Silva Rodríguez lecture: "Financial Prospects of the Reform of Common Agricultural Policy"

Submitted by laborate on Thu, 13/10/2011 - 12:18 GMT.

Next October 14, Jose Manuel Silva Rodriguez will deliver the lecture "Financial Prospects of the Reform of Common Agricultural Policy", which is part of the Master in Sustainable Land Planning.

José Manuel Silva Rodriguez is Director of Agriculture of the European Union. In an interview granted few weeks ago, about the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) he said: "There will be substantial changes, which do not just mean the end of milk quotas, the issue that likely raises most of the interest in Galicia. [...] The fundamental shift or change, no doubt, will be placing sustainability, with all that that entails, at the heart of CAP. And that implies that there will be to tackle issues in a practical way that in Galicia, and also other regions, have been put aside in too many occasions, such as land use, that is, favoring the most rational and cost-effective natural resources usage."

On the other hand, some agents do dislike this reform of the CAP. For example, Rosa Aguilar, Minister of Environment of the Government of Spain, qualified it as "manifiesto disaster".

The event will take place at 17h in the assembly hall of the Higher Polytechnic School (Lugo campus). Admission is free.

related links:

  • comunidado de prensa: The European Commission proposes a new partnership between Europe and its farmers
  • 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
  • Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
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