05/03/2013
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Towards smart and sustainable water use in agriculture
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04/03/2013
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Staffan Nilsson
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One in six people on our planet face a daily struggle to find enough food to live. Food insecurity is thought to affect, in one way or another, more than one third of the population of the ACP countries, mainly in rural areas. This is the reality we need to tackle. And since I am myself a farmer and engaged in farmers' organisations, agricultural resilience is an issue that lies particularly close to my heart.
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02/10/2012
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Staffan Nilsson
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EESCThe EESC has renewed its call to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission for a robust CAP budget to be maintained at least at the same level as in the current period.
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Staffan Nilsson`s speech at the Congress of European Farmers 2012
01/10/2012
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23/05/2012
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Staffan Nilsson
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EESCSoil is crucial to our livelihoods, as it supplies us with food, fibre, fuel and raw materials. We certainly consider it to be an issue of strategic importance, and not only as an environmental issue but also as a key element of sustainable economic growth in Europe.
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Staffan Nilsson keynote speech on soil & water at the Green Week 2012
02/05/2012
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"Cross-border Latvian/Lithuanian Conference: Implications of CAP inequality - consequences and opportunities"
25/04/2012
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"The role of women as drivers of a development and innovation model in agriculture and rural areas"
12/10/2011
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Staffan Nilsson
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EESCFor a multifunctional agriculture geared towards sustainability objectives
"I welcome most of the European Commission's proposals launched which, to some extent, incorporated the civil society's input on the reforms needed in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We welcome the enhanced focus on the environment. We at the EESC believe that CAP funds should in future be used to maintain and develop everywhere multifunctional agriculture geared towards sustainability objectives. ..."
22/01/2010
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March 2022
Newsletter
In this issue:
- Members' proposals and demands for the future of food
- Guest articles by Monique Goyens, Director General of BEUC, and Marta Massa, Director of the European Office, Slow Food Europe
- Members' comments on current affairs #StandWithUkraine #EUtaxonomy #CoFoE
- Report on our recent conference on 'Climate Change and Energy Transition'
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