Common Agricultural Policy

Europe’s June heatwave wiped more than €2bn from the value of its grain crop, according to new analysis, with France and Hungary bearing the...

Fence to keep out wild boar on a family member's farm in Spain Voters and consumers particularly react to food price inflation which has...

Professor Alan Matthews of TCD reports: ' A new paper just published by the EIU School of Transnational Governance puts forward a Strawm...

The EU’s chief climate scientist has warned that the bloc will miss its climate targets if it does not force the agricultural sector to pay ...

Behind the scenes the agricultural lobby is a sprawling, complex machine with vast financial resources, deep political connections and a sop...

Some excellent in depth analysis of why farmers are protesting across Europe and how they relate to climate change:  https://www.carbonbrief...

The European Commission has thrown in the towel on plans to cut climate change emissions in agriculture:  https://www.euractiv.com/section/a...

The EU Parliament's Agriculture Committee wants to exclude cattle and other livestock from plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions:  https...

The majority of European Parliament agricultural committee rapporteurs want a new emphasis on food security even if it means watering down e...

A broadly based German commission has called for the reorientation of agriculture and food policy:  https://www.euractiv.com/section/agricul...

The CAP will continue after Brexit, albeit with somewhat less money, but will needed changes be made, particularly in terms of 'greening...

The EU has set out a new biodiversity strategy.   When I have studied it in detail I will provide some analysis, but for now the summary can...

Climate change has been an absent element of the CAP. A proposal for a third pillar was put forward in the last round of reforms, but was qu...

Caroline Saunders, the president of the Agricultural Economics Society writes in its latest newsletter: 'Climate change is impacting on ...

The French Government has supported the idea of a CAP based on creating farmer employment rather than being based on the area cultivated: S...

A trade deal with China that has ended a ban on exports of British beef offers new hope to beef farmers, but also raise broader issues about...

The Government has issued a response to the EFRA Committee report on its consultation document on domestic agricultural policy after Brexit:...

The EU will lose about eight per cent of its current income after Brexit and is thinking about how to adjust to this loss. Given that the C...

Tim Lang from City University raises food security concerns in an article on Brexit: Feeding ourselves Lang argues: 'If the UK really ...

If it was April Fools Day one would think this was a joke, but a White House climate change initiative is searching for a 'cow of the fu...