The Green Energy Platform is pleased to invite you to our lunchtime event at Farm Europe premises on 

« Toward a Carbon neutral economy in Europe, Assessment of transport decarbonisation options for Member States”. 

To open the discussion, Carlo Hamelinck (Ecofys-Navigant) will unveil the final report presenting the most cost effective path for a transport policy that match with the ambition to keep climate change below 1.5°C, followed by a panel discussion with EU institutions, NGOs, and business representatives.

Kindly note that sandwiches & drinks will be served during the event.

We therefore thank you for your attention and we kindly ask you to confirm your attendance by sending an email to: info@farm-europe.eu 

Finally, we are at your complete disposal for any additional information you may need.

Kind regards,

Farm Europe’s Team

The Digital Agriculture Platform (DAP) will host its 2^nd meeting “in the field” very soon!

Our plans for this 2^nd meeting are a visit of the venue Bonifiche Ferraresi, Società Agricola during the first day, followed by a roundtable to assess and discuss the preliminary results that emerged from the pilot projects that already exist and that could feed the discussion around the CAP reform process, on the second day. Presentation and discussion on specific indicators able to show the outcomes obtained by farmers during the transition towards more sustainable systems will follow.

The venue Bonifiche Ferraresi, Società Agricola: 

An Italian agricultural company of 6,500 hectares, created in 1871 and currently active in the cultivation and marketing of agricultural products such as rice, maize, durum and soft wheat, barley, sugar beets, alfalfa, soya, vegetables, medicinal plants and fruit, which are distributed throughout the national territory. Furthermore, with the presence of an eco-zootechnical district with over 4600 stable places, Bonifiche Ferraresi has the ambition to become the largest fattening cattle farm in northern Italy.

The 1^st DAP meeting which took place last year on 26^th November in Pomerols, (France) was: (1) an opportunity to exchange views on the vision of smart/precision farming according to different actors’ perspectives, and (2) to discuss about the positioning of the platform and the needs for political and regulatory active presence in order to both boost and maximise the opportunities of digital agriculture.

Overall, the Platform’s reflection process is a key part of Farm Europe’s current analysis on the economic and environmental performance of the main agri-food systems, which is based on concrete data in order to appreciate fully the contribution of different agri-food systems and to build public policies’ proposals which are able to encourage a transition towards more sustainable systems.

During the DAP’s launching event, the participants had also the opportunity to visit the Mas Numerique SupAgro, which works as a “pilot farm” to test technologies applied to vineyards.

More than 15 companies and organisations attended the meeting, representing most of the agri-food sectors and key actors of the on-going process of digitisation of the sector.

You want to know more about the Digital Agriculture Platform? info@farm-europe.eu 

Today is held at the Hungarian Academy of Agriculture in Budapest, a conference organized by Farm Europe entitled CAP and future of EU agricultures: which way forward, how to address truly the challenges?

Farm Europe is pleased to invite you to a breakfast event “Securing EU farmers in an open world: the next step to improve risk and crisis management tools” which will be held on Thursday 29 November 2018 from 8h00 to 9h30 at the European Parliament in Brussels, room JAN6Q1, under the patronage of MEP Peter Jahr.

The discussion will be opened by MEP Peter Jahr.

João Pacheco will present Farm Europe’s study on how to better structure the EU crisis reserve and improve risk management tools, while Professor Jean Cordier (AgroCampus) will provide a short overview of the capacity of these tools to improve the resilience of EU farms (based on the “Study on risk management in EU agriculture“, financed by the European Commission and carried out by Ecorys, Stichting Wageningen Research and different experts).

It will be then followed by a discussion with EU economic and political leaders.

Thank you to confirm your presence by registering at info@farm-europe.eu and If you are not accredited to the European Parliament, we kindly ask you to provide us with your contact details:

– First and last name

– Date of birth and nationality

– ID number/passport

With kind regards,

Farm Europe’s Team

————————

We are pleased to invite you to our breakfast-event at Farm Europe premises on: ” Which Brexit costs on the EU and CAP budgets – Which impacts on farm incomes?”, which will be chaired and opened by MEP Paolo De Castro. A panel discussion will follow with Ms Cristina Rueda-Catry, member of  Commissioner Hogan’s Cabinet, Mr João Pacheco, Senior fellow at Farm Europe and former DDG in DG AGRI and Mr Paolo De Castro, MEP.

WHEN: Wednesday 25 April from 8.30am to 10.00am

WHERE: Rond-Point Schuman 9, 1040 Brussels – 3rd floor

In the context of the current negotiations on the departure of the British, we will present the analysed consequences of Brexit on the budgets of the EU and the CAP in particular, as well as on agricultural incomes in each of the 27 MS, according to various scenarios analysed.

On this occasion, Farm Europe’s note “Financial impact of Brexit on the CAP budget of the EU Member States” will be distributed.

We kindly ask you to confirm your presence by sending an email to: info@farm-europe.eu

Finally, we are at your disposal for any additional information you may need.

Kind regards,

Farm Europe’s team