Research for AGRI : News – March 2018 [2]

Compiled by the AGRI sector of the Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies (Albert MASSOT MARTI)
NB this list is intended for internal EP use and some links are available only to subscribers

1. KEY DOCUMENTS

EP – Policy Department B: Bibliographical references on the EC Communication and the CAP reform post 2020 (Information package) (Update 19 March 2018)

EC: Consultation on the de minimis Regulation (EU) No 1408/2013 (1 March – 16 April)

Commission proposes increase to national cap for agriculture State aid

IEG Policy: Commission proposes raising threshold for agricultural state aid

EC: Study on storage capacities and logistical infrastructures for EU agricultural commodities trade

EU grain storage has improved but critical bottlenecks remain

European Environment Agency (EEA): Total greenhouse gas emission trends and projections

IEEP:

• Measuring the CAP’s environmental and climate performance
• Climate action in Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry in the EU Member States
• Study – Analysis of LULUCF actions in EU Member States as reported under Art. 10 of the LULUCF Decision

European Milk Board: BAL (Farm Economics and Rural Studies Office, Germany) study on the cost of milk production in Europe

Agri press: Study by German entity BAL reveals real milk production costs in France

Dairy Reporter: Study says real milk production costs aren’t being met in France

IEG Policy:

• Milk prices too low to cover production costs in France
• End of EU milk quotas three years on: Was it worth it?
• Poland has benefited the most from end of EU milk quotas
• Irish dairies test limits of free market after three years of quota-free EU

France Agri-Mer (FR): Lait de vache, March 2018

IFPRI: Global Food Policy Report 2018

The World Bank: Global Economics prospects

The World Bank – Brookings: Forecasting global economic growth in 2018

United Nations: World Population prospects 2017

VOX – CEPR’s portal: Demand for agricultural commodities to grow more slowly in the next decade

2. DOSSIERS

2.1. TOWARDS THE NEW CAP REFORM & THE MFF POST 2020 : LATEST DOCUMENTS:

 EC: COM (2017) 713 of 29 November 2017. Press release: The Future of Food and Farming – for a flexible, fair and sustainable Common Agricultural Policy . Memo – Fact sheet: The future of food and farming – Communication on the Common Agricultural Policy post-2020.

EC – Phil Hogan blog: Building the Future of EU Food and Farming

EC: Commissioner’s speech on ‘New CAP Delivery Model’ (ENRD Conference)

EC: Günther Oettinger: Speech at MFF conference organised by the Bulgarian Presidency (09.03.18)

EC: A new, modern Multiannual Financial Framework for a European Union that delivers efficiently on its priorities post-2020 (Communication of 14.2.2018 – COM (2018) 98)

Press release: EU long-term budget after 2020: European Commission sets out options – and their consequences

Multiannual financial framework : debate on political priorities – Fact Sheets

EP: Own-initiative report on Next MFF: preparing the Parliament’s position on the MFF post-2020 – Text adopted on 14 March 2018

EP – At a glance: Post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework

EP: Own-initiative report on reform of the European Union’s system of own resources – Text adopted on 14 March 2018

                EC – The high-level group on own resources: Final report and recommendations

EP Press release : Funding Europe’s future: EU’s post-2020 budget must match policy goals

EP: MFF Q&A

Bruegel: The future of the EU budget: MFF post-2020                    

Eur Activ: Five things to know about EU regional policy cuts

European Parliament – AGRI Committee: Own-initiative report on the Future of Food and Farming Communication (Herbert Dorfmann’s draft report)

         EP – Press releases: Future of EU farming policy: MEPs to debate their response to Commission’s ideas

         EP – BUDGET Committee: Draft opinion of BUDGET Committee on the EC Communication ‘The future of Food and Farming’

                                EG Policy: Direct payments to be calculated with EU-wide uniform method – Agriculture Committee

                                Arc2020: Ag Committee Report – End CAP Payments Based on Historical Entitlements

                                CAPeye (FR): Débat au Parlement européen sur la future PAC

Council:

• Bulgarian Presidency shapes member states’ shared vision for the next Common Agricultural Policy
• Agri-fish Council 19 March 2018
• Council timeline
• Presidency Conclusions of 19 March on the next CAP reform
• Bulgarian Presidency draft policy conclusions on the EC Communication (discussed on 19 March 2018)

