Research for AGRI : News – November 2018

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Compiled by the AGRI sector of the Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies (Albert MASSOT MARTI)
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1. KEY DOCUMENTS

EC: Competition/Agriculture: Commission publishes first report on application of competition rules in the agricultural sector
→Report
→Commission staff working document
EC: Endocrine disruptors: A strategy for the future that protects EU citizens and the environment
→Commission Communication on endocrine disruptors: Questions and Answers
→→Communication
→→IEG Policy: Commission adopts communication on endocrine disruptors
→→Le Monde (FR): La « stratégie » de l’UE pour minimiser l’exposition aux perturbateurs endocriniens
EC: EU Farm Economic overview (based on 2016 and 2016 FADN data)
→Press release: Latest report shows income increase in the EU farming sector
→→IEG Policy: CAP subsidies account for almost a third of EU farming incomes
→→→Commission report shows increase in EU farming incomes
→→→UK farmers have most valuable holdings in the EU
EC – Eurostat: Farm Structure Survey 2016
→Eurostat – Statistics explained: Farm structure statistics – December 2015 data
→Eurostat – Press release: Farm structure survey 2016 – Of the 10.3 million farms in the EU, two thirds are less than 5 ha in size – Only 11% of farm managers are under 40 years old
→IEG Policy: Rental prices for EU farmland have risen by a quarter over the last decade
→→Family members perform three-quarters of EU farm work
→→Majority of EU farms remains small in terms of size and production – Eurostat
EC: A sustainable bioeconomy for Europe: strengthening the connection between economy, society and the environment (updated paper)
→Speech by Commissioner Hogan at Conference on Revised EU Bioeconomy Strategy
→→ENRD: Rural Bioeconomy portal
→→IEG Policy: CAP strategic plans must include national bioeconomy strategies – Phil Hogan
→→→Food systems should be ‘integral part’ of EU bioeconomy strategies
→→→Bio-economy aims to help the farming community diversify revenue sources
→→Eur Activ: EU emphasises ‘ecological limitations’ of new bioeconomy plan
USDA: World Agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) 2018
FAO: Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets, November 2018
INRA: Land use and food security in 2050 : a narrow road (study)
→IEG Policy: Agricultural area decreased the most in Europe out of all OECD countries 

2. DOSSIERS

2.1. TOWARDS THE CAP BEYOND 2020

A. MFF POST 2020: PROPOSALS AND GENERAL COMMENTS

EC: Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027
→EU budget for the future
→→EP News: Confusing EU Budget figures: What are the real cuts and increases?
→→EP News: Post-2020 EU budget: Parliament challenges Commission over scale of cuts (FR)
EC: EU budget: Commission proposes most ambitious Research and Innovation programme yet
Council: Multiannual Financial Framework
→Austrian Presidency: Multiannual Financial Framework (2021-2027) : State of play or here 
→Outcome of the Council Meeting of 16 October
EP: Draft opinion on the proposal for a Council regulation on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 – Parliament’s position with a view to an agreement – Committee on Budgets
→Draft opinion (Peter Jahr) on the Interim report on MFF 2021-2027 – Committee on Agriculture
→Oral question of Czesław Adam Siekierski, on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, on the Common agricultural policy (CAP) financing
→News – Long-term EU budget: MEPs lay down funding priorities post-2020 budget
→European Parliament resolution of 30 May 2018 on the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework and own resources
European Courts of Auditors (ECA): The Commission’s proposal for the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework – Briefing Paper
Ministers of Agriculture from Finland – France – Greece – Ireland – Portugal – Spain : Joint Memorandum on the future MFF / CAP
CAP Reform: Member State CAP allocations and progress on the MFF
EU Observer: The big European budget battle – who is fighting for what?
Terra Nova (FR): Budget européen 2021-2027 : doter l’Europe des moyens de nos ambitions

