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Tweets of the Week – 10/2021
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Articles by ARC
Main stories
CAP Strategic Plans: Support to High-Nature-Value Farming in Bulgaria
Bulgaria has lost around 40% of its High Nature Value farmlands since 2007. Rather than having an in-depth analysis of the reasons behind this negative trend, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed deletion of all existing support in breach of the ‘no backsliding principle’ for the CAP Strategic plans. […]
Main stories
Women Used To Dominate The Beer Industry – Until The Witch Accusations Started Pouring In
For much of history brewing beer was primarily women’s work. However, in the Early Modern period accusations of witchcraft were levelled against female brewers to make way for their male counterparts. Since then the beer industry remains dominated by men. As Laken Brooks sets out, it doesn’t have to stay that way. […]
Latest from EU Member States
Food Sovereignty, Romania and the Rising Far-Right
The many challenges faced by Eco Ruralis and the food sovereignty movement in Romania are now compounded by the presence of the far-right in parliament. A recent study by Anna Hajdu and Natalia Mamonova discusses obstacles and opportunities. […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 9/2021
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The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 8/2021
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The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 7/2021
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Main stories
European Committee of the Regions Adopts Opinion on Agroecology
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has adopted an opinion on agroecology suggesting a comprehensive set of measures to foster agroecology in the EU. The opinion highlights problems with European agriculture, including global warming, soil degradation, biodiversity destruction, as well as needs – protecting natural resources, reducing GHG emissions, fostering biodiversity and moving from extraction to circularity. […]
Latest from Brussels
CAP Reform | Broad Coalition Demands Social Conditionality For A Fairer CAP
Social conditionality must be part of the next CAP reform, says an open letter to the co-legislators. Signed by a broad coalition of over 100 organisations, including ARC2020, the letter presents a united front for social justice to the trilogue negotiations. […]
Rural Resilience
Agroécologie | Une réponse aux défis
L’agroécologie est une réponse aux défis environnementaux, sociaux et territoriaux de l’agriculture européenne et doit orienter la nouvelle PAC, insiste Guillaume Cros, rapporteur du Comité européen des Régions sur l’agroécologie et la réforme PAC. […]
Latest from Brussels
Commission’s Recommendations to CAP Strategic Plans: Glitters or Gold?
While the co-legislators and the trilogue negotiations at EU level continue to derail the future CAP away from the necessary reforms, in December 2020, the European Commission issued EU-wide and 27 country-specific Staff Working Documents providing recommendations directed to the Member States in charge of designing the future National CAP Strategic Plans. […]
Events
Join Green Farming Now – All Day Web Event 17th February
With CAP activities hotting up – in trilogue and at member state level – our friends in Good Food Good Farming have, with Birdlife Europe, organised an agri-food policy event for 17th February. The need for transformation, the science and evidence behind why and how CAP isn’t working, along with some practical suggestions for how to communicate and mobilise around CAP issues form the core elements of this exciting all-day event. […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 6/2021
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Latest from Brussels
Download New Report on CAP – Trilogues & Strategic Plans
“Integration between the CAP reform and the European Green Deal is poor or unrealised.” That’s according to a new policy analysis, written by ARC2020’s analyst Matteo Metta and Agricultural Economist Dr. Sebastian Lakner. Commissioned by MEP Martin Hausling (Greens/EFA) this timely report pours cold water over many of the claims for improved environmental performance in the emerging CAP, which is currently in trilogues. A number of CAP solutions are proposed. […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 5/2021
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