Every month, we create an extensive database comprising all the relevant information to the work of the AGRI Committee members. You can find here recent key documents, research and think tank papers, news, legislation initiatives, and events on AGRI topics.
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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. AGRI GENERAL ISSUES & AGRI TRADE CONCERNS
EC: Joint Communication – A new EU-US agenda for global change, 2 December 2020
EC: Special Eurobarometer 504, ‘Europeans, Agriculture & the CAP’, October 2020
EC: Monitoring EU Agri-food trade: developments January – August 2020, December 2020
EP: Data flows, artificial intelligence and international trade: impacts and prospects for the value chains of the future, External Study, November 2020
EP –STOA: : Slowing down or changing track? Understanding the dynamics of ‘Slowbalisation’, In-Depth Analysis, 3 December 202
What if AI could help us become ‘greener’?, At a Glance, 20 November 2020
FAO: The State of Food and Agriculture – Overcoming water challenges in agriculture, SAFO Report 2020
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 31 – Water accounting and auditing for better water management
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 32 – Overcoming water scarcity with sustainable irrigation
CommodAfrica (FR): La FAO sonne l’alarme, les ressources mondiales en eau douce disponibles ont diminué de 20 % en 20 ans, 27 novembre 2020
FAO: Food Price Index – Sharp rise in November to its highest level in nearly six years, 3 December 2020
Crop Watch: Bulletin, Vol 20, Nº 4, November 2020
Bruegel: The impact of the new Asian trade mega-deal on the European Union, 19 November 2020
Europe is losing competitiveness in global value chains while China surges, 27 November 2020
Food Drink Europe: The numbers behind food and drink, Press Release, 6 November 2020
NEWS Click: Why Agriculture Shouldn’t Be Left to Free Market, 12 December 2020
Munich Re: Extreme weather risks: Re|store people’s lives, December 2020
Deloitte – EIT –Food: Food Foresight Report https://www.eitfood.eu/food-foresight
The Land Inequality Initiative: Uneven ground – Land Inequalities at the heart of unequal societies – Research findings, 24 November 2020
The World Inequality Lab: World Inequality Data base (WID)
The Guardian: 1% of farms operate 70% of world’s farmland, 24 November 2020
Siècle Digital (FR): 70% des terres agricoles de la planète appartiennent à 1% des exploitations, 27 novembre 2020
EAAE: 4th EAAE Webinar on ‘Challenges and opportunities of machine learning in agricultural economics and policy evaluation’, 4 November 2020 – Presentations Slides
Food Policy: Can low-income households afford a healthy diet? Insufficient income as a driver of food insecurity in Europe, 3 October 2020
Smallholders’ perceptions and preferences for market attributes promoting sustained participation in modern agricultural value chains, Vol 97, December 2020
The effectiveness of taxes in decreasing candy purchases, Vol 97, December 2020
The Hill (US): Biden to enlist Agriculture, Transportation agencies in climate fight, 18 November 2020
Huntsville Tribune (US): The fight over Joe Biden tapping Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary, explained, 12 December 2020
Vox (US): Biden could do a lot to fight factory farming even without Congress, 17 November 2020
IATP (Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy): After Trump’s pay-outs are gone, what happens to farmers?, 13 November 2020
DHS (US): Threats to Precision Agriculture
Dialogo Chino: Biden and the US-China-Latin America Triangle, 4 December 2020
BFM – RMC (FR): “Personne n’est venu!”: le désarroi de ces agriculteurs qui ne trouvent pas de main d’œuvre en France, 9 décembre 2020
McKinsey and Company: Unlocking the online retail opportunity with European farmers, 19 August 2020
Journal of Applied Ecology: Targeted policy proposals for managing spontaneous forest expansion in the Mediterranean, 15 October 2020
Greenpeace – Unearthed: Cargill: the company feeding the world by helping destroy the planet, 25 November 2020
Migration Policy Centre: Challenges for a coherent approach to food system resilience within the EU, November 2020
Arc2020: Newsletter, December 2020
The Conversation (FR): Comment l’économie expérimentale peut aider l’agriculture à être en phase avec son temps , 8 novembre 2020
Chine Info (FR): En Chine, déjà l’agriculture du futur?, 16 novembre 2020
France Culture (FR): Manque de bras dans l’agriculture : la solution robotisation?, 2 juillet 2020
Chambres d’Agriculture (FR): Lettre économique des Chambres d’Agricultures Nº 409, Novembre 2020 – L’agriculture européenne au risque du Green Deal
CommodAfrica (FR): Quel rôle joue l’Afrique dans l’évolution des marchés mondiaux agricoles?, 16 novembre 2020
2. DOSSIERS
Council: European Council conclusions, 10-11 December 2020
Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers Council of 16 November 2020 – Main results and preparatory documents
AGRIFISH Council meeting 15-16 December 2020 – Agenda
EC: New search data base for geographical indications in the EU (Press release) GI view
EC: Publication of evaluation support study on mandatory indication of country of origin labelling for certain meats, 12 November 2020