B. CAP PROPOSALS & OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

EC: Legal texts and factsheets
→EU budget: the Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020
→Memo
Press release
CAP Strategic Plans Regulation (COM (2018) 392)  Annexes
→→Horizontal / financing regulation (COM (2018) 393) Annex
CMO regulation (COM (2018) 394)
EC: European Commission communicates new CAP proposals on the ground
EC: Remarks by Commissioner Phil Hogan on Simplification and Subsidiarity, July AGRI Council, Brussels
Speech by Commissioner Phil Hogan at Meeting with German Federal and Regional Agriculture Ministers
LinkedIn: CAP objectives explained: Ensuring viable farm income (Tassos Haniotis)
Council: Future of the CAP post 2020
→AGRIFISH Council conclusions 18 June
→Finnish Delegation: Conditionality: Finding a simpler way to ensure environmental performance (position paper)
EP – AGRI Committee: Future of EU farming: Debate on reform proposals with Parliament’s rapporteurs
→AGRI Draft reports
→Draft report on the HZR proposal (New regulation on the financing, management and monitoring of the CAP) (Muller report)
→Draft report on the CMO amending proposals (Andrieu report) (FR version)
→→Agence Europe: European Parliament rapporteurs to present draft reports on CAP post-2020 on 21 November
EP – Research for AGRI: Briefing on ‘Towards the Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020: comparing the reform package with the current regulations’ : Think Tank publication & Research4Agri Blog
Briefing
Annex (Dashboards)
EP – Research for AGRI: Workshop on ‘The CAP beyond 2020: appraisal of the EC legislative proposals’
→The CAP Strategic Plans beyond 2020: assessing the architecture and governance issues in order to achieve the EU wide objectives – Slides
→The CAP support beyond 2020: assessing the future structure of Direct payments and Rural Development interventions – Slides
→The sectoral approach in the CAP beyond and possible options to improve the EU food value chain – Slides
EP-EPRS: CAP horizontal regulation: Financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy for 2021-2027
→LIFE programme for 2021-2027: Financing environmental and climate objectives
European Court of Auditors (ECA): Special report no 10/2018: Basic Payment Scheme for farmers – operationally on track, but limited impact on simplification, targeting and the convergence of aid levels
→Briefing paper: Future of the CAP
→Opinion 7/2018 concerning Commission proposals for regulations relating to the Common Agricultural Policy for the post-2020 period or here
→→IEG Policy: EU auditors slam Commission’s CAP reform plan for falling short of ambitions and objectives
→→Arc2020: ARC Exclusive – Auditors Heavily Criticise Commission’s CAP Plans
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) – Scientific advisory boards: For an EU Common Agricultural Policy serving the public good after 2020: Fundamental questions and recommendations
French Ministry of Agriculture (FR): Déclaration commune de FR et DE sur la future PAC
→German Ministry of Agriculture (DE): Common declaration of FR and DE on the future CAP
Reuters: France, Germany call for stable EU farm budget post-Brexit
→Euractiv: Berlin joins opposition to EU Commission’s proposed cuts for CAP 

C. LATEST REACTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

IEG Policy: CAP Strategic Plans regulation will lead to “accountability gap”, academics warn
→CAP operational programmes would help regulate dairy sector
→Direct payments will remain “untargeted” and “unequal” after 2020, says academic
→2018 summer drought shows the need for CAP to deliver on climate change – Hogan
→Direct payments need to be better targeted to reflect new priorities beyond farm income
→CAP reform should extend vine planting rights – EFOW
→Slovenia will “resist” cuts in Rural Development funding, says Agriculture Minister
CAP reform: State aid rules and the CAP 2020 legislation
→Market and trade effects of the next CAP reform
→Evaluating the legislative basis for the new CAP Strategic Plans
CEETTAR (European Organisation of Agricultural, Rural and Forestry Contractors): CAP Reform: CEETTAR pleads for a definition of land-based contractors
→IEG Policy: Post 2020 CAP should include definition of land-based contractors
European Review of Agricultural Economics: Employment effects of CAP payments in the UK non-farm economy
Arc2020: Ensuring an environmentally aware CAP: A battle of measures
→How Farm Policy Can Attract and Keep Young and New Entrants
World Bank: Poverty, Inequality, and Agriculture in the EU (Policy Research Working paper)
→IEG Policy: CAP payments have helped to reduce poverty and inequality – study
Independent.ie – Farm Ireland: Commission won’t approve state aid without more measures for young and retiring farmers – Hogan
VOX – CEPR Policy Portal: The Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020: How to avoid seven more years of money for nothing
→IEG Policy: Direct payments likely to remain “enormous waste of resources” after 2020, researchers warn
Wikiagri (FR): Future Pac, Jean-Marie Séronie pour un premier pilier axé sur la gestion des risques et des soutiens à l’actif
Agroéconomie (FR): Demain une PAC encore commune?

