50 years of the European Agricultural Policy: Time for change say civil society groups

Data: 23/01/2012
The European Commission launches its 50th anniversary of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) campaign[i] today. However with farmers and biodiversity disappearing, hunger and social inequalities increasing and food safety compromised, civil society groups are calling on the European Institutions to use the ongoing CAP reform to undertake a radical overhaul to make it “fit for the next 50”. More...

Romania intends to more actively promote its farm products

Data: 23/01/2012
Romania intends to more actively promote its farm products at the International Food Exhibition held in Berlin under the name ‘Green Week’. The event, in which Romania participates as a partner, is the most important international fair for the food, agriculture and horticultural industry. More...

6,000 Year Old Peruvian Popcorn Reminds Us How New GMO Corn Really Is

Data: 21/01/2012
Corn has been a point of controversy for the past few years as a result of an onslaught of genetic modification that has made finding none-manipulated varieties nearly impossible. But even though today nearly 9 out of 10 corn crops are genetically modified and often monoculture crops, it hasn’t always been this way. More...

Valeriu Tabara: We will request EU that Romania should not be forced to sell farming land to non-residents until 2020

Data: 20/01/2012
Romania will request EU that she should not be compelled to sell farming land to non residents, said Valeriu Tabara, the minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Romania is not ready now to open the land fund and we will take steps to allow the extension of the land after 2016 so that the country should not be allowed to sell land to non residents. We should see the EU stand and our new capacity. More...

Romanian farmers could receive the refunds for EU farming aid faster after the government has announced

Data: 16/01/2012
Romanian farmers could receive the refunds for EU farming aid faster after the government has announced that reimbursement requests will have to be processed within 45 days by fund management authorities before they are sent to the European Commission. This is the same deadline as in the case of structural and cohesion funds. More...

France upholds ban on Monsanto GM maize

Data: 13/01/2012
The French government said on Friday it would uphold its ban on a strain of genetically modified maize developed by U.S. biotech firm Monsanto in 2012, even though France's highest court overturned the moratorium last year. More...