strawberry fields: a Greek Tragedy
“I feel shame as a Greek. This decision is inhumane, shameful and a disgrace for the greek justice“, The victim’s lawyer stated outside the court. On July 30th a Greek court chose to announce the acquittal of four farmers who shot and wounded over two dozen immigrant strawberry pickers. Among the charges the owner of the farm had been accused was human trafficking. The outrageous incident occurred last year in the strawberry growing area of Peloponnese. There 200 foreign fruit pickers protested as they have not received 6 months wages. More than 30 Bangladeshi were wounded after three foremen opened fire. Read the full report by ARC2020 here.
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Community Supported Agriculture
In partnership with our Friends of the Earth colleagues from around Europe, CAP information events, tours, farmers’ markets and more activities are being organised within our joint agroecology project. This month we featured 2 articles on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria with more to follow. CSA is built on the relationship between food producers and consumers, who share the harvest and carry the risk of crop failure as well. The main goal of CSA is local production and consumption of food and support of environmentally and socially responsible farming.
Learn more about the farmers and consumers who already work on bringing new and sustainable ways of agriculture into practice and how to get involved yourself on our website.
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Upcoming Events and Policy Dates
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CAP Greening: Ireland opts for path of least resistance
If you’d like to see just how to avoid making any significant environmental improvement, despite being compliant with the new green reformed CAP (!) take a look at this feature on Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney. In his comments to the Irish Parliament (Dáil). It truly was a masterclass in avoidance of the kind of changes citizens have been yearning for.
“The idea of greening is that Pillar 1 of the CAP – the main part of CAP, which focuses primarily on production – will have specific environmental measures built in. These measures are permanent grassland, crop diversification and ecological focus areas. So how is Ireland performing? What has the Irish Minister Simon Coveney opted for to justify single farm payments?”
Feature continues
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