                                IEG Policy: Member states show support for new CAP delivery model in draft council conclusions

                                Bird Life International: Agri Council Fact Check: Leaked CAP conclusions based on environmental fiction                   

EEB: Ministers’ farm fantasy risks decreasing CAP legitimacy further

                                IEG Policy: NGOs criticise ‘environmental fiction’ in Council’s draft CAP reform position

Joint declaration of the Ministers of Agriculture of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland on the Commission Communication on ‘The Future of Food and Farming’

IEG Policy: Poland and Baltic states adopt common position on CAP reform

The Baltic Times: Baltic, Polish ministers sign joint declaration on EU Common Agricultural Policy

European Court of Auditors (ECA):

• Briefing paper on ‘The Future of the CAP’  – Full text 
• Press release
• Newsletter : Base future farm spending on ambitious and relevant performance targets

IEG Policy: Strong performance targets should underpin future CAP spending – ECA report

• Special report 10/2018 – Basic Payment Scheme for farmers has inherent limitations

IEG Policy: Basic Payments not well-targeted to supporting farmers’ incomes, say EU auditors

• Special report no 05/2018 – Renewable energy for sustainable rural development: significant potential synergies, but mostly unrealised

Farm Europe:

• Global Food Forum – A common vision for the future of EU agri-food systems (Final report)
• Europe needs a common vision for the future of its agri-food systems
• Communication on the future CAP: a ‘basis for discussion’, but…

IEG Policy: Think tank advocates for six-year plan to boost precision farming

CAP reform: A Tale of Two Policy Documents: DEFRA vs. Commission Communication

                IEG Policy: Post-Brexit UK agricultural policy could represent model for future CAP – Alan Matthews

IEG Policy: Future CAP challenge is to move away from the export-led productivity approach

Wageningen UR: Impact of coupled EU support for sugar beet growing: more production, lower prices

The World Bank: Thinking CAP – supporting agricultural jobs and incomes in the EU (EU regular Economic Report 4)  

2.2. TRUMP’s TRADE RETALLATION MEASURES AND THE FARM SECTOR:

US Whitehouse:

• President Donald J. Trump will Protect American National Security from the Effects of Unfair Trade Practices
• Presidential Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States

Council: Remarks by President Donald Tusk after his meeting with Prime Minister of Finland Juha Sipilä

                Eur Activ: Tusk puts Trump’s tariff push on EU summit agenda

Politico: Tusk rebukes Trump on transatlantic unity

Wheat World: Letter of the ‘US Wheat Associates (USW)’ & the ‘National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG)’ calling to join the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), to maintain access to the Japanese market

The Washington Post: Trump imposes tariffs on steel and aluminum, but offers relief to allies

Gro Intelligence: US Grain Exports Could be Hurt by Steel Tariffs

Farm Policy News (US): Trade Retaliation Measures Could Hurt U.S. Farm Sector

Chicago Sun Times: US Agriculture Secretary: Trump tariffs not as bad as feared

Farmdoc Daily (US): New U.S. Tariffs Ramp-Up Fear of Ag Trade Retaliation; Soybean Growers Especially Worried

EU Observer: EU to hit US juices and peanut butter over steel tariffs

Eur Activ:

• Trump signs sweeping tariffs, defying trade war warnings
• Trump claims EU has made it ‘almost impossible’ for US firms
• EU could hit peanut butter, orange juice, whiskey in Trump trade row
• EU warns UK not to seek unilateral exemptions from Trump’s tariffs
• Farmers fear a ‘Russia-style’ scenario in EU-US trade spat

IEG Policy:

• EU targets US agri-food imports worth €951m as new trade war looms
• Parliament Trade Committee chair asks US representative to take trade war down a notch
• WTO Ministerial failure continues food stockholding schism
• EU and US seek compromise on hormone-free beef quotas
• Mexican presidential election dominated by trade wars; but agriculture a high priority

World Trade Organisation (WTO): US request – Indian export related measures (WT/DS541-1)

IEG Policy: WTO complaint over India’s export subsidy programs filed by US

The Brownville Herald: 11 nations sign Pacific trade pact as Trump plans US tariffs

The Hill: Australia says it called in golf legend to help lobby Trump on tariffs

CEPS:

• Trade policy-making under irrationality
• Trump’s trade policy turns destructive

Gro Intelligence: Mexico Trade Barriers Will Raise US Food Prices, but What of Quality?

