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| 28th November 2012 | European Council - Draft Conclusions on BudgetThis document provides figures for changes in European spending. | |
| 15th August 2012 | IISD Report on Foreign Investment in Agriculture in MERCOSUR Member CountriesThis report finds that foreign investments are increasingly significant in the agriculture sectors of the member states of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). Foreign investors have taken a keen interest in the agriculture sector in recent years, partly due to sharp spikes in agricultural commodity prices since 2007. The report concludes with a number of… | |
| 14th August 2012 | Changing Perspectives: Small-scale farmers, markets and globalisationBy Sophia Murphy for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Hivos Foundation (June 2012). This paper maps and summarises the debate on small-scale farmers and their relationships to globalised and globalising markets. It documents changing views of small-scale farming as the process of globalisation evolves and looks at how small-scale farmers… | |
| 14th August 2012 | Biofuel do Brasil? Impact of Multinational Biofuel Mandates on Agri-Food TradeBy Martin Banse, Franziska Junker, Anne Gerdien Prins, Elke Stehfest, Andrzej Tabeau, Geert Woltjer, and Hans van Meijl for the International Association of Agricultural Economists 2012 Conference (2012). This paper analyses the consequences of enhanced biofuel production in regions and countries of the world that have announced plans to implement or expand on biofuel policies.… | |
| 14th August 2012 | Agriculture and Climate Change: Post Durban Issues for NegotiatorsBy Deborah Murphy and Jessica Boyle for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (May 2012). The paper examines the implications of the inclusion of text on agriculture in the outcome of the Work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) at last year’s UNFCCC Conference of the Parties… | |
| 16th May 2012 | European Commission concept note on the proposal for ‘greening’ direct payments to farmersConcept note from the European Commission dated 11 May 2012, on ‘greening’ measures under the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy’. | |
| 16th May 2012 | Working document on CAP reform from Luxembourg, 27 April 2012A working document from Luxembourg on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, dated 27 April 2012. | |
| 10th May 2012 | Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small Family FarmsThis document was prepared by international organisations ahead of the G20 Agriculture Vice-Ministers’ meeting in mid-May. | |