FoE Europe - Agriculture

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Background briefing: PUBLIC MONEY FOR PUBLIC GOODS? Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020

The Truth behind the CAP:
13 reasons for green reform

Press releases

25.01.11 Europe's overconsumption driving destruction of Amazon rainforest

29.11.10 Access to quality affordable food and fair market prices for farmers must be core of EU policy

18.11.10 Agriculture reform must serve up rainforest free food and farming

08.10.10 Europe's great agricultural reform starts with a whimper

16.03.10 European civil society launches 'European food declaration'

Ciolos's empty offer

field Photo credit: treehuggerdotcom

Brussels, 8 October, 2010 - The European Commission's proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will not prevent climate change, protect biodiversity or stop the collapse of family farming, claim Friends of the Earth Europe today. The claim comes in response to a leaked communication from the Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos, who lays out a range of ideas for reforming agriculture in Europe but fails to make any concrete proposals. Read more...

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Position papers & Briefings

Briefing: Less soy, more legumes - how Europe can feed its animals without destroying the planet

November 2010
FoEE position paper - full version

June 2010
FoEE position paper short

FoEE position paper- summary

How the CAP is causing soy expansion and deforestation in South America

Resources

Open letter to MEPs
In view of the Plenary vote on the Dess report on the 23rd of June

March 2010
European Food Declaration

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