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    Target-compatible Environmental Payments under the CAP – Economic Requirements and Legal Scope

    Target-compatible Environmental Payments under the CAP – Economic Requirements and Legal Scope Written by Rudolf Mögele and Martin Scheele This guest post is contributed by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mögele and Prof. Dr. Martin Scheele. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mögele is Honorary Professor at the University of...
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    What does the Commission’s proposed 2040 climate target mean for agriculture?

    What does the Commission’s proposed 2040 climate target mean for agriculture? Written by Alan Matthews On 6 February last, the Commission published its Communication Securing our future: Europe’s 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050 building a sustainable, just and...
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    Who feeds Europe, and how much do they earn?

    Who feeds Europe, and how much do they earn? Written by Alan Matthews One of the demands in the ongoing farmer protests is for fair prices and a fair income. But how many farmers are there and what do individual farmers earn? In my previous post, I examined income trends at an aggregate level...
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    What is actually happening with agricultural incomes?

    What is actually happening with agricultural incomes? Written by Alan Matthews Farming protests are currently taking place in several European countries. Several reasons are advanced for what is prompting these demonstrations – concerns over incomes and rising costs, the burden of additional...
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    The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change 2024 progress report and agricultural emissions reduction

    The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change 2024 progress report and agricultural emissions reduction Written by Alan Matthews The newly established European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) first made its mark when delivering its advice to the Commission in...
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    European Parliament polling reaches tipping point for right-of-centre majority

    European Parliament polling reaches tipping point for right-of-centre majority Written by Alan Matthews Latest polling results from the three institutions that provide regular updates on seat projections for the European Parliament elections in June 2024 now point for the first time to the...
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    Contrasting recent decisions on pesticides

    Contrasting recent decisions on pesticides Written by Alan Matthews During the past week, I was intrigued by a post on the social media platform X from Pascal Canfin, Chair of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in the European Parliament which in translation read: “We...
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    Trilogues begin on the Certification Framework for Carbon Removals Regulation

    Trilogues begin on the Certification Framework for Carbon Removals Regulation Written by Alan Matthews The Commission put forward its legislative proposal for a Certification Framework for Carbon Removals (CFCR) in November 2022. The Regulation has the two broad objectives to define quality...
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    Europe’s future of food – articulating food security, sovereignty and sustainability

    Europe’s future of food – articulating food security, sovereignty and sustainability Written by Alan Matthews I was pleased to be invited to give a talk at the EIT Food conference on the future of food last Thursday where the organisers had given me the very ambitious title at the head of this...
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    How to advance the green transition in the next CAP post 2027

    How to advance the green transition in the next CAP post 2027 Written by Alan Matthews Even though the latest changes in the CAP regulations only came into force on 1 January this year, attention is already beginning to focus on potential further changes to the CAP after the end of the current...
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    Carbon removal certification and carbon farming

    Carbon removal certification and carbon farming Written by Alan Matthews The concept of ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions enshrined as the EU target in the European Climate Law implies that there will continue to be ‘unavoidable’ emissions in 2050 which will need to be offset by carbon...
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    Food prices stabilising but yet to fall

    Food prices stabilising but yet to fall Written by Alan Matthews I wrote a blog post in March this year “Food price inflation gathers pace” which used inflation data up to February. I concluded that post by noting that “the explanation for the continuing rise in food price inflation is mostly...
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    What can we learn from New Zealand’s experience in introducing a scheme to price agricultural emissions?

    What can we learn from New Zealand’s experience in introducing a scheme to price agricultural emissions? Written by Alan Matthews The European Union is pondering the possible introduction of a pricing scheme for agricultural emissions as a way to accelerate the reduction in agricultural...
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    How might the political composition of the European Parliament change in the 2024 elections?

    How might the political composition of the European Parliament change in the 2024 elections? Written by Alan Matthews This post first appeared on LinkedIn on June 11, 2023 and is reproduced here without amendment. Since that date there have been national parliamentary elections in Greece and...
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    The development of Environmental Land Management in England: still a work in progress

    The development of Environmental Land Management in England: still a work in progress Written by Ian Hodge We are pleased to publish this discussion of recent developments in UK (England’s) post-Brexit agricultural policy by Professor Ian Hodge of the Department of Land Economy, University of...
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    Food price inflation gathers pace

    Food price inflation gathers pace Written by Alan Matthews Overall inflation in the EU shows some tentative signs of moderating in the latest figures for the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) from Eurostat for February 2023. From a peak annual rate of inflation of 11.5% in October...
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    The changing distribution of CAP direct payments over time

    The changing distribution of CAP direct payments over time Written by Alan Matthews The distribution of CAP direct payments among farmers has been a continued source of controversy ever since the Commission’s 1991 Reflections Paper on the development and future of the CAP that prefigured the...
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    Conversation with a chatbot on the Common Agricultural Policy

    Conversation with a chatbot on the Common Agricultural Policy Written by Alan Matthews Artificial intelligence (AI) has been described as the fourth industrial revolution, following the invention of the steam engine, electric power, and the internet. AI tools can rapidly synthesize large...
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    2022: a record year for farm income

    2022: a record year for farm income Written by Alan Matthews 2022 was a challenging year for farming in the EU. Buffeted by weather extremes, disease outbreaks and rising input costs due partly to the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions but particularly following the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
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    Regulating the most polluting livestock farms is justified

    Regulating the most polluting livestock farms is justified Written by Alan Matthews This post was first published in Acid News No. 4, December 2022 and is reproduced here with permission. In April 2022 the Commission proposed to amend the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) to increase its...
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