EC: Regulation (EU) 2020/1693 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 November 2020 amending Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on organic production and labelling of organic products as regards its date of application and certain other dates referred to in that Regulation, OJ l 381, 13 November 2020
EP – EPRS: EU financing for 2021-2027: Political agreement on the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery instrument and new own resources, Briefing, 9 December 2020
EP – EPRS: Transitional provisions for the CAP post 2020, 1 October 2020
ENRD: Assessing the contribution of RDPs to a competitive and viable agricultural sector, December 2020
Long-term rural areas vision portal
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy: EU‐Wide Impacts of the 2013 CAP Direct Payments Reform: A Farm‐Level Analysis, Vol 42, Issue 4, February 2020
Eur Activ: Commission back-pedals on CAP withdrawal after rattling farm ministers, 27 November 2020
Can the EU Commission scrap its CAP plan?, 26 November 2020
Agri-Mutuel (FR): Paiement redistributif, plafonnement : Quel impact potentiel de ces outils de la PAC sur les exploitations françaises?, 26 novembre 2020
EP – Policy Department B: Research for the AGRI Committee – The Green Deal and the CAP: policy implications to adapt farming practices and to preserve the EU’s natural resources, Study & Annex, 23 November 2020
EP Press release – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/the-green-deal-and-the-cap/product-details/20201124CAN58748
Farm Europe: Green Deal & CAP: FE analysis of COMAGRI report https://www.farm-europe.eu/news/green-deal-cap-fe-analysis-of-comagri-report/ 2 December 2020
(FR version) Plan Vert & PAC: Analyse de FE de l’étude de la COMAGRI https://www.farm-europe.eu/fr/blog/plan-vert-pac-analyse-de-fe-de-letude-comagri/ 2 décembre 2020
Agence Europe: European Green Deal objectives are still far from being achieved, according to INRAE https://agenceurope.eu/en/bulletin/article/12613/12, 2 December 2020
(FR version) https://agenceurope.eu/fr/bulletin/article/12613/12, 2 décembre 2020
GWN – Good Word News: The Next CAP Would Not Make It Possible To Achieve The Objectives Of The Green Deal As It Is, 27 November 2020
INRAE (FR): Communiqué de Presse – PAC et Green Deal, quelle compatibilité ? Une étude de chercheurs d’INRAE et d’Agro ParisTech sur les priorités climatiques et environnementales pour la future PAC, 26 novembre 2020
Le Monde (FR): La prochaine PAC ne permettrait pas en l’état d’atteindre les objectifs du Green Deal, 27 novembre 2020
EP – EPRS: Farm to Fork strategy – An overview of Parliament’s positions, 12 November 2020
EC: Working with Parliament and Council to make the CAP reform fit for the European Green Deal, European Commission factsheet, November 2020
EC: European Climate Pact, Communication, COM (2020) 788 of 9 December 2020
EC: EU Climate Action Progress Report, November 2020 https://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/clima/files/strategies/progress/docs/com_2020_777_en.pdf, 30 November 2020
EC: Sustainable Finance – EU classification system for green investments, Public consultation 20 November – 18 December 2020
EC: EU Soil Observatory (USO) launched on 4 December 2020
European Council: Conclusions on an EU-wide animal welfare label – Draft in Annex, 7 December 2020
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): Judgement of the Court of 3 December 2020, Case 152/19 P on the renewal of the approval of the active substance glyphosate (the Court rejects bid to annul glyphosate approval)
EP-EPRS: What if crop protection were environment-friendly?, At a Glance, February 2020
EFSA: Scientific opinion – Guidance on date marking and related information (Part 1), October 2020
European Committee of Regions: The impact of climate change on regions: an assessment of the European Green Deal, Draft Opinion, 10 December 2020
ENRD: The European Green Deal and Rural Areas
OECD: The Paris Agreement 5 years on: Taking stock and looking forward, 11 December 2020
OECD Environment milestones 1966 – 2020, December 2020
CAP Reform: EU Farm to Fork Strategy: How reasonable is the turmoil predicted by USDA? (Y Zimmer), 7 December 2020
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy: Impacts of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy “Greening” Reform on Agricultural Development, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services, Vol 42, Issue 4, February 2020
Farm Europe: Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies – The Commission should come out clean on the real impact, 25 November 2020
LinkedIn: Waiting for the impact assessment… (Pekka Pesonen, COPA – COGECA), 1 December 2020
Climate emergency galvanising the food industry, Food Drink Europe, 9 December 2020
Oxfam – The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI): Confronting Carbon Inequality in the EU Union, Report, 7 December 2020
SEI: Database – Emissions Inequality Dashboard
EU Observer: EU’s richest 10% responsible for over quarter of emissions, 8 December 2020
Green Peace: The Future of Forests in the European Union, November 2020
WWF and other: Civil Society Statement: Ten Priorities for the Climate Taxonomy – Draft Delegated Act, December 2020
Gov.ie: ‘Ag Climatise’ – A Roadmap towards Climate Neutrality, 9 December 2020
Sustainability: Designing Rural Policies for Sustainable Innovations through a Participatory Approach, November 2020.
