{"id":94561,"date":"2018-09-20T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=94561"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:07:14","slug":"ministers-shut-green-groups-out-of-debate-on-eus-last-chance-farm-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/ministers-shut-green-groups-out-of-debate-on-eus-last-chance-farm-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers shut green groups out of debate on EU\u2019s \u2018last chance\u2019 farm policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

EU Agriculture Ministers will come together in Vienna next week<\/a> to discuss the next reform of the EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n

While representatives of the most intensive and polluting farms are time and time again given special access to these informal agriculture ministerial meetings, environmental civil society groups are shut out<\/strong> despite repeated requests for fair representation.<\/p>\n

In a new paper published today<\/strong><\/a>, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), BirdLife Europe, WWF, and Greenpeace call on ministers to ensure the next EU agricultural policy supports farmers in the transition to sustainable farming. <\/strong>The paper identifies the need for funding nature protection; ending perverse subsidies for intensive agriculture and factory farming; ensuring environmental laws on farms are truly enforced; and involving environmental bodies in the reform process.<\/p>\n

60 billion euro of EU taxpayers\u2019 money is currently spent every year on Common Agricultural Policy subsidies<\/strong> that mostly fund intensive and factory farming. A\u00a0recent evaluation<\/a>\u00a0[1] found that this direct payments system is failing the environment, society and the economy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But a public consultation on the CAP from last year<\/a> shows that citizens want the future CAP to prioritise environmental protection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ariel Brunner, Senior Head of Policy at BirdLife Europe, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cNature is dying at the hands of intensive farming.\u00a0Farm ministers hope that by excluding civil society from discussions their problems disappear, but in reality, it\u2019s only nature that disappears. This massacre can only stop by funding farmers to conserve nature<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Dupeux, Policy Offcer for Agriculture at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), said:<\/p>\n

\u201cPayments linked to agricultural production will not help farmers suffering from market imbalances and will harm the environment. It\u2019s time to give a clear signal to the farming community that time is up on the era of payments linked to intensive production at the cost of future generations\u2019 ability to farm.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jabier Ruiz, Senior Policy Officer, Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems at WWF EU, said:<\/p>\n

“We cannot afford to have another CAP reform which does not guide this sector towards sustainability. We call on co-legislators to redraft the policy proposals with the ambition needed to resolve crucial environmental challenges in the next decade.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n[1]\u00a0Carried out by a\u00a0group of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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