SECTORAL POLICIES / Agriculture

CAP should do more to support women in rural areas, say MEPs

Brussels, 01/03/2017 (Agence Europe)

EU member states should pay particular attention to the needs of women in rural areas to halt depopulation, argued the agriculture and women’s rights committees on Tuesday 28 February.

In the EU between 2005 and 2010, 2.4 million mostly small or family farms disappeared. With their adoption of the report by Marijana Petir (EPP, Croatia) and Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez (GUE/NGL, Spain) on women and their roles in rural areas (by 56 votes to 5, with 3 abstentions), MEPs say that women’s...