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The European Commission has adopted a proposal to reduce spending on support for farmers for the financial year 2018 in order to create a crisis reserve that can be used should the need arise. The proposal for 2018 aims to reduce CAP direct payments in excess of €2 000 by 1.388149%. Learn more.

Brazil needs independent controls over its meat industry, the EU’s Health Commissioner said yesterday (29 March), as he wrapped up a visit to the country rocked by an anti-corruption investigation focusing on bribery of its food-sanitation inspectors. Learn more.

n the six weeks since Commissioner Phil Hogan launched a wide-ranging consultation on modernising and simplifying the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) on 2 February, more than 25,000 respondents have already taken the time to have their say on the future of food and farming in Europe. The consultation is open for a further six weeks until 2 May.

On March 27th, 2017, the RISE Foundation published its report on 'CAP: thinking out of the box'. This report shows how the current CAP does not make best use of the considerable resources deployed to support land managers through the necessary transition and suggests some procedural changes to kick-start a more effective reform process which brings together more constructively the conflicting interests in agricultural policy. You may read the full report here.

The monthly value of EU agri-food exports in January 2017 reached a level of €10.3 billion, which is almost €1 billion higher than in January 2016, according to the latest agri-food trade report published today. The highest increases in monthly export values were achieved for wine (€+127 million), pork (€+112 million) and spirits and liqueurs (€+83 million). Read the full report .