The farmers' organisation Via Campesina met MEPs from the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture on 27 November to inform them of its seven main demands on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The first is that it should make it possible to maintain agricultural activity oriented towards the production of foodstuffs and not biofuels in all rural areas. Via Campesina also advocates a better distribution of direct support with a mandatory ceiling for direct payments of...