Posts:
- Why are we so lousy at measuring farmers’ incomes?
- Production effects of agri-environmental programmes
- Inside the echo-chamber
- Carbon efficiency and trade policy
- BirdLife takes aim at Lyon
- The worst case scenario examined
- The future of direct payments
- Which member states pay for wasteful farm income support?
- The historic roots of agricultural protectionism in Europe
- A three pillar CAP?
- A tale of two visions
- The limits of (evaluating) rural development policies
- The development angle
- 10 May: Sugar is sweeter
- Who will guard the guardians?
- EU boosts farm subsidy millionaires by more than 20 per cent in 2009
- 15 April: Ciolos wants to hear from YOU!
- How much is enough?
- EP draft report: Whereas all this is nonsense
- Poll Shock: Europe loves the CAP!
- The Accidental Farmer: Sarkozy’s War
- EP own-initiative report on the post-2013 CAP
- Sarkozy and Cameron on collision course?
- CAP Reform Conversations: Ariel Brunner, BirdLife International
- Voters punish Sarkozy, Le Maire stays on
- How can direct payments be justified after 2013?
- Crystal ball gazing: Scenar II study on the effects of CAP reform
- 22 March: Hey, big spender
- DG Agri study: Don’t be afraid of liberalization
- OECD research on the CAP
- 12 March: Sarko steals the headlines
- The Socialist Revolution
- Sarkozy offers a deal on CAP reform
- 5 March: The circus comes to town
- New Danish farms minister in subsidy storm
- Notes from an Accidental Farmer: Olives
- CAP Reform Conversations: Paolo De Castro MEP
- NMS farm ministers flex their muscles
- CAP support levels reach new high
- Another day, another declaration
- Does the CAP fit?
- Le Monde debates the CAP
- German call for reform of CAP payments
- ELO and BirdLife fire the starting gun
- The BirdLife-ELO escapade
- Ciolos confirmation hearing poor reflection on the Parliament
- What does co-decision have in store?
- Does France really want to suspend agri-environmental measures?
- Roger Waite the new voice of DG Agri
- BBC Documentary: A Farm for the Future
- 25 Questions for Dacian Ciolos
- Fraud and the CAP
- Welcome to capreform.eu
- The NFU perspective on the future of the CAP
- Keeping an eye on the sugar market
- Lessons from the 2009 EU dairy market crisis
- Eurostat preliminary farm income figures for 2009
- The job nobody wanted
- A new decade, a new CAP
- Paris Declaration on the Common Agricultural Policy
- Scotland ‘on message’ on farm subsidies
- New book reveals extent of ‘box shifting’
- Comprehensive market price data from DG Agri
- Andris Piebalgs for Agriculture Commissioner?
- G-21 an anti-reform bloc?
- Agricultural economists declare war on the CAP
- Co-financing the Common Agricultural Policy
- First Lisbon Treaty ‘Euro-petition’ takes aim at livestock subsidies
- Budget directorate wants to cut CAP
- Mairead McGuinness MEP’s website hacked
- Dairy sector measures do not set pulses racing
- UK watchdog slams farm payments mess
- Fischer Boel’s ‘last feather’ plucked
- One year after the budget review conference: What has happened with the CAP reform process?
- Who will be next agriculture commissioner?
- Fischer Boel holds the line on milk
- Back to butter mountains?
- Barroso CAP Vision: Motherhood & apple pie
- Do we need a “common” agricultural policy?
- Fischer Boel valedictory leaflet
- Changes in GM feedstuffs rules on the way?
- Informal meeting Agricultural Ministers in Sweden 14-15 September to discuss agriculture and climate change
- Is EU agriculture carbon-efficient?
- New EP Ag committee line up
- EU farmers drive Ukraine’s agricultural revolution
- Timetable for the next ‘truly big’ CAP reform
- Tackling the new (old) productivism
- New BBC documentary series: The Future of Food
- Big Phil Lays It On The Line
- UK House of Lords reviews 2010 EU draft budget
- Addressing the dairy crisis – is US intervention buying a good thing for EU producers?