2.2. PREPARING COP24: LATEST DOCUMENTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES

COP24 – Katowice: UN Climate Summit 3- 14 December
→EPRS – briefing: COP24 climate change conference in Katowice
EP: Resolution of 25 October 2018 on the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland (COP24)
→News – Paris agreement: MEPs call for stepping up EU climate commitments
→→ Bridges: EU Parliament Pushes for Tougher Emissions Reduction Targets for 2030
IPCC: https://www.ipcc.ch/index.htm
→Global warming of 1.5 °C – An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels
→Summary for policymakers
→→ICTSD – Bridges Weekly: IPCC Report Demonstrates Disastrous Risks from Climate Change, Calls for Scaling Up Global Action
→→World Economic Forum: What difference would just half a degree of global warming make?
→→Eur Activ: ‘Most important years in history’: Major UN report sounds last-minute climate alarm
→→→The good, the bad and the ugly: The IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5°C
→→→Human activities to suffer dramatically from 2°C increase
→→Climate Research: Biophysical and economic implications for agriculture of +1.5° and +2.0°C global warming using AgMIP Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments
Nu3: Food Carbon print index 2018
→IEG Policy: Study calculates CO2 emitted by food production in each country
London School of Economics and Political Science: Aligning national and international climate targets (report)
→Eur Activ: Only 16 countries meet their commitment to Paris Agreement, new study finds
Nature – Climate Change: Options for keeping the food system with environmental limits
→Impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global nutrition
→→IFPRI: The effect of climate change across food systems: Implications for nutrition outcomes
→→IEG Policy: Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 can be done within planetary limits – study
→→IFPRI: Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits
→→Carbon Brief: Rising CO2 levels could push ‘hundreds of millions’ into malnutrition by 2050
→→Palgrave Communications: Economic shifts in agricultural production and trade due to climate change
→→Phys.org: Climate change will reshape the world’s agricultural trade
→→Science: Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate
→→Le Monde (FR): Les émissions de CO2 menacent notre alimentation
Changing Markets: Growing the Good: The Case For Low-Carbon Transition in the Food Sector
→Eur Activ: Governments lack policies to support food sector in low carbon transition – report
EC – EU Science Hub: EC: Worrying effects of accelerating climate change on the Mediterranean Basin (study)
European Environment Agency (EEA): Climate change and water — Warmer oceans, flooding and droughts
European Climate Foundation: Net Zero 2050 – A vision and evidence base for the transition to net-zero emission societies in Europe and beyond, by mid-century at the latest
→Net Zero 2050 : Zero emissions pathways to the Europe we want
Eur Activ: Net zero emissions feasible by 2050 if EU economy goes cross-sectoral, new report says
World Economic Forum: They won this year’s Nobel for economics. Here’s why their work matters
Our World in Data: CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions
→Global inequalities in CO₂ emissions
Gro Intelligence: Climate Turns in Argentina’s Favor as New Soybean Crop Is Planted
IEG Policy: Denmark should shift to “agriculture without animals” to cut emissions, says professor
Eur Activ: Behind-the-curtain of the EU’s 2050 climate plan
BBC: Trump: Climate change scientists have ‘political agenda’
Vimeo – AFD (FR): Peut-on encore limiter le réchauffement de la planète à 1,5°C ?
Eur Activ (FR): Des satellites au secours du climat
→En coulisse, la bataille pour le climat fait rage

