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Positions: Speaking at the conference, Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU's agriculture and rural development  commissioner, said: "We agree that we must set objectives for the CAP and not let policy be driven purely by budgetary questions. If you ever read ...
May 28, 2012 at 18:09 | Source: EurActiv.com
The proposed reforms are "all about freeing our farmers to meet growing demand and respond quickly to what the market is telling them," EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said in a 20 May press statement announcing the plans.
May 28, 2012 at 18:09 | Source: EurActiv.com
In Bulgaria, Poland and the EU's other, newer member nations in eastern Europe ... "We need to introduce measures that consider the environmental impact of the agriculture policies we are implementing," said Gregory. The discovery of the ...
May 25, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: The Guardian
agriculture campaigner at the EEB. "Under the pretext of simplification, the Council would not only fail to justify why such vast sums of EU money are been spent under the CAP at a time when governments around Europe are forced to make painful ...
May 17, 2012 at 13:43 | Source: Environmental News Network
What is striking when you compare Europe's policies on agriculture, monetary union, and climate change is the similarity of the way the EU keeps bolting on patches and extra wiring to try to fix problems created by its own solutions. Over the last five ...
May 14, 2012 at 06:37 | Source: CNBC
However, small and medium enterprises and agriculture are being left behind as imports have risen by 4%. Analysts predict that after fifteen years of the FTAs with the US and EU, agriculture and fishery in South Korea will lose over $1 billion a year due ...
May 26, 2012 at 18:33 | Source: Presstv
Farm output in the 27 EU countries is second only to China, the UN Food & Agriculture Organization estimates. Production climbed to $488 billion last year from $446.6 billion in 2010, according to Eurostat. The statistics office in December ...
May 27, 2012 at 07:04 | Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
The EU will actively support the New Alliance and ensure that all new initiatives benefit primarily small farmers and women." The New Alliance will promote private sector investments in agriculture by improving the business environment and explore ways to ...
May 18, 2012 at 17:02 | Source: YAHOO!
The case, which also involves the former incarnation of Dutch grains firm Codrico, centers on former EU agriculture department official Karel Brus, who is accused of passing confidential information about EU export subsidy applications.
May 10, 2012 at 15:46 | Source: Reuters Canada
In 2008 France banned MON810, but a French court overturned the ban last year. “GM maize MON810 is [authorized] for cultivation in the EU so a member state cannot ban it indefinitely,” explained Stephen Pagani, a spokesman for the Food Safety Authority.
May 21, 2012 at 23:54 | Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch