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Article de blog
Avoiding milk losses with healthier cows
Europe’s farmers face a tall order. Long tasked with providing us with safe and affordable food, they are now expected to help generate jobs and economic growth as well. This priority was at the heart of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s State of the European Union speech earlier this month....
European Union
2016 - EurActiv
Événement
Urban Agriculture and the European Agenda
Urban agriculture is a hidden champion. It has been neglected for decades by both, urban and agricultural policies. City planners treated the agricultural land as potential building ground, agricultural policies focussed on the rural areas. But due to worldwide challenges as urbanisation, food security and the need for a sustainable...
Belgium
2016 - COST-Action Urban Agriculture Europe (UAE)
Rapport
Improving Market Outcomes
Enhancing the Position of Farmers in the Supply Chain
This report examines the position of farmers in the supply chain and makes recommendations as to how to improve that position. It is the result of the deliberations of the Agricultural Markets Task Force (Task Force), which was set up in January 2016 as a European Commission expert group at...
European Union
2016 - European Commssion
Directives
Assessment of RDP Results: How to Prepare for Reporting on Evaluation in 2017
Starting in June 2016, and each year until 2024, Member States shall submit to the Commission an Annual Implementation Report (AIR). The AIR provides information about the implementation of the rural development programme (RDP), as well as the evaluation plan. The AIR submitted in 2017 (hereinafter: AIR 2017) shall also...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Partie de rapport
CAP CONTEXT INDICATORS 2014-2020
AREA UNDER ORGANIC FARMING
The total organic area in the EU-28 (i.e. the fully converted area and the area under conversion) was more than 10 million ha in 2013 and accounted for 5.8% of the total UAA. The size of the organic area differs substantially among Member States. In absolute terms 4 Member States...
2016 - European Commission - DG agriculture and Rural Development
Manuel
Promoting the Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Rural Areas
The manual overviews existing European policies on integration of migrants and looks at examples of successful social inclusion approaches in different EU Member States. It further provides practical guidance for NGOs to develop and implement effective strategies for the integration of migrants in rural areas.
European Union - Greece
2016 - European Academy for Sustainable Rural Development
Rapport
European forest ecosystems
State and trends
The importance of forests with regard to supporting human needs is considerable. Forests are rich in biodiversity and valuable for recreation, water regulation and soil protection. As well as for providing timber and other non-wood forest products, forests are important for mitigating climate change and for the renewable energy sector....
European Union
2016 - European Environment Agency
Rapport
Medium-term prospects for EU agricultural markets and income 2016-2026
This report presents the medium-term outlook for the major EU agricultural commodity markets and agricultural income to 2026, based on a set of coherent macroeconomic assumptions deemed most plausible at the time of the analysis. The projections assume a continuation of current agricultural and trade policies.
These assumptions imply relatively smooth...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Article de blog
Ordering local food through social networks
Social networks are becoming more and more popular, but did you know that you can even use them to order local, fresh fruit and vegetables? It has become possible thanks to a network of Finnish volunteers called REKO using Facebook to organize the deliveries of local products directly from farmer...
European Union
2016 - REKO
Article
New opportunities for European agriculture
Association of private farming of the Czech Republic is a member of European farmers’ organization COPA, which represents more than 23 million farmers and their families from all over Europe. Together with COGECA European organization for agri-cooperatives organized Congress of European Farmers close to Athens in Greece. The title of...
Greece
2016 - Association of private farming of the Czech Republic
Article de blog
Young farmers: CAP progress is ‘still not enough’
In an interview with EurActiv’s partner EFE, the president of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA), Alan Jagoe, called for more aid for people new to the industry and criticised national governments for doing more for veteran farmers than their younger counterparts.
Although Jagoe conceded that the current Common Agricultural...
European Union
2016 - CEJA
Vidéos
Fédération des AMAP de Picardie - Une recette pour le changement
Les expériences et points de vue exprimés montrent que le partenariat en AMAP est une recette composée de nombreux ingrédients : une réflexion sur ce que nous mangeons, une nouvelle logique d’approvisionnement local, un apprentissage mutuel à travers des échanges, notamment de plats à cuisiner, le plaisir des repas, la découverte...
France
2016 - AMAP
Étude de cas
Dairy farm with processing department and energy production unit from renewable sources in Dâmboviţa County, Nucet, Romania
The dairy farm is located in Nucet, Dâmbovița County in the south of the Sub-Carpathians, between the plains and the southern hills. The region has a rich agricultural heritage for growing vegetables (64% of total production) and livestock (34%).
In 2016 19,170 dairy cows were registered in the county, yet only...
Romania
2016
Événement
What Future for our Farming Systems?
Environmental Challenges and Integrated Solutions
This conference will seek to encourage debate on the benefits to be gained from more sustainable resource use and greater integration of different land uses on lowland and upland farming systems. It will present the best possible scientific understanding of the complexities associated with how best to achieve such an...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - Scotland’s Rural College
Rapport
Short-Term Outlook for EU arable crops, dairy and meat markets in 2016 and 2017
The slowdown in the economic growth of developing economies, although partially compensated by a recovery in developed countries, contributes to the general decline in commodity prices, including in oversupplied crude oil. Depreciation in some competing currencies limits the competitive advantage of the euro at 1.10 EUR/USD. In 2016, milk deliveries...
2016 - European Commission - Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Partie de rapport
CAP CONTEXT INDICATORS 2014-2020
AGRICULTURAL AREA
In the EU-28, the total utilised agricultural area (UAA) was 174 million ha in 2013. France had the largest agricultural area (28 million ha) covering 16% of the total UAA in Europe, followed by Spain (23 million ha) and the UK (17 million ha). 71 % of the total agricultural...
2016 - European Commission - DG Agriculture and Rural Development
Événement
“Smart farming: Harvesting the digital dividends across the EU”
Though still associated with bucolic imagery, farmers confront a steep challenge: produce 60% more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 while using scarce natural resources more efficiently and adapting to climate change. Luckily ICT is here to help: sensor-based, data-intensive ‘smart’ farming will potentially add $10b per...
Belgium
2016 - DIGITALEUROPE
Rapport
Sustainable High Nature Value (HNV) farming
High Nature Value (HNV) farming is a relatively new concept that has been developed since the early 1990s as a policy tool to describe those farming systems in Europe which are of greatest biodiversity value. Instead of focusing only upon the maintenance of rare or endangered species and habitats on...
2016 - EIP-AGRI Agriculture and Innovation
Fiche d'information
Monitoring EU Agri-Food Trade: Development until June 2016
The monthly value of EU agri-food exports in June 2016 reached EUR 10.9 billion and, thus, slightly exceeded the export values in June of previous years. EU agri-food imports went down from EUR 9.8 billion in June 2015 to EUR 9.5 billion in June 2016; thus the net trade surplus...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Événement
Atelier international sur la bactérie « Xylella fastidiosa » et « Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS)
Du 19 au 22 avril 2016 se tient un « atelier international sur la bactérie « Xylella fastidiosa » et « Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS) : Syndrome du déclin rapide des oliviers’. Cet atelier est organisé par la FAO et la Convention internationale de la Protection des Végétaux (CIPV / IPPC) et le...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Convention internationale de la Protection des Végétaux (CIPV / IPPC), CIHEAM IAM- Bari
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