Conference "The CAP towards 2020 – taking stock with civil society" (Brussels, 13/07/2012)

The conference provided a forum for civil society to debate and discuss the CAP reform proposals for post-2013 which were adopted by the Commission on 12 October 2011, and the degree to which the proposals contribute to meeting the challenges identified during the public debate launched in 2010.

 

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>> Read the summary [79 KB]

 

 Proceedings

Opening 

• "Taking stock with civil society on the future of the CAP" - Opening speech by Dacian Cioloş, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development

 

 Plenary 

• "The October 2011 CAP Reform legislative proposals: A global assessment with emphasis on food security and competiveness" [999 KB] by Hervé Guyomard, Director, Institut National Recherche Agricole (INRA), France

• Presentation [409 KB] by David Baldock, Director, Institute for European Environmental Policy

 

 Workshop 1: CAP and food security 

• "Food security and the CAP" [697 KB] by Tassos Haniotis, Director for Economic Analysis, Perspectives and Evaluation, European Commission, Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development

• "The EU and the long-term challenge of feeding a world of 9 billion people" [316 KB] by Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Senior Economist/Team Leader, Global Perspective Studies Team, FAO

• "CAP and food security: international implications" [500 KB] by Luca Salvatici, Professor, University of Rome III, Italy

• Presentation [291 KB] by Eric Driver,CEJA, EU young farmers

• Presentation [232 KB] by Susanne Langguth, Chair of the agricultural policy group of the EU food industry organisation, FoodDrinkEurope

• "Ensuring sustainable food security in a resource-constrained world" [257 KB] by Sébastien Treyer, Director of programmes, IDDRI - Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, France

• Summary of workshop 1 [391 KB] by Alessandro Sorrentino, Professor, University of Tuscia, Italy

Workshop 2: CAP and natural resources  

• "Integrating Environmental Requirements into the Common Agricultural Policy" [346 KB] by Martin Scheele, Head of Unit 'Environment, genetic resources and European Innovation Partnership', DG Agriculture and Rural Development

• "Are we raising the bar? Or Just green-washing the same old policy?" [491 KB] by Ariel Brunner, Head Of EU Policy, BirdLife Europe

• "CAP and natural resources" [231 KB] by Eugénia Pommaret, Environmental Director FNSEA - French Farmers Union

• Presentation [590 KB] by Rainer Oppermann Institute for Agroecology and Biodiversity (IFAB), Germany

• Presentation [296 KB] by Thomas Bertilsson, Copa-Cogeca

• "A paradigm change towards sustainable food and farming systems" [7 MB] by Jan Plagge, IFOAM EU Group, Chairman of Farmers Sector Group

• Summary of workshop 2 [344 KB] by Peter Nowicki, Senior Researcher, LEI-WUR (Agricultural Economics Research Institute), The Hague, Netherlands 

Workshop 3: CAP and balanced territorial development 

• "The CAP and balanced territorial development" [278 KB] by Josefine Loriz-Hoffmann, Head of Unit 'Consistency of rural development policy', DG Agriculture and Rural Development

• "Impact of the pillar I and II on rural areas" [236 KB] by Eduardo Moyano-Estrada, Director of the Institute of Advanced Social Studies (IESA), Spain 

• "CAP Empowering Local Communities and Promoting Rural-Urban Links?" [633 KB] by Petri Rinne, President ELARD, European LEADER Association for Rural Development 

• "Rural Development – Prepared for Future?" [243 KB] by Otmar Seibert, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany 

• "CAP toward 2020 – KO or OK for the Shift of Rural Paradigm?" [240 KB] by Goran Šoster, Coordinator of the PREPARE Network

• "Smart, sustainable and inclusive rural development in post-growth times" [535 KB] by Robert Lukesch, Agriculture and Rural Convention Core Group member, ÖAR Regional Consulting, Austria

• Summary of workshop 3 [233 KB] by Adrian Neal, Team Leader, Contact Point of the European Network for Rural Development

 

Summary document of the Workshops drawn up by the rapporteurs [50 KB]   (This text represents solely the views of its authors and cannot in any circumstances be regarded as the official position of the Commission)

  

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• Opening session - Plenary session - Workshop 1 - Closing session

• Workshop 2

• Workshop 3