Common Agricultural and Rural Policy for Europe | CARPE [Abbr.]

A National Agri-food Policy Conference

Agri-Food Policy Review

agri-foodstuffs [ agri-foodstuffs chain | Agri-food products(ECLAS) | Agro-industry(STW) | agriproduct processing(UNBIS) ]

Commission of Agriculture and Food Industries | Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EEC | Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU | CIAA [Abbr.]

food sciences | food study | food investigation | food science

food policy

consider an environmental friendly policy while processing food | follow an environmental friendly policy while processing foods | follow an environmental friendly policy while processing food | use an environmental friendly policy while processing food

One of the things that is happening on the research side is that the Canadian Agri-food Policy Institute is looking at the whole processing sector and is trying to identify some of those core factors.

Witnesses: Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute: .

82. Believes that agriculture is one of the sectors that can maintain a certain value creation despite the effects of the crisis: notes, however, that there is a shortage of farmers, in particular young farmers and female farmers; calls on the EU to undertake an in-depth analysis of the factors behind this with a view to implementing meaningful measures to counteract it; regrets that this phenomenon is putting at risk agricultural and rural patrimonies of worldwide importance, while at the same time large agro-business companies are expanding their margins and imposing their model of a global food system that entails destructive environmental effects; underlines that instead of big business, farmers must be at the centre of EU agricultural ...[+++] and food policies in order to truly boost growth and jobs in all the regions of the EU; regrets that the present policies are leading to the decimation of traditional family farms across the EU and subsequently to the decline of social and economic activity in rural areas;

87. Believes that European agriculture is one of the sectors that can maintain a certain value creation despite the effects of the crisis; however, the sector is missing many farmers and there is a serious lack of replacement with young farmers; regrets that this phenomenon is putting at risk our important agricultural and rural patrimonies of the world, at the same time that large agro-business companies are expanding their margins and imposing their model of a global food system that entails destructive environmental effects; underlines, therefore, that farmers, and not big business, must be at the centre of European agricultural and foods policies in order ...[+++]truly to boost growth and jobs in all the regions of the EU; notes that the present trend is leading to the decimation of traditional family farms across Europe and the associated decline of social and economic activity in rural areas;