Agricultural Policy Blogs
Europe
Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos’s CAP debate site
Head to the site to join the debate on the future of the CAP, its principles and objectives.
CAP Health Check EU - Towards better European farming, food and rural policies
This Blog brings news, views and analysis relating to the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy and specifically the ‘health check’ (or policy review) scheduled for 2008. The blog brings together the work of researchers, activists and analysts from across Europe and elsewhere.
The personal blog of the BBC’s Europe Editor, Mark Mardell.
Rise Foundation Task Force Blog
The blog of the RISE (Rural Investment Support for Europe) Foundation’s Task Force. The Task Force, led by Professor Allan Buckwell, is a group of specialists in various disciplines from across Europe whose aim is to produce a study to collate the main existing information on public environmental and cultural landscape services delivered and deliverable by private land managers, and to communicate this across the EU-27. The project is supported by the Italian Government. The Task Force Blog presents a number of questions relating to the early stages of the study.
Wyn Grant’s Blog on the CAP and the political economy of the food chain.
This webpage is a resource for all those interested in CAP reform: politicians, civil servants, NGO activists, journalists and citizens. The aim is to foster a better understanding of what is at stake and how to shape the future CAP.
USA
FarmPolicy.com is a daily summary of news relating to U.S. farm policy.
Mulch Blog (USA) - Comments on Agriculture, Conservation and Biofuels
Written principally be Ken Cook, President of the Environmental Working Group. Also an entry point to EWG’s farm subsidy database.