- Where to find data on EU export refunds?
- Latest WTO agriculture update
- Does farm size influence environmental outcomes?
- The Commission milk market report
- Friday fun quiz: What is a public good?
- Franco-German combine to set future path of the CAP?
- Trends on the EU rice market
- Podcast: Roger Waite’s Brussels update
- UK wheat can compete – so does it need subsidies?
- The debate on the post-2013 CAP
- The 2006 EU sugar reform in review
- The (re-)distribution of CAP subsidies
- Green groups score Fischer-Boel 4 out of 10
- What does France think?
- How decoupled is the Single Farm Payment?
- EU could do better on environmental farming
- First results from Brno Informal Agricultural Council
- The Commission Communication on agricultural product quality policy
- Food safety – the Irish pork dioxin crisis revisited
- Urban development – the ultimate challenge
- CAP transparency is here at last – and we need YOUR help
- Buckwell: blanket subsidies to continue after 2020
- UK farm unions call for a common EU agriculture policy
- Fischer Boel defends export dumping
- Let’s get concrete and controversial!
- Re-education for Commission officials
- A chorus of despair
- Jamie Oliveoil explains the politics of the CAP
- Fischer Boel golden goodbye: “Because I’m worth it”
- Why CAP reform happened
- Pressure building on Commission to postpone milk quota reform
- Farming and the depression
- UK Tories on a crooked path to protectionism?
- Spending money to pay it out
- Vision for the future of the CAP
- Tenant farmer tells it like it is
- Don’t watch this, take a look at that
- 10 reasons why the Single Payment Scheme is politically unsustainable (part two)
- 10 reasons why the Single Payment Scheme is politically unsustainable
- Farmers queue overnight for subsidies
- Can the old policy instruments have any effect?
- Health check redux and commodity market worries
- Return of the butter mountain
- Prospects for GMO products in the EU
- Budget pressure on CAP
- More on Irish pigmeat compensation
- Food safety rules as protection or protectionism?
- Dairy quota row highlights industry divisions
- The Estonian vision
- +++ Breaking news: world’s peat lands under threat from EU biofuels law +++
- Court of Auditors’ report on cross compliance is damning
- Questions from Irish pigmeat contamination crisis
- Implications of reforming the basis for SPS payments
- Useful primer on CAP reform
- The last word on biofuels
- French CAP plan nixed by Council
- 20:20 vision
- Tangermann’s parting shot
- Final health check compromise text
- A little light relief
- Commission did suppress cross compliance report, says MEP
- Podcast: the inside story on the health check deal
- So who voted for what?
- Parliament’s health check recriminations begin
- +++ Health Check deal +++
- Podcast: Paulo Casaca MEP on the chaos of Parliament’s farm policy
- Podcast: Neil Parish MEP on today’s health check vote
- The methane menace and hamburgers
- Fischer Boel in the European Parliament
- European Parliament defends farm fat cats
- Cross compliance: is the Court of Auditors being gagged?
- Commissioner Grybauskaité: no future for direct payments
- Auditors’ report makes for sobering reading
- Podcast: Roger Waite on the health check end-game
- Commission perspectives on agriculture and rural development
- Moving towards a flat rate farm payment?
- Buckwell expresses doubts about SFP and pillars
- Irish farmers 71% reliant on subsidies
- Turkeys vote for Christmas
- Free market think tank weighs in on CAP reform
- Who gets what in EU rural development funds
- +++Netherlands government position paper+++
- The great targeting debate
- The CAP and Europe’s subsistence farmers
- French reform paper: An exercise in decoding
- McDonald’s, Lidl and big biotech at the Copa-Cogeca annual congress
- Barroso’s poll results – 87% say ditch biofuels target
- World food prices and the CAP
- Do-ha, So-wha’?
- CAP killer?
