In a world where industrial livestock farming has become a steamroller, there are projects that resist and seek to turn the consumption model around with a firm commitment to extensive, sustainable and fair livestock farming. Amigos de la Tierra / Friends of the Earth Spain visited Laura, a breeder who, together with 127 other people …
The Re-CAP: Does the EU’s new farming policy promote climate justice?
Food production is a climate justice issue. But what does that mean exactly? In 2021, the EU finished reforming their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which defines how a third of the EU budget will be spent. The new CAP will distribute nearly €270 billion to over 6 million farmers from 2023-2027. The way that money …
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The Re-CAP: Does the EU’s new farming policy match EU Green Deal goals?
Farming in Europe stands at a crossroads. In 2020, the EU introduced the Farm to Fork Strategy, a set of policy objectives devoted to reforming Europe’s food system to meet the EU Green Deal goals. And in 2021, the EU promised a new “greener and fairer” Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). With its billions of euros …
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Story from the ground: farming in Malta
The New Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is said to be greener and fairer. So in order to improve the situation of farmers, the European Commission promised a fairer distribution of CAP income support among farmers. The Commission declared that “the new CAP takes further steps towards a fairer distribution of income support and a greater …
Danish local communities’ fight against pig factory farming
In Denmark, pig farming has rapidly intensified over the last decades, making it the country with the most pigs per capita worldwide. But how is it to live next to enormous pig factories? How does intensive pig production affect the Danish environment? NOAH / Friends of the Earth Denmark visited local environmental groups all over …
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European Commission’s carbon farming and the CAP: what’s new?
The European Commission presented on 15 December its Communication on “Sustainable Carbon Cycles”, which was said to further the alignment of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with the Farm to Fork strategy’s objectives on climate and biodiversity.
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