No majority vote for ban on bee-harming pesticides
UK and Germany not in favour of temporary ban, despite strong evidence on disastrous impact […]
UK and Germany not in favour of temporary ban, despite strong evidence on disastrous impact […]
The fallout from David Cameron’s à la carte EU membership speech is likely to divide the UK’s parliamentary voice in the crucial final round of CAP reform negotiations. The UK prime minister has done more than offend European political figures who might once, under other circumstances, have heard him out. He has effectively locked himself out of several processes at once and scored more than one own goal in domestic politics, into the bargain. This increases the opportunities to recruit MEP support for the crucial European Parliamentary vote on the CAP in March. As the head of a UK coalition government, Cameron has ridden roughshod over the Liberal Democrat (Lib Dem) parliamentarians who keep him in power. Deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is both a former MEP and former European Commission civil servant: he also speaks Dutch, Spanish, French and German. Clegg was one of the first to criticise the prime minister’s bull-in-a-china-shop performance when one of Downing Street’s worst-kept secrets finally saw the light of day. He described Cameron’s notion […]
Ahead of Cameron speech […]
Research institutions urged to reconsider their priorities and favour a whole farm system approach […]
Prince Charles on nature […]
More on UK GM plaudits […]
Public told to embrace GM crops […]
Development ministry prioritises commercial interests over small farmer and rural communitities, NGO claims […]
UK Labour party criticised for short-term outlook on EU budget plans […]
Avarage yields plunge […]
An example of local agricultural project in Oxford […]
Full-term evaluation by the Making Local Food Work programme (MLFW) highlights benefits of local food […]
Call for workshop ideas […]
Owen Paterson, former Tory shadow Minister for Agriculture to replace Spelman as head of DEFRA […]
London’s growing success […]
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