- Bureaucracy, greed and vanity threaten EU plan to help world’s poorest farmers
- The CAP’s ambiguous face to the outside world
- European Parliament weighs in on health check
- +++New WTO modalities paper is published+++
- French press for EU summit on CAP
- US farmers want out of conservation, environmentalists resist
- New CAP spending figures show raw deal for new member states
- EU wrong to get involved in provision of free fruit and vegetables
- Pressure grows to drop EU biofuels targets
- Mapping the CAP 2: Expenditure & High Nature Value Farmland
- A CAP that Delivers for Biodiversity?
- Podcast: Latest on health check negotiations with Roger Waite
- New Humboldt University report on global market trends
- Barroso’s biofuels poll – update
- Farm support tops 50 billion euros in 2007
- Manna from heaven? CAP ’spare change’ to boost developing country farmers
- Rising food prices and the dangers of imported inflation
- Animal welfare dilemmas
- Barroso’s disappearing biofuels poll
- Mapping the CAP 1: Google maps v farmsubsidy.org
- GM feed ban crisis
- Irish farmers backtrack on Lisbon vote
- Danish Minister sets out her vision for the CAP
- Rethinking Less Favoured Areas
- “Notre Europe” brainstorming
- Health Check ‘explainer’ by Roger Waite
- Fischer Boel gives good soundbite
- Health check reactions…
- ++Commission proposals published++
- Irish farmers: biting the hand that feeds them?
- What is happening to EU land prices?
- Farm land price boom
- US House of Representatives passes ‘veto-proof’ Farm Bill
- Commission proposal: more leaks
- Darling’s daring bid for reform
- Michael Pollan on the importance of culture in food
- EU food safety rules: Do as I say, not as I do
- Milk quota removal could cost EU farmers €4 billion
- Farm subsidies to airlines and cruise ships?
- Commission’s health check proposals leak again
- France asks “Who will feed the world?”
- The mixed up world of US Senator Chuck Grassley
- Stefan speaks out
- Mandelson: EU should ‘carefully reflect’ on its biofuels policy
- Podcast: April Agriculture Council round-up with Roger Waite
- World Bank weighs in to ‘food versus fuel’ debate
- Food security fears mount
- Irish farmers flex muscles in Lisbon Treaty referendum
- US Farm Bill goes to the wire
- The milk quota mess
- Le(s) rendez-vous de l’Agriculture
- Well fancy that…
- Podcast: February Agriculture Council round-up with Roger Waite
- Agriculture Council fun: rename the CAP
- Ag. Council to debate Health Check on Monday
- Fischler speaks out
- New studies show biofuels increase carbon emissions
- Dutch farmers get most subsidy per hectare
- Commission drops plan to reduce ‘fat cat’ farm subsidies
- Sarko: “La France est de retour en Europe”
- Preserve the prominence of the first pillar: basis of a decentralized debate in France
- Food security: woolly thinking and self defeating solutions
- WTO Agricultural Chair presents new modalities paper
- European Parliament takes aim at CAP direct payments
- Churchill, Malthus, Brown, Barnier and agricultural protectionism
- Farm unions split over payment limits
- Barnier et son ‘B-Team’ s’installent un camp de base à Bruxelles
- Agriculture Ministers hold first discussions on Health Check
- Is EU biofuels policy worth the candle?
- Getting decisions on the Health Check
- Goepel plan: weak, weak, weak
- European Parliament’s View of the Health Check Holds Little Promise for the Environment
- Agricultural commodity prices continue to climb
- Global food prices face a new surge
- New Irish animal welfare payment sets interesting precedent
- Commission proposal for 2 per cent increase in milk quota
- Rising agflation attracts the attention of the European Central Bank
- Cross compliance: at crossed purposes?
- Health Check proposal on flat-rate Single Payment Scheme misunderstood
- CAP direct payments poor value for money
- Limited administrative burden of the Single Farm Payment
- Public supports ‘consumer agenda’ in farm policy
- Meat: facing the dilemmas
- Commission proposals: so what happens next?
