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Czech Agriculture – using CAP for agroecology?

Kralicky Sneznik mountain by Marek Stránský via wikimedia commons (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0) Czech Republic is the European Union country with the highest share of arable land,...

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Romania: Redrawing CAP Support Areas to Favour Oligarchs and Land Grabbers

Written by Attila Szocs, Land Rights Campaigner at Eco Ruralis This week, Romania received the formal approval from the European Commission for the starting of the National Rural Development Plan...

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CAP Simplification – simply destroying greening?

Photo (c) Vincent Ruin (Chambre d’Agriculture Savoie-Mont Blanc). French flowering meadows. According to the EU Commission, a first set of specific actions towards CAP simplification have been...

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UK’s Truss Pushes to Unravel Greening

Greening was weak enough to begin with. Now, many ministers and the Commissioner himself seem to see the genuine greening component of CAP as more honoured in the breach than in the observance. The...

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CAP Webinar with Samuel Féret – online now!

+++++UPDATE+++++ In case you missed it or you’d like to reCAP: Watch the webinar ‘Greening or Green-Washing?’ hosted by ARC2020’s Samuel Féret here: Guest article by Michaela Skodova Groupe de Bruges...

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Ecological Focus Area (EFA) in Germany: good for biodiversity & the tax payer?

Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) were supposed to be a core part of the greening of CAP: public goods - biodiversity protection - for public money - the citizens tax revenue. However EFAs were watered...

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CAP Simplification Cuts Inspections & Greening

20% the number of inspections and even more adjustment to the lighter shade of pale that is greening. Simplification Hogan style. The post CAP Simplification Cuts Inspections & Greening appeared...

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Farming’s Markets, Meadows & Movements.

Aurélie Trouvé of ATTAC France released a book last year called Le Business Est Dans Le Pré (Business Is In The Meadow, subtitled How Agribusiness Is Drifting Into Crisis). ARC2020's Peter Crosskey...

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CAP Simplification – simply destroying greening?

According to the EU Commission, a first set of specific actions towards CAP simplification have been announced by Commissioner Phil Hogan, on issues related to the guidelines for Direct Payments this...

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UK’s Truss Pushes to Unravel Greening

Greening was weak enough to begin with. Now, many ministers and the Commissioner himself seem to see the genuine greening component of CAP as more honoured in the breach than in the observance. [...]...

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CAP Webinar with Samuel Féret – online now!

+++++UPDATE+++++ In case you missed it or you’d like to reCAP: Watch the webinar ‘Greening or Green-Washing?’ hosted by ARC2020’s Samuel Féret here: Guest article by Michaela Skodova Groupe de Bruges...

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Ecological Focus Area (EFA) in Germany: good for biodiversity & the tax payer?

Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) were supposed to be a core part of the greening of CAP: public goods - biodiversity protection - for public money - the citizens tax revenue. However EFAs were watered...

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CAP Simplification Cuts Inspections & Greening

20% the number of inspections and even more adjustment to the lighter shade of pale that is greening. Simplification Hogan style. [...] The post CAP Simplification Cuts Inspections & Greening...

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Farming’s Markets, Meadows & Movements.

Aurélie Trouvé of ATTAC France released a book last year called Le Business Est Dans Le Pré (Business Is In The Meadow, subtitled How Agribusiness Is Drifting Into Crisis). ARC2020's Peter Crosskey...

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