Alan Matthews on the Current CAP Process | Part 1
Alan Matthews runs the CAPreform.eu blog, one of the best and most consistent sources of up to date, detailed analysis of all things CAP. Here we present part one from an interview between our own...
View ArticleAlan Matthews on the Current CAP process in Ireland
In this second of a two part series with Alan Matthews, we discuss his home country of Ireland and CAP. Oliver Moore speaks with Matthews on Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions; its increasing herd...
View ArticleCommission’s Dodgy Calculations Improve CAP’s Climate Impact
The "Green Deal" Commission promises big spending on climate. If climate markers are to be believed, the current CAP accounts for 22% of the EU's climate spending. The post-2020 CAP is poised to take...
View ArticleReviewing Ecological Focus Areas: A Cross Pollination of Ideas
Insect pollinators continue to decline across Europe despite the Common Agricultural Policy’s increased focus on environmental protection. In response, a group of experts are calling for the improved...
View ArticleThe CAP and Climate Ambition – Myth vs Reality
CAP supposedly is climate ambitious, but it fails to really deliver. So what could be done differently? Joost de Jong of the Dutch Transition Coalition of Food Systems gives us some suggestions. [...]...
View ArticleFor the Sake of Nature and the Climate, Europe must not CAP its Ambitions
The European Commission continues to describe the Common Agricultural Policy as “ambitious”, yet its own evaluation of the CAP’s impact reveals that the farm subsidy scheme is inflicting massive damage...
View ArticleCAP Transitional Regulation – Running to Stand Still
Some things move fast while others can seemingly be delayed indefinitely. And sometimes, as if by magic, both can happen at one and the same time. So it is with the CAP transitional regulation, where...
View ArticleCAP | Billions Spent on Biodiversity with Little Impact – Auditors
The EU has funnelled €66 billion into farmland biodiversity since 2014 – and has little to show for it. That’s the conclusion of a special report released on Friday by the European Court of Auditors....
View ArticleFood Security Communication – some key aspects
A key EU Commission Food Security Communication has been circulating, which outlines some emergency measures the EU Commission proposes to in part deal with the food crises stemming from the war in...
View ArticleNitrogen – Just Fix it! CAP’s Nature & Rotation Rules Under Threat
Crop rotations and space for nature are again under threat, as pressure mounts on basic conditionality in the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Under the pretext of the impact of the War in...
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