2.3. BREXIT UPDATES:

GENERAL ISSUES
Council: European Council 18/10/2018
→European Council conclusions
EP – PD: 2018 Brexit Budgetary Briefing
EP – EPRS: Brexit negotiations – Briefing
EC: Speech by Michel Barnier at the closing session of Eurochambre’s European Parliament of Enterprises 2018
EU Observer: Brexit deal ‘within reach’ says Barnier
Politico: Michel Barnier: UK could reapply for EU membership once it is ‘a third country’
→4 takeaways from the Brexit crunch that wasn’t
→Brexit divorce agreement collapses after Raab and Barnier meet
UK Parliament: Case for a Referendum on the Outcome of EU Withdrawal Negotiations
→Future trade with the EU: Mutual recognition
→A User’s Guide to the Meaningful Vote – Guide
→→House of Commons Library: The ‘meaningful vote’: A user’s guide
European Policy Centre – The Wonk: Brexit: When the music has to stop
Eur Activ: The Brief – How meaningful can a Brexit vote be?
→EU to offer Irish border compromise in Brexit talks – sources
→EU’s Barnier says ‘yes’, Irish border issue could sink Brexit deal
→May and EU consider extending transition to break Brexit impasse
→French businesses prepare for no-deal Brexit
ICTSD – Bridges Weekly: Brexit Process Enters Pivotal Phase As Leaders Debate Options for “Backstop”
Cambridge 2018 – Ivan Rogers: Britain’s former Brussels representative unpacks the consequences

AGRICULTURAL ISSUES
Council: Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Apportionment of Tariff Rate Quotas following the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom
→ IEG Policy: Council agrees position on TRQs after Brexit
UK Parliament: Time short for addressing urgent Brexit challenges for NI farming
→World Trade Organisation Update: Written statement – HCWS1034
→→ IEG Policy: UK to enter into negotiations with WTO partners on Goods Schedule after TRQ objections
→→ Extending the Brexit ‘transition’ has a by-product: more time to sort out tariff quotas
UK Parliament – House of Lords: Brexit and plant and animal biosecurity (report)
UK Food and Drink Federation (FDF): Q3 2018 Food & Drink Business Confidence Survey
Global Meat News: No-deal Brexit would ‘damage’ British poultry industry
The Conversation: Rise of the ‘megafarms’: how UK agriculture is being sold off and consolidated
IEG Policy: The Brexit end-game: examining possible outcomes for the agri-food sector
→ New US trade deal with Canada and Mexico should put UK food sector on red alert
→New packaging tax and prospect of “no deal” Brexit burden UK food industry
→No longer-term guarantees for UK agricultural support, ministers admit
→Animal exports could stop temporarily under no-deal Brexit, Lords committee hears
→No-deal Brexit ‘dangerous’ for UK livestock industry, say industry experts
→Gove ensures farm funding will not be “Barnett-ised” after Brexit
→UK fruit and vegetable sector “likely to contract” after Brexit, says government adviser

3. EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND OTHER EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Council – Austrian Presidency:
Priorities
→Keynote address before the European Parliament – presentation of the Austrian Presidency’s priorities
→Programme of the Austrian Presidency
Council: Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), 18-19/10/2018
→EP – EPRS: The EU and Asia – Briefing
Council: EU action to restrict plastic pollution: Council agrees its position
→EP: News – Plastic Oceans: MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021
EC: Published initiatives
EC: Contribute law making (New ‘Better regulation’ portal and REFIT platform)  &
EC: Corrigendum to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 (OJ L 262 of 19 October 2018)
→Corrigendum to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 (OJ L 260 of 17 October 2018)
→Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007
EC: European Citizens’ Initiative: Commission registers ‘Mandatory food labelling Non-Vegetarian / Vegetarian / Vegan’ initiative’
→Official Register
→IEG Policy: Europe-wide petition demanding vegan and vegetarian labelling to launch
EC – Speeches: Keynote Address by Commissioner Phil Hogan at Copa-Cogeca Farmers Congress 2018, Linz, Austria
EC: Monitoring EU agri-food trade: Development until August 2018
→IEG Policy: EU exports are stable with wine, sugar and spirits performing well
EC: Report: EU trade agreements deliver on growth and jobs, support sustainable development
→Report on implementation of EU Free Trade Agreements 2017
→→IEG Policy: EU releases second annual report on state of its free trade agreements
EC: Chafea – Promotion of agricultural products
→Simple and Multi programmes
→ Commission decision on simple programmes 2018
→→IEG Policy: Commission disburses €172 million to promote EU agri-food products in and outside the EU
EC: European Commission state aid decision to cover damages caused by wolves and other protected animals
→IEG Policy: Commission amends state aid rules to fully reimburse damage to farmers caused by wild animals
EC: Brazil – Residues and contaminants in live animals and animal products (Audit Report)
→IEG Policy: Brazil will extend antibiotic tests on meat after critical EU report
EC: EU farm policy (CAP) – evaluation of its impacts on habitats, landscapes and biodiversity – Roadmap
→EU farm policy (CAP) – evaluation of its impacts on water – Roadmap
EC: Food safety – Draft implementing decision on crisis management plan for food animal feed
→Food safety – Plant Health – Draft implementing directive on import rules to protect plants
→Food safety – Plant Health – Draft implementing regulation on minimum plant health checks on plants
EC: Mid-term evaluation of the EU-Africa fund – Roadmap
EC: Vertical Block Exemption Regulation – Evaluation Roadmap
EC: Nitrates Directive – Latest Commission implementing report
→IEG Policy: Agriculture main cause of “poor chemical condition” of Germany’s groundwater – NGO
→→Commission sends Italy and Spain a warning over nitrate pollution
EC – EU Science Hub: Towards the reduction of added sugars in food
EC – Eurostat: Sales of pesticides by type of pesticide
→Pesticide sales
→News – Sales of pesticides in the EU
→→IEG Policy: Spain, France and Italy have highest pesticide sales in the EU
→→→MEP calls for more action on sustainable pesticide use
European Medicines Agency (EMA): Sales of veterinary antimicrobial agents in 30 European countries in 2016 – Trends from 2010 to 2016
JRC: Newsletter, November 2018
EP: AGRI Committee Newsletter
→AGRI meetings – documents 
 →AGRI Hearings – A comparative analysis of global agricultural policies. Lessons for Europe? – 25-09-2017 – Video
→Research for AGRI – Updates
→Research for AGRI – News, October 2018
→Research for AGRI – Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in the EU
EP: Draft Resolution on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain
→News – Food supply chain: A step closer to ending unfair trading
→EP procedure file
→Legislative train schedule
→→IEG Policy: De Castro gets green light to start talks on UTPs law
→→→Consumer group calls on MEPs to reject bid to start talks with Council on UTPs
→EuroCommerce: Make sure UTP negotiations help farmers – and consumers
→UTP Directive in European Parliament plenary: Frontal attack on retailers will hurt consumers and do nothing for farmers
→→IEG Policy: Retailers’ chief calls on MEPs not to let talks with Council start on UTP law
EP: Resolution on animal welfare, antimicrobial use and the environmental impact of industrial broiler farming (25 October)
→News – Broiler welfare: Parliament calls for better industrial poultry farming
→→EG Policy: MEPs adopt resolution to up the welfare of broiler chickens
→→→Labelling of processed poultry from third countries should be mandatory, say MEPs
EP: Research for REGI Committee – Externalities of Cohesion Policy
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

