For the forthcoming debate on the common agricultural policy (CAP) after 2020, European Coordination Via Campesina argues in a press release on Thursday 12 January for an “Agriculture and Food Policy serving the needs of the people” (see EUROPE 11683).
The organisation takes the view that, through the reforms, the CAP has “abandoned its feeding function” and is now just “an inequitable distribution” of grants related to areas. It says that environmental measures fail to reduce...