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UPA and COAG highlight 2016 as year of high production but low agricultural prices

4 de January de 2017

In its usual year-end balance sheet, the agricultural organizations COAG and UPA have agreed to value 2016 as a year that has been characterized by a significant increase in production (which has grown in value to € 46.487 billion), as opposed to agricultural prices, which have been experiencing a general fall that COAG estimates at 4% and which, according to UPA, is the main cause, together with the inaction and lack of support from the political institutions, the coming economic choke suffering from food producers in Spain.

Joan Mir: “innovation is the differentiating element that makes companies excellent”

27 de December de 2016

The cooperative group Anecoop has been commemorating, throughout 2016, 40 years of growth, evolution and commercial expansion, thanks to its constant commitment to innovation and the adaptation to the needs of the consumer, making quality and food safety, the respect for the environment, social economy and the promotion of healthy eating, its main distinguishing features. From this and many other issues, we spoke at ECA with its director general, Joan Mir.

Manel Simon: “China is a great opportunity if you work with rigor and prudence”

15 de October de 2016

The production of fresh fruit is one of the pillars for the internationalization of Catalan agri-food sector, whose autonomous region lies between the main producing areas of fresh fruit in Europe, holding fourth place in world production of pear and twentieth that of Apple. With Manel Simon, CEO of the Business Association of Fruit of Catalonia (Afrucat) we talk about issues that concern the future of the sector as the TTIP, exports to third countries or the potential of the Chinese market.

23 points on the TTIP

20 de June de 2016

In the following opinion piece, Tomas Garcia Azcarate, researcher at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), raises 23 points of reflection on the Transatlantic Trade Agreement and Investment (TTIP), for free trade between the European Union and the United States.

EU: The beef cattle seeks to curb the crisis

20 de May de 2016

The most representative European associations of beef cattle manifest the serious situation of crisis in the beef in some Member States of the EU and warn of possible degradation of the situation in the second half of 2016 unless the EU takes place decisive action to correct critical aspects of beef cattle stocks. They add that before this, the adoption of any multilateral trade agreement is totally suicidal and propose to Brussels a series of actions to avoid greater evils.

Spain: AICA, a stronghold of the food chain

6 de May de 2016

Information Agency and Food Control (AICA) works to serve the whole sector to ensure compliance with the law of the food chain, a pioneer in the European Union standard and an example to follow by other Member States. Spain is a leader in Europe in regulation and monitoring of the food chain.

Leaked TTIP negotiations

6 de May de 2016

The latest leaks on the opaque process of negotiations on the EU-US Transatlantic Agreement confirm the dangers to the European model of agriculture and food

TTIP: Livestock EU clears no future in negotiation

25 de April de 2016

The next rounds of negotiations between the European Union and the United States to sign the Transatlantic Agreement for Trade and Investment (TTIP by its acronym in English) will mark the future of the European livestock sector. The initial approach of both delegations is to keep their livestock production regulations.