NGOs make a strong call to reform the CAP by shifting substantial financial support to High Nature Value (HNV) farming. Launching views on how support could be directed towards low intensity farming in the EU, the four NGOs turn the spotlight on the urgent need to maintain specific farming systems.

A recent paper has been published on environmental governance in Hungary which focuses on rural development policies and social learning during the implementation of EU agri-environment policies.

This article introduces the first of a series of seminars organized by ECIPE and reformthecap.eu to help non-experts determine the facts.

The German Advisory Council on the Environment calls for a fundamental re-orientation of European agricultural policy in its statement on CAP-reform.

The UN Millennium Campaign Founder, Eveline Herfkens, will discuss how the CAP hurts the poor and undermines development efforts, during a seminar organized by the United Nations Millennium Campaign in Brussels on 29 April.

The UK's House of Lords EU Committee yesterday published its report on adapting agriculture and forestry to climate change. The Committee’s inquiry has focused on the European Commission White Paper, Adapting to Climate Change: Towards a European framework for action from April 2009.

More sites dedicated to the CAP are becoming available and multi-issue sites improve their coverage of CAP issues. This post takes a closer, comparative look at three leading sites: cap2020, capreform and reformthecap.

Participants to the Set Aside symposium the 2nd European Congress of Conservation Biology on "Conservation biology and beyond: from science to practice“ in Prague last year made this joint statement.

An alliance of European, national and local civil society organisations concerned with the future of food and agriculture in Europe, are today launching a ‘European food declaration’ to mobilise European citizens and authorities to reshape the CAP.

Many argue that we should first agree on the objectives of the future CAP, then select the most suitable policy instruments, and talk about financing only at the very end. This contribution submits four theses on co-financing, asking ‘how strong is the European interest, and how can CAP contributions to agricultural subsidies be adapted to it’?

The CLA and RSPB today (Wednesday, 27 January) launch their joint vision for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

A new publication makes the link between food, energy and education.

Is there a need to protect prime agricultural land in Europe? A new note published by Alterra discusses the pressures currently facing agricultural land in Europe.

This recent publication attempts to estimate the benefits to the EU of eliminating the CAP using recent data in a general equilibrium framework.

BirdLife International have launched a new critical report on the EU’s Agricultural Policy. The report, ‘Through the green smokescreen. How is CAP cross compliance delivering for biodiversity?’ analyses cross compliance, the system of rules attached to the receipt of the bulk of EU CAP subsidies.