2.3. DIGITAL ECONOMY & AGRI-FOOD SECTOR: LATEST NEWS

The World Bank – Brookings: Can the digital revolution transform agriculture?

Robot Union: Robotics accelerator

VTT: Europe invests to boost the uptake of robotic technologies by start-ups and SMEs

IEG Policy:

• EU launches programme to boost development of robotics in agri-food sector
• Farmers should own the data recorded on their farms, says digital technology industry

Wageningen UR: Relevance of blockchain technology for agrifood  – Full report

Food Navigator: EC supports robotics in agri-food through Robot Union accelerator

Rural Marketing: 6 benefits Drones can provide to agriculture insurance

Precision Ag: Feel Something is Missing in Precision Agriculture? Answer These 10 Tough Questions

                                Opinion: The Missing Link in Precision Agriculture

MIT Technology Review: Ethereum’s smart contracts are full of holes

Research Briefs: Is Walmart Moving Into Farming?

Eur Activ (FR): La Commission veut conjuguer intelligence artificielle et principes éthiques

EIP – AGRI:

• Brochure Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects
• Brochure on Research & Innovation across EU borders
• Brochure on Thematic Networks under Horizon 2020

World Congress for freedom of scientific research: Modern agricultural biotechnology calling – Congress (Brussels, 11 – 13 April)

2.4. BREXIT UPDATES:

1. GENERAL ISSUES

EC: Task force on Art 50 negotiations – Documents

Negotiating documents

Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union

Speech by Michel Barnier at Business Europe Day 2018

IEG Policy: EU and UK agree to end Brexit transition period on December 31, 2020

Politico:

• EU and UK reach Brexit transition deal
• Brexit transition deal done, but Ireland roadblock remains
• Sorry Britain, the EU won’t break ranks over post-Brexit trade

CAP reform: Brexit Withdrawal Agreement forwarded to UK

Eur Activ: EU Northern Ireland offer sparks Brexit war of words

EU Observer: Barnier: open-ended Brexit transition ‘not possible’

European Policy Centre (EPC): Discussion Paper – Brexit: Half in, half out or right out?

IEG Policy: UK stance signals ill-accepted implications of the Good Friday Agreement – former UK MEP

Parliament UK:

• General debate on European Affairs
• Continuing application of EU trade agreements (Report)
• Government has much work to do to avoid cliff edge for non-EU trade
• What happens to EU funding after Brexit?
• No progress in finding solution to Brexit border problem
• Exiting the European Union – Whitehall Briefing

Eur Activ: Lost trade will nullify Brexit dividend, UK government admits

EP:

• Brexit: EP recommends association agreement for future EU-UK relations
• Text Adopted on 14 March 2018 on the framework of the future EU-UK relationship 
• Parliament to set out its vision for future EU-UK relations post-Brexit – Press release
• At a glance – Framework for future EU-UK relations

Politico:

• European Parliament outlines its post-Brexit vision
• UK’s new Brexit best friend … Guy Verhofstadt

Notre Europe – Institute Jacques Delors: Transition: the hitchhikers’ guide to the Brexit galaxy, Policy Paper 218 – French version

CEPS:

• A Brexit gentlemen’s agreement, Commentary
• Theresa May’s Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement

EU Observer:

• EU offers only free trade deal to post-Brexit UK
• Britain wants uniquely deep deal with EU
• EU reforms could turn around Brexit, Blair says
• Brexit deal in jeopardy as May refuses EU’s Irish option
• Scotland and Wales brace for UK clash on Brexit
• No precedents for post-Brexit Irish border

Politico:

• Theresa May’s ‘five tests’ for Brexit
• Theresa May calls for Brexit compromise from both sides

IEG Policy:

• EU-UK will “be drifting apart” under any free trade deal – EC Council president
• UK says keeping Northern Ireland in EU customs union is “unacceptable”
• EU would have “no alternatives” with UK on border control, mutual recognition
• Brexit is exposing two opposed visions of international relations – Interview
• USTR eyeing talks with UK on WTO membership yet this year
• Small and medium-sized firms will suffer more from Brexit than multinationals – interview

The Telegraph: The PM is out of options: however we Brexit , someone will have to be betrayed