Science of the Total Environment: Environmental and nutritional impacts of dietary changes in Spain during the COVID-19 lockdown, 15 December 2020
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity: Prospective association between organic food consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: findings from the NutriNet-Santé cohort study, 9 November 2020
Agricultural and Food Economics: Supervising third-party control bodies for certification: the case of organic farming in Italy, 13 November 2020
EU Observer: EU emissions down 24% on 1990 – but still off 2030 target https://euobserver.com/green-deal/150230?utm_source=euobs&utm_medium=email 1 December 2020
Eur Activ: The EU’s green finance taxonomy: an Orwellian mechanism, 20 November 2020 (FR) Taxonomie, une mécanique orwellienne, 24 novembre 2020
Olive Oil Times: Nutri-Score Will Damage Olive Oil Trade, Italian Producers Argue, 29 November 2020
The Good News: First steps towards a strong European Health Union, Newsletter, December 2020
Ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation (Gouv.fr) (FR): 4 pour 1000 : stocker le carbone dans le sol pour lutter contre le changement climatique, décembre 2020
Agri Mutuel (FR): Sortie du glyphosate – Macron dit ne pas avoir « réussi » et plaide un échec «collectif», 4 décembre 2020
Eur Activ (FR): Le glyphosate, encore utilisé et toujours contesté, 27 novembre 2020
Ouest-France (FR): Climat, environnement, nutrition, santé : les injonctions contradictoires de l’Europe, 9 décembre 2020
EC: Communication and legislative proposals from the EC on limited contingency measures in the absence of an agreement on a future partnership with the UK, 10 December 2020
UKTPO: A quick recap on the costs of No Deal, 15 December 2020
UK-EU trade relations: A checklist of 10 key issues, 20 November 2020
Politico: Johnson, von der Leyen agree to continue Brexit negotiations, 13 December 2020
Food Drink Europe: Joint statement – EU-UK trade relations after Brexit, 9 December 2020
The Guardian: Tesco warns of higher prices if UK and EU fail to agree Brexit deal, 9 December 2020
RTE: Brexit and Ireland: Food chain disruption and the death of the land bridge, 28 November 2020
Agri-Mutuel (FR): Repères: Les étroites relations économiques franco-britanniques à l’épreuve du Brexit, 10 décembre 2020
La négociation se prolonge sous la menace d’un veto français, 4 décembre 2020
Accord post-Brexit« Tout peut basculer » à l’heure des ultimes marchandages, 4 décembre 2020
Brexit« Du mouvement » dans les négociations mais blocages persistants sur la pêche, 14 décembre 2020
Bertelsmann Stiftung: Europe Sustainable Development Report 2020 – Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, 8 December 2020
PReP – Pandemic Research for the People: Can agriculture stop COVID-21, -22, and -23? Yes, but not by greenwashing agribusiness, Dispatch 6, 2020
Nature: How COVID-19 is changing the cold and flu season, 15 December 2020
EP – EPRS: Coronavirus crisis support for EU farmers, April 2020
RMT – Alimentation Locale (FR): Enquête | Les outils numériques de vente en circuits courts, Rapport, 7 décembre 2020
3. EVENTS
EC: EU Agricultural Outlook Conference 2020, Virtual event, 16 December 2020 – 17 December 2020
ULB – Solvay Brussels School: COVID 19: Policy Responses and Implications for the Future of our Economics – A conversation with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, 18 December 2020
With acknowledgements to IEG Policy, Politico, CAP Reform.eu, Euractiv, Centre d ‘études et de prospective, Illinois.edu, FranceAgriMer and Tomás Garcia Azcárate (EAGRA)
