European Agriculture and Rural Development Directorate-General

The Commission adopts food aid plan for the neediest people for 2010

European Union Brussels, 20 November 2009 The Commission adopts food aid plan for the neediest people for 2010 The Commission today published its food aid plan for the neediest people for 2010. This year, 19 Member States have...

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CAP simplification: Commission to take on further simplification pro..

Vrijdag 20 november 2009 | European Union ] Today, the European Commission's Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development issued a report with the reactions to the 39 simplification suggestions which Member States...

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World leaders demand increase in food production

Ensuring global food security will require more investment in agricultural infrastructure, full use of advanced technologies and more open trade in food between countries. Addressing a major world summit on food security in...

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World Summit on Food Security Highlights for Tuesday, 17 November 2009 - Rome - Italy

The third World Summit on Food Security continued on 17 November 2009 at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy. CÔTE D’IVOIRE called on FAO to give special support to scientific research for...

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MEPs back big budget for EU farm policy

The first exchange of views on the post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) last week showed that the European Parliament may well use its new powers to block any significant budget cuts for the policy.

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Barroso urges governments to appoint more women to top EU posts

Brussels - National governments should appoint more women to the bloc's executive arm in Brussels, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday. About a third of the 27 commissioners in the outgoing executive...

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Farm debate sees budget reform plan 'thrown in the bin'

ANDREW WILLIS Today @ 09:49 CET EUOBERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU's top agricultural chief, Mariann Fischer Boel, has distanced herself from controversial plans to overhaul the bloc's budget. The commissioner was speaking at a...

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Fischer Boel says days of market management are over

Winning public support for the Common Agricultural Policy is crucial if sufficient funding is to be channelled into farming and the rural economy post-2013. Addressing a European parliament workshop on the future of the CAP,...

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Nigeria: Ohakim - The Nation is Africa's Future

Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim paid a courtesy visit on the corporate headquaters of THISDAY in Apapa, Lagos yesterday. He was engaged by the Board of Editors of the Newspaper, during which he spoke on the activities of his...

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