 Ariel Brunner
The proposal seeks to open a constructive debate on the objectives and means of the future CAP.
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Time for a new Common Agricultural Policy
10-12-2009
Agriculture lies at the heart of the key challenges of our time from climate change and biodiversity crisis to food security. The EU needs robust policies to address these challenges but the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is out of tune with the times and still massively wasteful.
A group of leading environmental and sustainable farming NGOs has elaborated a detailed proposal for a future CAP that would be efficient, fair and effective.
The proposal from BirdLife International, EEB, the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements and WWF, seeks to open a constructive debate on the objectives and means of the future CAP.
To this end, a wide public consultation exercise is being carried out with all potential stakeholders invited to comment and potentially endorse the proposals.
"The new CAP must reward farmers for the delivery of public goods" —Ariel Brunner, Senior EU Agriculture Policy Officer at the BirdLife International European Division
The consultation is hosted by the Institute of European Environmental Policy here
All comments will be published, helping to move forward the much needed debate on the future of the CAP, which is all too often dominated just by budgetary concerns.
“We believe the EU needs a strong common policy on agriculture and land management but this must be based on a new contract between farmers and society” commented Ariel Brunner, Senior EU Agriculture Policy Officer at the BirdLife International European Division. “The new CAP must reward farmers for the delivery of public goods such as wildlife habitat, watershed management and climate mitigation. It must also help speeding up the transition towards truly sustainable farming practices that use natural resources efficiently”.
Download the proposal here
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Credits: BirdLife European Division