The Guardian: Don’t cry for Theresa May. This Brexit crisis is her fault

Eur Activ: UK faces ‘cliff edge’ over EU trade pacts, warn MPs

IEG Policy: Hard Brexit would cost agri-food exporters £9 billion per year, study claims

Oliver Wyman: The Red Tape Cost of Brexit 

EU Observer: No-deal Brexit could cost €65bn a year

2. AGRICULTURAL ISSUES

Parliament UK:

• Post-Brexit food prices discussed by Minister
• Minister questioned on fisheries and agriculture by Committee

Gov UK:

• Open consultation – The future for food, farming and the environment
• Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit

IEG Policy: England can already cap direct payments and reward environment-friendly farmers before Brexit – paper

Wageningen University and Research:

• Dutch agricultural trade and production value to decline in the event of a hard Brexit
• Report – Exploring the impact of two Brexit scenarios on Dutch agricultural trade flows

IEG Policy: Hard Brexit could cut Dutch agri-food production by €500 million

Sputnik International News: Dutch authorities preparing for Hard Brexit

IEG Policy: Post-Brexit custom controls could lead to food shortages in the UK

Politics: No matter what Gove says, Brexit will deal a hammer-blow to agriculture

Senior European Experts: British Agricultural Policy after Brexit

IEG Policy:

• England can already cap direct payments and reward environment-friendly farmers before Brexit – paper
• Food labelling, agriculture triggers Brexit power dispute within UK

3. EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND OTHER EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Council – Bulgarian Presidency:

Programme of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council

Informal meeting of agriculture ministers – 03-05/06/2018

Bulgarian Presidency EU:

Agriculture Minister Porodzanov steers a transparent discussion on the future of EU’s agricultural policy

EC: Published initiatives

EC: Contribute law making (New ‘Better regulation’ portal and REFIT platform)

EC: Commissioner’s speech on “The Impact of the CAP on Developing Countries”

EC: Feasibility study on options to step up ÈU action against deforestation

IEG Policy: EU releases study on deforestation caused by food commodities

EC: Soil erosion costs European farmers €1.25 billion a year (JRC study)

LDD – Land Degradation and Development: Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models

IEG Policy: Soil erosion costs EU agricultural sector €300 million per year

EC: Commission launches Knowledge Centre to boost food quality and step up the fight against food fraud

Knowledge Centre for food fraud and quality

IEG Policy: Commission research arm sets up fraud and dual quality food centre

EP: Resolution of 15 March 2018 on US measures on EU farm support under the CAP (in the context of Spanish olives)

IEG Policy: Parliament urges US to drop anti-dumping duties on Spanish olives

EP:

• Agri News on the Research4committees blog – 2018 issues
• News – March 2018 issue 1

EP – Briefing: Improving support for young farmers

European Court of Auditors (ECA):

• Special report No 5/2018 – Renewable energy for sustainable rural development: significant potential synergies, but mostly unrealised
• Press release: Link renewable energy better with rural policies, say EU Auditors

IEG Policy: Synergies between renewables and rural development not exploited in the EU – ECA report

European Court of Justice:

• Cases 52/16 and 113/16 Rights of usufruct over agricultural land — National legislation permitting such rights to be acquired in the future only by close family members of the owner
• Press release – Depriving persons of their right of usufruct if they do not have a close family tie with the owner of agricultural land in Hungary is contrary to EU law

IEG Policy: Hungarian law on agricultural land infringes EU free movement of capital principle – ECJ

European Court of Justice: Case T-33/16, Judgement of 14 March, Genetically modified soybeans MON 87769, MON 87705 and 305423 — Rejection of an application for internal review of market authorisation decisions 

IEG Policy: EU court annuls Commission decision on genetically modified soybean products

European Committee of Regions: Changing the rules of international trade, a necessary condition for facing the challenges of agriculture, food and planet (conference’s documents)

EFSA: Neonicotinoids: risks to bees confirmed

EC: Labelling of alcoholic beverages in the EU: some facts?