- So how green is the Health check “green paper”?
- Specious arguments against limiting payments to largest farms
- Commission proposals lack ambition
- European Agriculture: un tour d’horizon
- Sneak peak at latest health check leak
- Remembering Secondo Tarditi
- Why agricultural policy reform is so difficult
- Options for milk quota reform
- The health check paper: Homeopathy rather than surgery?
- US Farm Bill: the gloves are off
- IEEP briefing on the CAP Health Check
- More on who benefits from farm subsidies
- Who benefits from farm subsidies: farmers or landowners?
- The environmental impact of ending set aside
- More on capping direct payments
- Leaked proposals on subsidy payment limits: first analysis
- Capping farm subsidies is on the agenda again
- Forging the link between the Health Check and the Budget Review
- 69 Ways to Reform the CAP
- Commission’s CAP Health Check proposals leaked
- Council agrees reform of the sugar reform
- Why farmers in the New Member States love the CAP
- Fischer Boel seduced by food security rhetoric
- CAP v GPS?
- Plus ça change?
- Barroso: ‘Health Check’ could mean farm subsidy cuts
- Sarko to scrap the CAP?
- Biofuels: a giant con-trick says the OECD
- Handy primer on CAP reform debate
- Danish parliament unanimously calls for elimination of CAP support
- Agflation goes mainstream
- EU farmers need to save water
- Get paid for blogging the CAP!
- Prospect for milk quota increases next year
- Australian report raises queries on CAP reform
- Biofuels come to rescue of EU sugar market in medium-term
- Growth rates for global food demand set to fall
- Irish farmers now totally dependent on direct payments for their income
- Puzzle over co-decision
- Good prospects for dairy reform
- Set-aside: ensuring the environmental benefits
- Less likelihood of cuts in Single Farm Payment
- Set aside: act now, think later…
- How not to reform farm subsidies (American style)
- Europe becomes net food exporter
- Glimmer of hope over Doha
- The dairy paradox
- Horse paddocks get SFP
- Corridor politics secure fruit and veg deal
- European Commission split over biofuels
- Productionists unite under food security banner
- UK data on distribution of farm payments
- Sad news
- CAP policy instruments and policy goals: cause or effect?
- Fischer Boel sets course for CAP Health Check
- UK Conservatives endorse the CAP
- Are biofuels to blame for agflation?
- Musical chairs at the French Ministry for Agriculture
- COPA to smarten up its act
- Sarko’s hard line could have a paradoxical end
- Can we put health into the CAP ‘health check’?
- UK farm leader says organic shoppers have ‘more money than sense’
- New French farm minister: a ray of hope for reform?
- Wine reform will lead to job losses
- UK Parliament slams the CAP
- “Decoupling†fruit and vegetable payments
- Biofuels – sustainable fuels?
- Stop harming by ending dumping
- Sugar reform hits trouble
- Commission waters down wine reform
- Butter mountain finally melts
- Fruit & veg reform could bring health benefits
- Why farm subsidies are bad for young farmers
- One vision, two steps
- British politician defends the CAP shock!
- A food fight over the farm bill
- Sea of Ignorance
- Simpler – fine. Now, what about more effective?
- Commission announces relaxation of cross compliance system
- Cross compliance: tough new standards or money for nothing?
- New market develops in farm subsidies
- So, goodbye then, President Chirac
- Investors buying up farm subsidies
- Three options for the future of the CAP
- ‘Suspended pessimism’ remains Doha mood
- Biofuels may push up beer prices
- Biofuels- a cold look at a hot issue
- EU’s share of global milk production falling
- Fischer Boel: one vision, two steps
- Mariann Fischer Boel in blog shock
- Farm trade deal faces many hurdles
- Top level push on Doha Round may not work
- Phase out subsidies by 2020 says Miliband
- Parliament throws out modulation plan
- Green box does distort trade, claims Indian study
- Welcome
