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NGOs take Commission to court over biofuels reports
Four environmental groups have sued the European Union's executive for withholding documents they say will add to a growing dossier of evidence that biofuels harm the environment and push up food prices.
Socialists propose 'New Deal' for EU farm policy post-2013
The Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament yesterday (4 March) tabled its vision for a fair, large-scale reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Commission gives green light to genetically-modified potato
In a controversial move, the European Commission yesterday (2 March) gave the green light for the first genetically-modified potato to be cultivated in the European Union.
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Global food prices and CAP reform
The debate on the EU's future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is taking place in the aftermath of spectacular world food price increases in 2007-...
Europe and global food security
As the world's population approaches ten billion, issues like climate change, growing scarcity of oil and availability of quality land and water...
Agriculture: In brief
EurActiv presents an overview of the main developments regarding the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): its current priorities, major milestones...
Interviews
Olivier De Schutter,
Rapporteur on right to food, United Nations
UN envoy: World set for new food crisis in 2010
Jacques Carles,
Managing director, Momagri
Think-tank: Global food security 'threatened by liberalisation'
Mariann Fischer Boel,
EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development,
Fischer Boel: Future farm policy 'should bolster production'
Opinion & Analysis
Growing demand for soybeans threatens Amazon rainforest
The food crisis and land investment in developing countries
Is Local Food Better?
How Europe should tackle the global food crisis
Responding to the global food crisis
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