Copa-Cogeca - Copa-Cogeca regretted the lack of an agreement at the EU Summit on the future EU budget 2014-2020, warning "a speedy and positive decision is vital so that a final decision can be made on the future CAP in time for implementation in 2014".
Agriculture / Agricultural news
La Unió de Llauradors - La Unió de Llauradors i Ramaders notes that a Valencian winegrowers receives 60% less for its wine than a Riojan or a Castilian-Leonese. This agricultural organization claims change the wine market of Valencian Community that, laments, is based in low cost.and bulk
Boletín Agrario - The Andalusian Workers Union organized a "march of women for dignity", which starts on Tuesday November 27 from the Seville town of El Coronil and ending in the Andalusian capital on Thursday 29th. Among the demands that women of SAT require is the elimination of the minimum requirement of the 35 days worked necessary to collect farm subsidy
Agriculture / News on Livestock
Unió de Pagesos - Unió de Pagesos celebrated that yesterday, November 22, the Public Health Agency of Catalonia made ""public its report "What do we mean when we talk about lactose intolerance?" in which, according to the Catalan agricultural union "are belied certain falsehoods contrary to dairy consumption that have spread in recent years despite having no scientific basis"
COAG - The farmer Aragonese Toño Romé has been elected State Coordinator of the Young Farmers of COAG, during the General Assembly of this area of the agricultural organization held yesterday Thursday, November 22, in Madrid. Romé, 28 years old, dedicates to the production of cereals and fodder in Zuera (Zaragoza) since five years ago. He takes over from young cattleman Salvador Roncero, from Zamora.
UPA - Thousands of farmers and stockbreeders convened by agrarian organization UPA moved this Thursday, November 22, in Spain to demand "a European Union budget fair, adequate to the importance of our work." From the organization regret that the reform of the CAP is "totally alien" to the interests of Spain, denouncing the "brutal" budget cuts
Boletin Agrario - After the different meetings held during the first day of the Extraordinary Council of Heads of State of the European Union which takes place in Brussels, Commission President Herman Van Rompuy has unveiled a new budget plan that increases agricultural aid by 7,700 million euros and territorial cohesion funds at 11,000 million euros.
Opinions / Artículos de opinión
Alonso Aguilar - Vicent Boix, a researcher specializing in trade and food sovereignty, has just published his second book, now available in bookstores under the suggestive name of "Pirates and pateras. Land grabbing in Africa.". As its subtitle indicates, the book focuses on the so-called "responsible agricultural investment" in Africa, or how markets are seeking safe securities in by others lands
Unió de Pagesos - The farmers union Catalan sees "clearly unfair" cuts in European agricultural funds proposed by Herman Van Rompuy that they value, "would be added to those already mentioned by the European Commission's proposal for CAP reform." UdP regrets that the proposal of the President of the European Council "means a reduction to 2011 level prices for European funds in direct payments and CMO"
FITAG - Over statements in Jaén last Tuesday November 20 by the Minister for Employment "no farmworker will stop receiving their agricultural income by temporary circumstances of drought," FITAG-UGT welcomes this commitment of Fatima Banez to exonerate days for access to the subsidy and agricultural income, but insists on the need to hold a meeting
COAG - According to data analyzed by the technical services of COAG on the basis of the official EU proposals for financial programming 2014-2020, Spain could lose 16% of the agricultural according the Van Rompuy's proposal, while with European Commission proposal the cut would be 11%. Under the worst scenario trading Spain would receive 1.139 million less per year
Agribusiness / Promotion and Business
AGRAGEX - This week AGRAGEX, in collaboration with ICEX, organizes a new trade mission to Russia for intensify the promotion of Spanish industry and expand the presence of his companies in that country. In 2011, Spain exported agricultural machinery and components worth 33 million euros, a figure that AGRAGEX aims to increase "substantially over the coming years"
Agriculture / Agricultural news
COAG - COAG has sent a letter to the Spanish Agricultural Minister, Miguel Arias Canete, demanding to authorities from Spain and UE toughened monitoring in frontiers to guarantee that quantities and prices be conform to what they subscribed in the free trade agreement EU-Morocco. COAG claim that during this month of November, every day except one, the input value was below the 0.46 € /Kg established
Sustainable Development / environmental News
Banco Mundial - The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 ºC at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to a new scientific report released today that was commissioned by the World Bank
CCOO / UGT - FITAG UGT and FEAGRA-CCOO unions ask the Spanish Minister of Employment and Social Security, Fátima Báñez, an emergency meeting to address the serious problem of lost wages as a result of inclement weather. The severe drought and extremely serious wildfires, as well as episodes of torrential rain, frost and hail also caused heavy losses in agricultural employment.
ASAJA - ASAJA considers that Spain should reject clearly "the claims of the Cypriot presidency and Van Rompuy to laminate the European agricultural budget" in the next Summit of Heads of State from 22 and November 23. In that case Spain would line up with France, recalls ASAJA, which has already been shown frontally against the proposed tax cut of the community budget
FITAG / UGT - "The development of forest biomass sector would be an engine of employment and contribute to the cleaning of mountains and forests," said the Federation of Industry and Agricultural Workers of the spaniard UGT union . An activity that apart from his undoubted environmental value, could be a real catalyst for job creation in rural areas of Spain and other mediterranean countries.
UPA - Thousands of farmers will be mobilized on 22 November in Spain, convened by the agrarian organization UPA, to protest against what they see as "dismantling of the rural world as we know it." On 22 and 23 November are critical days for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, "which is more than 30% of total agricultural income in Spain," says UPA