POLITICAL NOTE A sugar beet sector ready to meet its challenges
Summary The European Union produces around 50% of the beet sugar consumed worldwide, making it the world’s largest producer of beet sugar. However, beet sugar accounts for only 20% of world sugar production; the rest is produced from sugar cane. The EU is the third largest sugar producer in the world. Sugar beets are grown […]
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CAP: THE TOOLS FOR DUAL PERFORMANCE ARE THERE, IT’S UP TO THE MEMBER STATES TO MOBILIZE THEM!
Farm Europe welcomes the agreement on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy reached today. It preserves the common dimension of this policy and it provides the means to give impetus to a real economic and environmental ambition, clearly improving the European Commission’s initial proposal. The tireless work of the Portuguese Presidency, of long-established MEPs […]
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Shaping EU agriculture, rural areas and wealth for the next decades
Common Agricultural Policy Shaping EU agriculture, rural areas and wealth for the next decades Main outcomes of the 2019 Global Food Forum The Common Agricultural Policy was founded to respond to the challenge of food sovereignty in Europe, on the basis of the fact that a pooling of financial means and the definition of […]
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