FAO: Food Price Index
World Food Situation
→ IEG Policy: Food prices fall in October led by dairy and meat
AMIS: Market Monitor – Issues
→ Market Monitor No 63, November 2018
One Soil: Interactive map with AI detecting fields and crops
→IEG Policy: Precision farming start-up shares free agricultural data for 43 countries
COPA – COGECA: Press release – Back to normal for the European wine-growing sector following historic low in 2017
→YouTube
→→IEG Policy: EU wine production back to normal after historic 2017 low
Global Panel: Preventing nutrient loss and waste across the food system: Policy actions for high-quality diets (Policy Brief No 12, November 2018)
VOX – CEPR Policy Portal: The impacts of export taxes on agricultural trade
ETC Group: Blocking the chain : Industrial food chain concentration, Big Data platforms and food sovereignty solutions
OECD: Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in China
→The Economic Effects of Public Stockholding Policies for Rice in Asia
World Economic Forum: Nearly half our calories come from just 3 crops. This needs to change
→These super crops could help tackle global hunger
→Is that a farm on your roof? Agriculture is thriving in some unexpected places
→China has made a shocking food production discovery – electro culture
→How can we make entrepreneurship serve the greater good?
Choices Magazine (AAEA): Engaging Consumers in the Dynamic Local Foods Marketplace
→America’s Dairy Industry Facing Difficulties from Long-Running Structural Changes
IPES-Food: Latest reports
→Breaking away from industrial food and farming systems: Seven case studies of agroecological transition (report)
→From unity to diversity: A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems
KU Leuven – LICOS: Jobs and Agricultural Policy: Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on EU Agricultural Employment, LICOS Discussion Papers
→Centre d’études et de prospective (CEP) (FR): Évaluation de l’impact de la PAC sur les flux de main-d’œuvre agricole
Wageningen University & Research: Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Chain: Regulating Right?
→Newsletter October 2018
TSC – The Sustainable Consortium: TSC Impact report 2018 Transparent Food Supply Chains 
Kantar World Panel: Newsletter October 2018
→November 2018
American Journal of Agricultural Economics: Advance articles
European Review of Agricultural Economics: Advance articles
→Volume 45, Issue 5
Agroinsurance: World News Summary, October 2018
IFPRI: Compact 2025 End Hunger and Undernutrition – 10 October 2018
→24 October 2018
→7 November 2018
→Unraveling reforms? Cotton in the 2018 Farm Bill
AFD (Agence Française de Développement): Waste, how much does it cost?
CIHEAM: Newsletter
Agriculture: Volume 8, Issue 10
Foods: Volume 7, Issue 10
Gro Intelligence: Gro Intelligence Weekly – 12 October
→Lentils and Chickpeas: How Does Your Superfood Grow?
→Canada’s Spring Wheat Seeing Lower Yields, Higher Production
SOL: Alea iacta es: how Spanish olives will force a radical change of the CAP (J. Berthelot) (FR)
Eur Activ: Ecuador to rally banana exporters to fight hard discounter Aldi
→Agriculture expert: Like organic, transition to digital farming needs support
Food Tank: Seeds of Resistance, Harvests of Hope: Farmers Halt a Land Grab in Mozambique
ENRD: Newsletter October 2018
Corteva Agriscience: Women in Agriculture Say Barriers to Equality Persist, Removal Could Take Decades, Study Reveals
→IEG Policy: Women in agriculture still face “widespread” gender discrimination – study
Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation – A European Coalition: Manifesto
→IEG Policy: Coalition calls for change to EU pesticides’ approval rules
Arc2020: November Newsletter
→October Newsletter
→→Too Much, Too Soon. Why Switzerland Voted Against a More Sustainable Food System
→→If Not Meat Then What? Climate Change, Regenerative Ag and Viable Rural Areas
International Olive Council: Market Newsletter, October (FR)
Eco-Logical: Spanish Organic sector 2018
Farmlandgrab.org: China hungers for Brazil’s grain
US CRS – Latest publications: Agriculture and Related Agencies: FY2019 Appropriations
→Expiration of the 2014 Farm Bill
→Expiration of the 2014 Farm Bill: Some Potential Implications
→→Farm Policy News: Expiration of the 2014 Farm Bill, CRS Report
→→Agricultural Economic Insight: Similar Farm Bill Choices, Different Farm Economy
Farm Policy News (US):

Farmdoc Daily (US):