IEG Policy: EU alcoholic drinks industry presents self-regulatory nutrition labelling approach

Politico: EU alcohol industry offers online option for nutrition labels

EC: Competition – Green light for acquisition of ‘Century’ by ‘Nufarm’ (Case 8725)

EC: Millions of European schoolchildren benefit from healthy food thanks to EU programme

EC: Commission seeks expert views on plant proteins

EC: Monitoring agri-food trade until January 2018

Good start to the year for EU agri-food exports

EC – EIP AGRI: Newsletter

EC: Commodity Price Dashboard

• EU prices for selected representative products
• Peaches and nectarines dashboard
• Tomatoes dashboard

EC: EU Milk Market Observatory

• Dairy Dashboard
• Latest updates
• Prices / margins

EC: EU Meat Market Observatory

• Poultry meat Dashboard
• Sheep & Goat Dashboard
• Pig Dashboard
• Eggs dashboard
• Pigmeat latest updates
• Beef and veal dashboard
• Meat latest updates

EC: EU Sugar Market Observatory

• Dashboard
• Price reporting
• Monthly trade statistics
• Trade statistics

EC: EU Crops Market Observatory

• Cereals dashboard
• Oilseeds dashboard
• Cereals balance sheet
• Cereals trade
• Oilseeds balance sheet
• Oilseeds exports and imports
• Balance sheets for cereals, oilseeds, proteins and rice 
• Balance sheet rice
• Olive oil dashboard

4. AGRI-FOOD ISSUES

IEG Policy: News

• EU to present guidelines to feed animals on food not apt for human consumption
• EU rules on unfair trading “should not damage” existing arbitration services
• Supply Chain Initiative enhances capabilities, but farmers still may not join
• MEPs ask to set up support scheme for beekeepers in future CAP
• EU to change rules around labelling of olive oil
• EU animal by-products proposal “could disrupt trade” says US
• EU unveils details of delisted Brazilian meat plants
• Commission working on assessing impact of CETA on trade flows – Commissioner Malmström
• Commission proposes raising threshold for agricultural state aid
• Leaked UK paper calls for increase in Indonesian palm oil supplies to the EU
• China tops concern for breaches of EU intellectual property, GIs in international trade
• EU-Mercosur trade discussions close to being concluded, says Brazilian President
• Brussels government takes Commission to Court over glyphosate renewal
• Podcast: Developments in the global crop protection market
• EU Farm Organisation asks Commission to scrap duties on imports of fertilisers

Agribusiness Intelligence: IEG Vantage

FAO:

• Food Price Index

IEG Policy: Cereals and dairy drive food prices up in February

• World Food Situation
• FAO DG and UN Secretary General meet; sustaining peace is a cornerstone for zero hunger

AMIS: Market Monitor – March issue

Crop Watch: Bulletin No 46, Vol 18, No 1

CAP Reform: Measuring changing farm structure in the EU

Forum for the Future of Agriculture 2018 (FFA 2018): Healthy farming, healthy food, healthy future (video)

EMM: Daily News Summary 16 March 2018

Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research: Vol 15, No 4

• Valuation of agrifood SMEs. Lessons to be learnt from the stock market
• Crop insurance demand in wheat production
• Spanish wines in the US market

Arc 2020: Does the European Union Need More Milk?

CAPRI (CGIAR – IFPRI): Newsletter

FAPRI: FAPRI 2018 US Baseline Outlook

FAPRI release – Grain prices up, livestock demand strong… …but farmers still caught in economic squeeze

Farm Policy News (US): FAPRI Baseline: Farmers Still Caught in Economic Squeeze

USDA -ERS:

• Commodity Costs and Returns
• Amber Waves – Latest issue

Farm Policy News (US):

As Farm Bill Stalls Over SNAP, USDA-ERS Report Captures Details of the Program

Farm Bill: SNAP Issues Hamper Timeline

Politico: SNAP proposal endangers bipartisan Farm Bill in the US

Farmdoc Daily (US):

• Farm Bill Review: Historic Fixed Price Policy and Costs of Production
• A Positive Outlook for Corn
• Crop Insurance Decisions for 2018
• Premium Subsidy and Insured U.S. Acres
• How Are Family Living Expenses Funded?

IATP: Trump’s Budget Spurns Rural Communities

Choices Magazine (AAEA): Theme Overview: Will Rising Interest Rates Lead to Intensifying Risks for Agriculture?

