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 for Structural and Cohesion Policies: Bibliographical references on the EC Communication and the CAP reform post 2020 (Information package) (Update 19 March 2018)
EC: Antimicrobial Resistance – Prudent Use of Antimicrobials in Animals (report)
EC: Short-term outlook for EU agricultural markets in 2018 and 2019 (latest issue – spring 2018)
EC: Study on storage capacities and logistical infrastructure for EU agricultural commodities trade
EC: 2018 Global Report on Food Crises
- World Food Program: 2018 Global Report on Food Crises
- IEG Policy: Food insecurity worldwide has worsened in 2017 – Commission report
- IFRPI: C2025 News in Brief
OECD: Rural 3.0 – A framework for rural development
IFPRI: Agriculture, development, and the global trading system: 2000– 2015
Asterès (FR): Rapport – L’amont agricole : une consolidation des acteurs pour répondre aux défis du XXIème siècle
Centre d’études et de prospective (FR): Dernières publications
- Analyse n°111 – MOND’Alim 2030 : les acteurs de la mondialisation des systèmes alimentaires
- Analyse n°112 – MOND’Alim 2030 : transformation des risques et des problèmes publics
- Analyse n°113 – Informations, connaissances, innovations : l’autre mondialisation des systèmes alimentaires
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.
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’
EP – ENVI Committee: Draft opinion of ENVI Committee on the EC Communication ‘The future of Food and Farming’
Council: Bulgarian Presidency shapes member states’ shared vision for the next Common Agricultural Policy
- Agri-fish Council 19 March 2018
- Council timeline
- Agriculture and fisheries Council of 19 March 2018
- Presidency Conclusions of 19 March on the next CAP reform
- Bulgarian Presidency shapes member states’ shared vision for the next Common Agricultural Policy
- Press Conference
IEG Policy: Member states fail to reach agreement on CAP reform position
Arc2020: ECA report & 5 Member States Disrupt Commission’s Cosy CAP Communication Plans
CAP Reform: The CAP and migration http://capreform.eu/the-cap-and-migration/
BirdLife: Joint NGOs letter on the CAP objectives
ELO & WWF: Joint statement on future CAP
IEG Policy:
- CAP subsidies should not go to land investors, says German Agriculture Minister
- CAP subsidies ‘make no sense if trade deals drive EU farmers out of business’ – MEP
- Shift required in global agriculture from ‘production to democratization’
Eur Activ:
- Commission official: ‘We want to improve CAP’s agro-environment architecture’
- 10 years of CAP simplification for a better future (Infographic)
- Summary
- CAP’s simplification should ensure EU internal market cohesion
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)
European Court of Auditors (ECA):
IEG Policy: Strong performance targets should underpin future CAP spending – ECA report
EP – EPRS Briefing: The long-term EU budget [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Eur Activ: Minister: Romania has benefitted from the CAP, opposes budget cuts
IEG Policy: Commission farm chief ‘fighting’ to preserve CAP budget funding share post-2020
SIEPS – Swedish Institute for European Studies: National co-financing of CAP direct payments
CAP Reform: Co-financing CAP Pillar 1 payments
2.2. US – CHINA TARIFFS AND TRADE CONCERNS:
USDA: China Responds to U.S. Section 301 Trade Action Announcement
ICTSD:
- US President Signs Memo on Proposed “Section 301” Measures Directed at China
- US Steel, Aluminium Tariffs Take Effect As Trading Partners Debate Options
Council on Foreign Relations: Trump, China, and Steel Tariffs: The Day the WTO Died
IEG Policy: Do Trump’s metal tariffs signal the end for the WTO? Or have we been here before?
IATP: Got Too Much Steel? Too Much Milk?
Farm Policy News (US):
- Wall Street Journal: China Prepares Tariffs Targeting Agricultural Exports
- In Ongoing Trade Dispute, China Targets U.S. Soybeans
- Pork, Ethanol Among Agricultural Products Targeted By China in Trade Conflict
Farmdoc Daily (US):
Purdue Agriculture News: Study: U.S. soybean production, exports would fall if China imposes tariffs
TIME: Trump Says Tariffs Will Help Americans. But U.S. Farmers Fear They’ll Be Hurt
Global Meat: Trump’s China tariffs cause trade concern
Bloomberg: China Strikes at Trump’s Rural Heartland With Tariff on Soybeans
CoBank (US): Quarterly US Rural Economic Review – Trade War Risks Loom over Agriculture
Farm Policy News: Trade Worries Taint Farm Economy Outlook
Gro Intelligence: Potential Chinese Retaliation Against US in Trade Dispute
IEG Policy:
- Trump orders plan to protect farmers as he asks USTR to consider more China tariffs
- US mulling help for US farmers in event US-China trade spat boils over
- China threatens to hit US soybeans, beef and other agri-products with new tariffs
- US-China trade situation sees US ag worries rise amid calls for calm
- China hits back at US sanctions, targets US fruit, pork and more
- Chinese agri-food tariffs could have significant effect on farm trade
- Will China’s potential soy duties see trade flows shift?