USDA – ERS: Amber Waves
→New National Menu Labeling Provides Information Consumers Can Use To Help Manage Their Calorie Intake
An Exploration of Crop Markets: A Deeper Look Into the USDA Crop Baseline Projections (ERS report)
→→Farm Policy News: ERS Report- “An Exploration of Crop Markets: A Deeper Look Into the USDA Crop Baseline Projections”
US Meat Export Federation: Statistics 2018
Food and Water Watch (US): Coalition letter to Members of US Congress requesting ‘Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2018’
One Illinois (US): Soybeans face long-term decline. Trump trade war pushes China to buy from Brazil, Argentina
Open Democracy: The US-China trade war and Brazil
Politico: Trump tariffs lead to bleak 2019 farm forecasts

Global Meat: News

Dairy Reporter: News

The Beef Site Newsletter & The Dairy Site Newsletter
FARM – Le blog de la Fondation (FR): Un monde agricole désarticulé (Bertrand Hervieu)
Académie d’Agriculture de France: Biologie de synthèse et agronomie
Centre d’études et de prospective (CEP) (FR): Bulletin de veille 16/10/2018
FranceAgriMer (FR): Web site & Actualite
→Filière sucre
→Info riz
→Bilan vin effervescent 2017
→Note de conjoncture plantes aromatiques
Agrisalon (FR): À la une
→Le soja affecté par la guerre commerciale sino-américaine
→Mais et soja plient avec la météo et les ventes américaines
→Les frets secs déraillent, les pétroliers grimpent
→Que mangerons nous en 2050 ? L’agroalimentaire face à ses tiraillements
Terre Net (FR): « Les aides Pac actuelles disparaîtront un jour » (Jean-Marie Séronie)
Revue Laitière Française (FR): Newsletter octobre
Pleinchamp.com: L’agriculture urbaine face à la réglementation, Fiscalité-Juridique
AgrIDées (FR): Le Haut Conseil de la Coopération Agricole : une journée sur la gouvernance des coopératives
→La « loi agriculture et alimentation », censurée uniquement pour ses « cavaliers »!
Eur Activ (FR): Opération anti-accaparement foncier en Auvergne Rhône-Alpes
Reporterre (FR): La ferme où les robots remplacent les paysans
Racine – Flash Info (FR): Décodage de la Loi “pour l’équilibre des relations commerciales dans le secteur agricole et alimentaire et une alimentation saine et durable
Le Figaro (FR): Loi anti-gaspillage alimentaire : quel bilan après 18 mois?
→Contre le fléau du gaspillage alimentaire, un collège installe «une table de troc»

5. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

INRA: Towards chemical pesticide-free agriculture (Report)
→IEG Policy: Paper maps route for transition to pesticide-free farming
Nature Communications: Diverging importance of drought stress for maize and winter wheat in Europe
Nature sustainability: The water footprint of different diets within European subnational geographical entities
Global Food Security: The role of trade in the greenhouse gas footprints of EU diets
→IEG Policy: Trade in agri-food products has “marginal” share in EU food emissions – study
Eur Activ: The Brief – Climate cabal
→‘Risk data hub’ to enhance EU resilience to climate hazards
→Drinks giants rail against EU bottle cap plan
→Behind-the-curtain of the EU’s 2050 climate plan
OECD: Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060. Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences
Science Magazine: Pesticide affects social behaviour of bees
→Neonicotinoid exposure disrupts bumblebee nest behaviour, social networks and thermoregulation
→Global pattern of nest predators is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds
ICTSD: Emerging Opportunities for the Application of Blockchain in the Agri-food Industry
Gro Intelligence: How Scientists Are Helping Farm Crops Adapt to Climate Change
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: Advance articles
Sustainability: Volume 10, Issue 10
Environments: Issue 5, Issue 10
Water: Volume 10, Issue 10
Forests: Volume 9, Issue 10
Energies: Volume 11, Issue 10
The Guardian: Air pollution is the new tobacco. Time to tackle this epidemic
→Ban entire pesticide class to protect children’s health, experts say
→Fruit, veg and family life – why Spaniards are living longer
Natures, Sciences, Sociétés (FR): Regards d’écologues sur le premier site naturel de compensation français

