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Agrifood Special CAPitals: Generational renewal – Euractiv

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Welcome to Euractiv’s Special CAPitals edition of the Agrifood Brief. 

In 2020, almost one in three farm managers across the EU was 65 years or older. Generational renewal is among the main challenges of European agriculture, and supporting young farmers is one of the most important objectives of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). Against this background, in their National Strategic Plans (NSPs), member states committed to aiding about 368,000 young farmers in establishing agricultural production over 2023-2027. 

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Agrifood Special CAPitals: Climate adaptation – Euractiv

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Welcome to Euractiv’s Special CAPitals edition of the Agrifood Brief. Let’s dive straight into a tour of the EU, to find out how the CAP and national policies support farmers coping with the damages caused by extreme weather events. 

 

POLAND

Farmers raise criticism of the system for weather-related loss estimation. Due to the country’s geographical and climate specifics, Polish farmers have to cope with different types of extreme weather events, which seriously threaten crops and can significantly reduce annual yields.

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Agrifood Special CAPitals: Advisory Services – EURACTIV.com

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Welcome to Euractiv’s Special CAPitals edition of the Agrifood Brief. Let’s dive straight into a tour of the EU, dedicated to education and training available to farmers across Europe:

GERMANY

In the German education system, aspiring farmers can either learn their trade through vocational training – there are 14 different agriculture-related courses – or a university degree.

But while there is thus plenty of choice when it comes to first training for the job, keeping up to date with new

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Agrifood Brief: Comi-what-ogy? – EURACTIV.com

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Jeden Monat verschwinden Hunderte technischer Prozesse stillschweigend unter dem Radar und werden hinter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit in Ausschusssitzungen in einem geheimnisumwitterten Prozess entschieden, der als Komitologie bekannt ist.

Die meisten Beratungen und Entscheidungen verlaufen ohne ein Flüstern. Wenn ich die Worte sagte Mefentrifluconazol, Prochlorazoder Metribuzin Für Sie – übrigens alles Pestizide, die von der EU-Lebensmittelbehörde (EFSA) untersucht wurden oder werden Ich arbeite derzeit an diesem Jahr – ich bezweifle, dass es vielen Menschen viel bedeuten würde.

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Agrifood Brief: Fantasy CAP – EURACTIV.com

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With many of you back at work and holidays already feeling like a distant memory, the comeback from after summer always hits differently than the actual beginning of a new year.

Maybe it’s a throwback to school that we just can’t shake, but perhaps it’s also because there’s the sense of a new season starting – weather-wise (certainly in Belgium), for the EU bubble, and for football.

We think it’s fair to say that our Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is

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Agrifood Brief: Co-existential crisis – EURACTIV.com

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If you find yourself faced with a neighbour or colleague you cannot quite get along with, you might settle for peaceful coexistence, but for organic farmers and (future) gene-edited crop growers, it is unclear whether this is even possible.

When the European Commission presented its proposal to deregulate certain new genomic techniques (NGTs) last week, there was certainly not a shortage of contention and pushback.

But among the most fervent critics are representatives of the organic sector, where many fear

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Agrifood Brief: Swede’s dreams – EURACTIV.com

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Swede’s dreams are made of … what? Well, not agriculture, if the past couple of months is anything to go by.

Because, despite promises in their priorities that food production and food security issues will remain at the ‘top of the agenda’ – as mentioned in their priorities –  the Swedish EU presidency started in January has failed to impress so far on the agriculture front.

The first signals that something was amiss came after the first meeting of EU

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Agrifood Brief: Met-solomon’s dilemma – EURACTIV.com

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Solomon’s dilemma is a phrase used to describe a seemingly impossible decision that must be made between competing alternatives, like choosing between your favourite children – or, say, your favourite European Parliament committee.

The phrase comes from the biblical figure of King Solomon, who, when faced with two women both claiming to be the mother of a baby, proposed cutting the child in half. 

Horrified, the real mother immediately withdrew her claim and begged for the child not to be

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