- EU temporarily exempted from US steel and aluminium tariffs
- WTO members slam US steel, aluminum tariffs at Goods Council meeting
- EU launches steel safeguard investigation in wake of US steel import duties
- US, EU commit to resolving steel/aluminum tariff issues soon
- Podcast: Ag in the crossfire as trade dispute escalates; and the death of the WTO?
- After domestic trade actions, US initiates WTO complaint against China over intellectual property
WTO: Report of the panel – US – Countervailing measures on certain products from China
IEG Policy: Neither China, US come out with clear win in WTO CVD compliance panel report
Notre Europe – Institute Jacques Delors: International trade: does Europe protect? (FR)
Politico:
- EU mulls WTO cases against Chinese intellectual property violations
- What Trump gets right about Europe’s trade problem
Des Moines Register: Iowa will see ‘hits across the board’ as trade war with China escalates
The Fresno Bee: Valley fruit, nut farmers fear fallout from Chinese tariffs on agriculture products
Eur Activ:
- The Brief – Fixing globalization’s Chinese sin
- (FR) L’UE envisage une plainte à l’OMC contre la Chine sur la propriété intellectuelle
2.3. BREXIT UPDATES:
A. GENERAL ISSUES
Council: Guidelines on next steps on EU-UK negotiations
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
Parliament UK:
- Legislative Consent and the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
- Progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal report published (December 2017 to March 2018)
- Legal concerns for UK after Brexit raised
- Future UK-EU relationship report published
Politico: UK Brexit committee lays out tests for future relationship
Bruegel: Rethinking the European Union’s post-Brexit budget priorities
ICTSD: Preparations for Post-Brexit Trade Deals Continue with US, Australia
Deloitte: Belgium’s Brexit. Why you should plan now
Politico: The master plan to stop Brexit
EU Observer: May promotes Brexit on ‘first-anniversary’ UK tour
IEG Policy: One year to Brexit: What’s been agreed – what’s still to be settled?
The Guardian: Industry planning jobs cull to offset Brexit
Politico: 1 in 5 UK manufacturing jobs at risk because of Brexit: study
D. Guéguen: Brexit: one step forward, two steps back
Eur Activ: Brexit Britain looks to Commonwealth 2.0
B. AGRICULTURAL ISSUES
CAP Reform: The Brexit negotiations on the future trade relationship
Trinity College – A Matthews: Paper – Implications of Brexit for developing countries’ agri-food trade
CAP reform: Implications of Brexit for developing countries’ agri-food trade
IEG Policy: Brexit could strengthen developing countries’ agri-food exports
IEG Policy:
- EU research project aims to improve UK farmers’ resilience post-Brexit
- EU27 endorse Brexit transition period, to food industry’s delight
- Food labelling, agriculture triggers Brexit power dispute within UK
- Food industry, farmers concerned over transition period and EFSA, ahead of Brexit negotiations
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
EC: Contribute law making (New ‘Better regulation’ portal and REFIT platform)
EC: Commissioner’s speech at Forum for the Future of Agriculture 2018
EC: Mergers: Commission clears Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto, subject to conditions
- Food Navigator: EU approves €54bn Bayer-Monsanto deal
- IEG Policy: Commission gives conditional approval to Bayer-Monsanto merger
- Politico: Vestager approves Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto
- Politico: 5 takeaways from EU green light for ‘Baysanto’ mega-merger
- Eur Activ (FR): Bruxelles dit « oui » au mariage Bayer-Monsanto
EC: Evaluation study of the forestry measures under Rural Development
EC: Monitoring EU agri-food trade
EC-JRC: Newsletter
EP – INTA: Press Release – New concessions in EU-Norway trade
SURE Farm Project: Sustainable resilient EU farming systems – Webpage
European Court of Auditors (ECA):
EU’s Food Fraud Network and System for Administrative Assistance and Food Fraud (AAC-AA and AAC-FF): Annual Report 2017 EU’s Food Fraud Network
- IEG Policy: Huge leap in food fraud in 2017
- Food Navigator: Spain makes most request in EU fraud system
European Committee of Regions: Changing the rules of international trade: necessary for tackling the challenges of the farming sector, food sector and the planet – and the opportunity to do so now
EC: EU Milk Market Observatory
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
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
- End of quota system defines shifts in EU milk output
- France to restrict loss leaders through price thresholds
- Court of Justice reaffirms abolishment of EU anti-dumping duties on biofuel
- Softwood lumber dispute, Appellate Body vacancies, Section 301 surface at WTO DSB meeting