6. OTHER ISSUES

EC: EU – Vietnam Trade agreement
→Commission presents EU-Vietnam trade deal for conclusion
Center for Science in the Public Interest: European Union Issues Crucial Ruling on Regulating Gene-Edited Organisms as GMOs
→Cornell – Alliance for Science: EU will regulate gene-edited organisms as GMO
→EU Law Analysis: EU law and genetic mutations: does a recent CJEU ruling show an irrational fear of mutation?
→Science Media Centre: Expert reaction to Court of Justice of the European Union ruling that GMO rules should cover plant genome editing techniques
WTO: International statement on agricultural applications of precision biotechnology – Communication from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, and the USA
→IEG Policy: Perdue lauds work at WTO to facilitate biotech regulation
Sustainable Pulse: The Creator of GMO Potatoes Reveals The Dangerous Truth – Exclusive Interview
IEG Policy: EU Ombudsman probes Commission refusal to review decision on GM crops
VIB: European scientists unite to safeguard precision breeding for sustainable agriculture
ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) – The Lancet: Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis and here
Fast Company: Why the cooperative model needs to be at the heart of our new economy
Notre Europe –Jacques DelorsInstitute: Spitzenkandidaten: L’Infography (FR)
→European Parliament 2019: The Parliament and Europe to come (FR)
→EU and US sanctions: which sovereignty?
→Social Europe: from slogan to reality
Friends of Europe: EU – Africa High Level Group of personalities – For strategic and effective EU – Africa relations
Econpol: Newsletter – Global trade and protectionism – what next for the EU?
European Journal of International Law: Volume 29, Issue 3
Our World in Data: Newsletter
→Now it is possible to take stock – did the world achieve the Millennium Development Goals?
→Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
UKTPO: The Real Donald Trump: A Free Trader in Protectionist Clothing or Vice Versa?
World Bank: World Bank’s Income Groups
EU Observer: A deep dive into the EU regional funds
Eur Activ; Expert: US-China dispute ‘is not a trade but economic war’
IEG Policy: Global repercussions as new trans-Pacific trade deal enters into force
→WTO reform needed but not everything targeted by the ‘Ottawa 13’ is in crisis
→Clashes emerge at WTO session on US metals duties, Chinese intellectual property rules
→Efforts to reform the WTO intensify, but can key players be persuaded?
Gov.UK: Impact assessment of the EU-Japan economic partnership agreement (EPA) on the UK
OECD: Trade News
→Trade Policy and Global Economy. Scenario 1 : Reducing tariffs
→Trade Policy and Global Economy. Scenario 2 : Increasing tariffs
ICTSD – Bridges weekly: Volume 22, Number 37, 8 November 2018 – US Midterm Elections: Incoming Congress to Face Slate of Trade Policy Considerations
→Volume 22, Number 36, 1 November
→Volume 22, Number 35, 25 October
→Volume 22, Number 34, 18 October
→Volume 22, Number 33, 11 October
→WTO Modernisation: Ministers Arrive in Ottawa for High-level Trade Talks
Borderlex: Newsletter 29 October
→Newsletter 16 October
Eur Activ: China responds to Trump’s barriers by opening its wallet
AmCham EU: Weekly
CESifo Economic Studies: Advance articles
→Newsletter
The Review of Economic Studies: Advance articles
European Review of Economic History: Advance articles

7. EVENTS

IATP Webinar: “New NAFTA”: New red tape for regulators? (16 November)
Bird Life / NABU / EEB: How a bill becomes a better CAP?, International Workshop, Brussels, 22/11/2018
Politico: Agriculture & Food Summit 2018 (Paris, 27 November 2018) Registration
ELO: Biodiversity Conference and European Bee Award (4 December) Registration and agenda of Conference
Public Policy Exchange: Food Safety in EU (29 January 2019)
EAEE: Agricultural Land Markets – Recent Developments, Efficiency and Regulation (EAEE Seminar) (4-5 April 2019)
EAAE -EC – JRC: 172nd European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Seminar: Agricultural policy for the environment or environmental policy for agriculture? (28-29 May 2019, Brussels)
Area: Prix area 2018
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)

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