Slide Share: Krijn Poppe – Challenges for EU Agri-Food and implications for research

FiBL – The Organic World: The World of Organic Agriculture 2018

Agronomy: Volume 8, Issue 3

Foods: Volume 7, Issue 2

Pegasus Project:

• Transforming Approaches to Rural Land Management – Web page
•  Newsletter Issue 5
• Pegasus key messages and recommendations

American Journal of Agricultural Economics: Advance articles

European Review of Agricultural Economics:

• Advance articles
• Vol. 45, Issue 2
• Lost in space? The effect of direct payments on land rental prices

 Bain & Company: Insights – Indian Farming’s Next Big Moment: Farming as a Service

Corporate Europe: What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science

 The Vegan Society: Grow Green: Solutions for the Farm of the Future

IEG Policy:

• Report says end meat and dairy subsidies, tax meat in shift to crop protein diet
• Greenpeace calls for halving meat and dairy production to protect climate and health

 Eur Activ:

• How EU powdered milk threatens African production (FR) Comment l’UE exporte sa crise du lait vers l’Afrique
• Will Europe reform the value chain in the food industry?  (FR) L’Europe attendue sur la réforme de la chaîne de valeur alimentaire
• Country of origin food labelling to be voluntary, but not always
• Italian farmers team up to face increasing market pressure

CIHEAM: In focus, March

EU Observer: Not a bug: insect ‘novel food’ fines vary widely across EU

La Via Campesina : Via Campesina Europe publishes an in-depth guide to Food Sovereignty (FR) Via Campesina Europe publie un guide détaillé sur la Souveraineté alimentaire

Mongabay: Cerrado: can the empire of soy coexist with savannah conservation?

The Guardian: Rise of mega farms: how the US model of intensive farming is invading the world

Kantar World Panel: Newsletter – Consumer Insights Num 143

Gro Intelligence:

• Gro Intelligence Weekly 2 March –  9 March –   14 March
• GM Corn in Mexico a Symptom of Globalization

Global Meat: News

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Dairy Reporter: News

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The Beef / Dairy Site: Newsletters

Russia Insider: Russia’s Flourishing Agriculture Overtakes Its Word Class Arms Industry in Exports

Bayer Global: Business at prior-year level – on track with strategy

Centre d’études et de prospective (FR): Bulletin de Veille 15/3/2018

Chambres d’Agriculture (FR): La lettre économique, Février 2018

Académie d’Agriculture de France (FR): Le Mensuel No 32, Mars

Mission Agrobiosciences – INRA (FR): La lettre électronique

Salon International de l’agriculture (FR): Web page

ADEME – BASIC (FR): Étude – Analyse de la valeur socio-économique de l’alimentation, et sa répartition

Basta!!: Une nouvelle étude montre comment l’industrie agro-alimentaire asphyxie le monde agricole

Michel Dantin (FR):

• Lettre info
• Grande distribution: «Quand il s’agit de contourner les règles, l’imagination humaine est sans limite»

SOL – Alternatives agro écologiques et solidaires (FR – EN): Web page – J. Berthelot

FranceAgriMer (FR):

• Web site & Actualité
• Bilan céréales
• Filière sucre
• Sucre
• Porc
• Volailles de chair
• Fruits
• Légumes
•  Lait de vache

Revue Laitière Française (FR): Newsletter 51

The Conversation (FR): Sortir les producteurs laitiers de l’impasse

Agrisalon (FR): À la une 

 Ouest – France (FR):

• L’Europe promet qu’il n’y aura pas de viande aux hormones sur nos tables
• Une réduction massive des pesticides, c’est possible

Les Échos (FR):

• Les magasins de producteurs prennent racine
• En France, le modèle de l’agriculture à visage humain n’a plus d’avenir

Retail Detail (FR): Les supermarchés opposés à la proposition européenne en faveur des agriculteurs

Commod Africa (FR): Le poulet européen vendu à vil prix sur les marchés africains

Libération (FR): Pesticides «tueurs d’abeilles» : «Ils n’augmentent pas les rendements agricoles et ont des effets catastrophiques»

Réussir cultures et grains (FR): Newsletter filière

Radio France: Les “Big Four” et le marché des céréales

Boulevard Voltaire (FR): Christiane Lambert: L’agriculture au feminin

5. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Agronomy: Climate Change Trends and Impacts on California Agriculture: A Detailed Review

USA Today – Desert Sun: California agriculture faces serious threats from climate change, study finds