- Mercosur and Canada kick off trade deal talks
- Commission amends controversial origin labelling law ahead of key vote
- Agriculture MEPs adopt proposals to reduce EU protein deficit
- Congress passes FY 2018 omnibus bill with FDA, USDA food policy priorities
- Organic dairy grows firmly, but faces obstacles ahead
- EU Farm Organisation asks Commission to scrap duties on imports of fertilisers
- Parliament urges US to drop anti-dumping duties on Spanish olives
FAO: Food Price Index & News Article: The FAO Food Price Index rises for the second consecutive month
AMIS: Market Monitor – No 57, April issue
Farm Europe:
IEG Policy: Think tank highlights link between biofuels and EU protein production
Arc2020:
ENRD: EAFRD Projects Brochure ‘Resource-Efficient Rural Economies’
World Economic Forum:
- How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world
- Food Security and Agriculture
- China cut fertilizer use and still increased crop yields. This is how they did it
Politico: Fakers, bakers and praline-makers fear bite of EU origin labels
Farm Policy News (US):
- Farm Bill- SNAP: Perspective From Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson
- Farm Bill: Chairman Conaway Continues to Highlight SNAP Concepts
Farmdoc Daily (US):
- U.S. Field Crop Income – Return to Normalcy
- Budget Discipline and Farm Policy: An Example and Farm Bill Preview
- Farm Bill Review: Historic Fixed Price Policy and Federal Expenditures
USDA -ERS:
- Amber Waves – Latest issue
- Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture
- Prospective Plantings – National Agricultural Statistics Service
IEG Policy:
- Can US and EU farms survive without getting bigger?
- Farmland most expensive in the Netherlands, cheapest in Romania
IATP:
- Farm Bill portal
- The High Cost of Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
- Legalizing nanomaterials in EU food and feed products
Choices Magazine (AAEA): Theme Overview: Will Rising Interest Rates Lead to Intensifying Risks for Agriculture?
OECD: Rural Policy Reviews – Poland 2018
Agriculture: Volume 8, Issue 3
Foods: Volume 7, Issue 3
American Journal of Agricultural Economics: Advance articles
European Review of Agricultural Economics: Advance articles
Eur Activ:
- EU farm support does not distort trade, Commission tells Washington
- EU sugar companies struggle to survive as prices plunge post-quotas
- Italian farmers team up to face increasing market pressure
- Questions raised over EU’s proposed advanced biofuels list
- Can advanced biofuels really work?
- EU set bar ‘too high’ on advanced biofuels
- Safety first: Food packers shun recycled plastics, for now
IEEP: Newsletter
Freshfel: Headlines 2/2018
FEFAC:
- Position on the development of a European Protein Plan
- European Protein Plan should focus on how to deliver on improved “Protein Quality”
IEG Policy: EU Protein Strategy should focus on improving quality of animal nutrition – FEFAC
FEFAC: News Feed 11, March 2018
European Crop Protection: Industry data transparency – The commitment
The New York Times: In Nafta Talks, U.S. Tries to Limit Junk Food Warning Labels
Food Business News: Food and agriculture needs a more potent voice in Washington
The Verge: Chinese farmers are using AI to help rear the world’s biggest pig population
Kantar World Panel: Newsletter 145 and Newsletter 146
Gro Intelligence: Gro Intelligence Monthly Market Update
Gro Intelligence Weekly
- 23 March
- 29 March
- 6 April
- Mexico’s Sugar Industry Struggles to Remain Competitive
- Mexico’s Pork Industry on the Rise
AP News: Argentine drought hits farmers hard, undermining economy
Food Navigator: White Paper – The growing importance of ‘naturalness’
Global Meat: News
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The Beef / Dairy Site: Newsletter
The New York Times: The Case for a Carbon Tax on Beef
Agriculture Stratégies (FR):
- Newsletter
- La grande prudence des plans de filières sur les fonds mutuels
- En Allemagne, la faillite de la plus grande firme agricole relance le débat sur la régulation du foncier
Centre d’études et de prospective (FR): Nouvelles publications
- Analyse n°108 – Les transformations du paysage laitier français avant la sortie des quotas
- Analyse n°109 – L’enseignement technique agricole : diplômes, insertions et perspectives d’emploi
- Analyse n°110 – Métiers, qualifications et emplois liés à l’enseignement agricole : quatre scénarios d’ici 2030
- Analyse n°114 – L’agriculture ukrainienne : évolutions et principaux enjeux
Académie d’Agriculture de France (FR): Le Mensuel No 33, Avril
FARM – Le Blog de la Fondation (FR): Les investissements directs à l’étranger dans le secteur agroalimentaire, une opportunité pour le développement agricole et la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique ?
