In an opinion on support for young farmers that was adopted on Thursday 9 February, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) called for action to address land grabbing.
The shortage of land to buy or to rent is the biggest problem facing young farmers and new entrants into farming, notes the CoR in an opinion drafted by Arnold Hatch (ECR, UK), member of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council in Northern Ireland.
The European Commission has only a very limited scope of action to intervene in land...