SIWI: Groundwater: a strategic resource for improved resilience

The Ecologist: How rethinking land use and preserving natural carbon sinks is essential to bridge the emissions gap

Global Change Biology: Major limitations to achieving “4 per 1000” increases in soil organic carbon stock in temperate regions: Evidence from long-term experiments at Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom

European Environmental Bureau (EEB): Precautionary in principle, flawed in fact: European Commission review accepts environmental groups’ criticism of chemical regulation

Water, environmental, and agricultural resources economics (WEARE): Publications

FAO: Infosylva No 5/2018

CMCC: Newsletter 2/2018

Science Daily: Soil cannot halt climate change 

Science for Environment Policy:

• Dietary exposure to neonicotinoid-contaminated plant material poses risk to leaf-shredding invertebrates
• Reducing synthetic pesticide use on grapevines — a review of methods

Global Research Alliance (GRA):

• Global Soil Organic Carbon Map
• Handbook of Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification for a Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Project with Water Management in Irrigated Rice Paddies

PNAS: Nutritional and greenhouse gas impacts of removing animals from US agriculture

Eur Activ:

• Halting deforestation – a critical contribution from the EU
• What member states say about biofuels in transport
• (FR) Budget européen: où sont passés le climat et l’environnement?

Sustainability: Volume 10, Issue 2

The World Economic Forum: The Arctic recently sent us a powerful message about climate change

The Independent: France bans plastic cups, plates and cutlery, in 2020

The Guardian: Biofuels can help solve climate change, especially with a carbon tax

The New York Times: The 8 Million Species We Don’t Know

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Water crises are hitting our economies: Time to hit back with natural infrastructure

INRA (FR): Durabilité de l’alimentation en Europe : comment concilier recommandations nutritionnelles et faible impact environnemental

Journal de l’environnement (FR): Climat: l’objectif de +1,5°C, une question socio-économique

6. OTHER DOCUMENTS

The World Bank: Growing United: Upgrading Europe’s Convergence Machine

                EU Observer: EU populism feeds on poverty, World Bank warns

Financial Times: EU income gaps threaten to sow discontent, World Bank warns

Notre Europe – Institute Jacques Delors: What is our ambition for the European Labour Authority?, Policy Paper 219 –  French version

EstIF: Volume 6 (2018), Issue 1

ICTSD: Malmström Issues Plan to Improve Implementation of Sustainability Chapters in EU Trade Deals

Eur Activ: What the new German grand coalition means for Europe

EU Observer:

• What might be next in EU-Ukraine relations?
• EU ‘ready’ for trade showdown with US

Politico: EU: Our countermeasures against Trump are ready

Blog Activ: Customs Regulations: Overview of Ukraine’s progress in implementation of Association Agreement with the EU

European Data Journalism Network: New platform for data-driven news on European affairs – Twitter

Nature:

• Scientific Reports
• Special – 2017: The Year of Science

EP – Research for REGI Committee: State Aid and Cohesion Policy (study)

CESifo Economic Studies: Advance articles

The Review of Economic Studies: Advance articles

European Review of Economic History: Advance articles

ECDPM:

• Weekly compass (Africa- EU relationship)
• The political economy of regional integration in Africa

Borderlex: Newsletter

7. EVENTS

Farm Europe: Proteins and renewable energy : one and the same challenge (26 March)

RISE Foundation: Pre-FFA Event – The optimal scale and balance of livestock in the EU (26 March)

Forum for the Future of Agriculture (FFA): FFA 2018 (27 March 2017)

EIP – AGRI: AgriResearch Conference “Innovating for the future of farming and rural communities”

European Economic and Social Committee (EESC): European Dialogue on Non-State Climate Action (23 April)

NABU: CAP at a crossroads (Workshop) (Sofia, 6 June)

Public policy exchange: 2nd Symposium on the Future of Sustainable Agriculture in the EU: Assessing the Role of Pesticides and Biocides (26 June)

Smart Agrifood Summit: New Challenges for the agri-food sector (20 – 22 June)

OECD: Competition workshops (2018)

With acknowledgements to IEG Policy, Politico, CAP Reform.eu, Euractiv, Centre d ‘études et de prospective, Illinois.edu, FranceAgriMer and Tomás Garcia Azcárate (EAGRA)