FranceAgriMer (FR): Web site & Actualité
Agrisalon (FR): À la une
Ouest – France (FR): « L’idée d’un juste prix est une vue de l’esprit »
Les Échos (FR): Une guerre des engrais menace la sécurité alimentaire européenne
Reporterre (FR): Le pastoralisme est méprisé par la politique agricole européenne
France Bleue (FR): La xylella fastidiosa toucherait désormais les oliviers et les chênes verts
Linked In (FR): Agriculture : une consolidation des acteurs pour répondre aux défis du XXIe siècle
BNP Paribas – L’atelier (FR): Smart Cities, la Chine s’est éveillée
Iris France (FR): Amazon, nouveau géant de l’alimentaire ?
5. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP):
- From the Ground up – The State of the States on Climate Adaptation for Agriculture
- Climate Change is Wreaking Havoc on Agriculture
UNESCO:
- 2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water (FR)
- World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
Eur Activ (FR): L’ONU recommande un retour à la nature pour la gestion de l’eau
UNESCO: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) – Reports
IEG Policy: Land degradation threatens biodiversity and human well-being, UN Research Platform finds
Science Daily: Worldwide degradation of land and nature threatens prosperity and wellbeing
OECD: Environment News – OECD at 8th World Water Forum
Agroecology Europe: Newsletter
Water: Volume 10, Issue 3
World Economic Forum:
- Fostering Effective Energy Transition Report
- These are the countries best prepared for the global energy transition
La Tribune (FR): Transition énergétique : la France parmi les meilleurs élèves du G7
ICTSD:
- EU Leaders Push to Update Climate Action Strategy, Eyeing Paris Agreement Implementation
- The new logic of the EU emissions trading system
Wageningen UR: Anticipating climate futures in a 1.5 °C era
CMCC – Centro Euro-mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatico: Newsletter
CCLR: Volume 12 (2018), Issue 1 – Special Issue: Legal Aspects of the 1.5°C Target
Climate: Volume 6, Issue 1
Environments: Issue 5, Issue 3
Forests: Volume 9, Issue 3
Energies: Volume 11, Issue 3
Anthropocene Magazine: Wood Fuel is Bad News for Climate and Biodiversity
Eur Activ:
- New climate strategy will set out a pathway to meet higher targets
- EU leaders take Brussels to task over 2050 low-carbon roadmap
- UN Arctic chief: ‘Climate change isn’t linear – it’s accelerating’
- Why Poland plans to build a 1,200 km wall
- (FR) Le consumérisme, fossoyeur des sols mondiaux
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Water crises are hitting our economies: Time to hit back with natural infrastructure
Journal de l’environnement (FR): Climat: l’objectif de +1,5°C, une question socio-économique
6. OTHER DOCUMENTS
OECD: Trade in Counterfeit Goods and Free Trade Zones
IEG Policy: Free trade zones “lead to 5.9% rise in counterfeit goods”
Economies: Volume 6, Issue 1
European Data Journalism Network: New platform for data-driven news on European affairs – Twitter
CESifo: Newsletter
CESifo Economic Studies: Advance articles
ECDPM: Weekly Compass
The Review of Economic Studies: Advance articles
European Review of Economic History: Advance articles
7. EVENTS
SIEPS: How much is our Union worth? Discussion in view of the forthcoming negotiations on the EU Multiannual Financial Framework (18 April)
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC): European Dialogue on Non-State Climate Action (23 April)
EIP – AGRI: AgriResearch Conference “Innovating for the future of farming and rural communities” (2-3 May)
EC – EIB: Fourth annual EU conference on EAFRD financial instruments for agriculture and rural development in 2014-2020 (5 – 6 June, Sofia)
NABU: CAP at a crossroads (Workshop) (Sofia, 6 June)
Smart Agrifood Summit: New Challenges for the agri-food sector (20 – 22 June)
Public Policy Exchange: 2nd Symposium on the Future of Sustainable Agriculture in the EU: Assessing the Role of Pesticides and Biocides (26 June)
Public Policy Exchange: Tackling Food Waste in the EU: Fostering Efficiency along the Supply Chain (5 July)
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)
