🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Net balances may play a role in how Member States view an increase in the CAP budget in the coming MFF negotiations for the period 2028-2034. In this blog post, I examine which MSs are net contributors and which are net beneficiaries in 2023 buff.ly/4ere7rs

Joint Research Centre paper looks at pricing options for agricultural emissions. Because of high leakage from supply.side measures it favours consumption option by tweaking VAT but recognises this would have negative distributional effects buff.ly/4emeOSV

The acceleration of climate change impacts revealed in this collection of charts contained in the WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update prepared for COP29 buff.ly/4euENYn

Report for EP AGRI Committee examines the role of the big four global agricultural commodity traders in shaping agricultural markets and recommends additional anti-trust and market transparency measures buff.ly/3Ov8xKd

UK farmers plan a protest tomorrow against inheritance tax changes in recent UK budget. The budget also accelerated the phase-out of direct payments. In my blog post I examine the progress made in England in removing direct payments and compared to the EU buff.ly/3OeDeCZ

Denmark becomes first country in world to introduce climate tax on livestock emissions, with further agreement on N reduction and land use change, supported by broad majority in Parliament and main farmer organisation. Yes, criticisms but great achievement buff.ly/4hVDLr3

ARC2020 has informative post by Asger Mindegaard that describes the negotiation of the Danish political agreement on a livestock emissions carbon tax, reduction in N emissions and land use change as well as political reaction to it buff.ly/3V1jwhR

With discussions at EU level on setting a 2040 target for GHG emissions underway, it might be helpful to highlight my overview chapter 'Agricultural emissions: a case of limited potential or limited ambition', a little dated but still relevant, open access buff.ly/3UVXKMI

Those interested in the inheritance tax protests by UK farmers yesterday should first read the BBC Verify commentary on the number of farms likely to be affected buff.ly/40VbjzK , and then listen to this classic BBC interview with Jeremy Clarkson buff.ly/40VH5fJ

Commission publishes study estimating the emissions reductions and removals potentially resulting from measures in CAP Strategic Plans. Study comes up with a big number, 31 MtCO2e, but methodology potentially more interesting to examine buff.ly/3ZiSTYd

Very thorough and helpful analysis of the prospects for a UK-EU veterinary agreement and reducing barriers to trade in animal products from UK Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy buff.ly/3D4DiTA

Fascinating to listen to dialogue of the deaf in panel discussions on fair remuneration in food chain in #EUAgriFoodDays today - facts and evidence presented by academics and public authorities vs myths and beliefs of other participants. Transparency, yes, but do people listen?

When able to freely choose among a list of potential food concerns, UK consumers report food prices as their top concern, following by health and then sustainability concerns buff.ly/3Ddhd5k

DG AGRI publishes study examining evolution of agrifood trade under Canada and Japan free trade agreements. Finds FTA preferences led to increased trade with overall positive trend for EU net trade balance buff.ly/3ZxAvKo

The Expert Group on Carbon Removals is developing draft methodologies for certifying quality removals. The Oeko-Institut has dug into the carbon farming methodologies and finds them wanting in ensuring environmental integrity in several respects buff.ly/41H96rZ

Defra compares UK TFP growth in agriculture with some other European countries in this chart. Ireland's improved performance since 2011 coincides with relaxation and then removal of EU dairy quota buff.ly/4fx1g7w

Excellent article from Prof Alan Matthews explaining why the EU-Mercosur Agreement will have minimal impact on the beef sector. ‘Seek truth from facts’ as a statesman once said. A valuable corrective to the misinformation floating around linkedin.com/posts/matthews… Alan Matthews [email protected]

Y a continuación un resumen, también con mis palabras, pero más largo: En su artículo “Encajar la PAC en el nuevo MFP, presupuesto a largo plazo” Alan Mattews aborda el debate surgido en Bruselas acerca de la posibilidad de refundir en un solo plan nacional, todos los fondos

Thanks to Fernando Miranda you can now read an excellent summary of my post on proposed restructuring of the MFF into a single fund in Spanish.