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One year anniversary of the Farm to Fork strategy
One year to the day since the Farm to Fork strategy was presented…
The first Spanish debate on the CAP 2020
Elisa Plumed's opinion piece on food reform, reflecting on future reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The EU’s Banana Prices Observatory analyzes the impact of imports
On 29th March, the first working meeting of the Community Banana and Banana Price Observatory, held in the framework of the 4th Forum of the Outermost Regions (RUP), was held in Brussels. The objective of this meeting was to measure the specific impact of banana imports from third countries on the markets of European producer countries and, if necessary, to take measures aimed at ensuring the survival of the Community crop
PAC Conference: strong funding is a priority to achieve the objectives set
One of the main conclusions of the Conference "Building the post 2020 CAP", held on 27th and 28th March by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA), is the need for the Common Agricultural Policy has a strong financial framework that allows meeting the demands of society and market challenges. A message in which the minister, Isabel García Tejerina, fully agrees, for whom, "otherwise it would be very difficult to achieve the objectives that are intended to be achieved".
Spanish irrigators defends water planning in Brussels
The National Federation of irrigators communities (FENACORE) defends in Brussels to the European authorities the second cycle of water planning to avoid a possible revocation of the plans of the Tagus and the Ebro, to those who have raised their complaints to the European Parliament arguing that do not meet Community legislation on the environment.
Let´s falling on consumer habits to increase the value of lamb meat
The Spanish Agrifood Interprofessional Organization sheep and goats (INTEROVIC), through its coordinator, Thomas Rodriguez, highlighted in Brussels (Belgium) the importance to the sheep sector innovation and, in this sense, moved during intervention the importance of acting in consumer habits to achieve increased sales and value of lamb meat. His intervention has been framed in a forum with the most representative associations of the sheep sector in the European Union to discuss the future of the sector.
Thousands of European farmers demanding fair prices for food
About 15,000 farmers and 6,000 tractors took in Brussels and…