Variables to adjust. for differences in climate are also included in the model, and differences in efficiency are captured by intercept dummies. Brooks concludes that for the northern regions of her sample private agriculture is 17-103 per cent more efficient than socialized agriculture, depending on whether Finland is included or excluded …

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and workers are no exception. Through the European Green Deal and the social pillar, the has set clear commitments and ambitions. It has an opportunity to sow the seeds through a reformed CAP. We must not waste this opportunity to cultivate a socially fair and more sustainable future for all citizens.

In 1930 around 20,000 “kulaks” were killed by the Soviet government. Widespread famine ensued from collectivization affected Ukraine, southern Russia, other parts of the USSR, with the death toll estimated at between 5 10 million. The Holodomor, considered a genocide by many historians, was a man-made famine in Ukraine in 1932 …

Brussels has scrapped a recommended target for cutting agricultural greenhouse gas emissions as governments seek to quell protests from against the bloc’s ambitious green agenda. A …

The emergence, transformation and sustainability of ’ cooperatives in post‐ societies of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) require complex and diverse processes of institu…

The 2024 ‘ are a series of by that have been occurring since December 2023. The have protested against low food prices, proposed environmental regulations (such as a carbon tax, pesticide bans, nitrogen emissions curbs and restrictions on water and land usage), and trade in agricultural products …

Global agricultural unrest has led to spanning and Australia, challenging green policies that threaten to impact livelihoods. The post stage major …

Long-term budget for 2021-2027. Image: European Commission (2023). While it is true that the agricultural sector plays a strategic role in the food security of the entire continent, its environmental impact cannot be understated. Agriculture is the fourth-largest in terms of greenhouse gas emissions in the , and it is among the sectors that have seen the least pr

‘ protests across sparked a surge in popularity of right-wing populist parties and have made agricultural policy one of the main topics of the upcoming European election campaign.

Today’s exceptional proposal follows the €500 million support package for adopted on 23 March in the framework of the Communication on “safeguarding food security and reinforcing the resilience of food systems” . In these two measures, the Commission encourages Member States to support engaged in sustainable practices.

a deal. Parliament’s and Council’s negotiators reached an informal political agreement on three laws that will govern the 2023-2027 policy, on Friday. Negotiators endorsed a policy shift that should tailor the ’s policy better to the needs of individual member states …

Environmental policy is another source of conflict. In Asturias, many complain about the growing populations of wolves and bears, which has been promoted by official green policy, but …

’ protests have subsided somewhat in France, following government concessions, but continue in many countries across . They were sparked by new rules which require a certain proportion of fallow land, crop rotations, and reduced fertiliser use. The is now stepping back. German object to the phasing out of tax breaks on agricultural diesel; Netherlands …

In the 1950s and 1960s, eastern was falling behind mainly due to relatively low levels of investment and weak reconstruction dynamics. Both are explained, in part, by the lack of labour-supply flexibility that, in turn, resulted from the comparatively much larger negative impact of the war on population growth in eastern .

Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner took to the stage on Monday in front of thousands of jeering protesting against tax rises and told them there was no money for further subsidies.

BRUSSELS (AP) — A major Union plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc and fight climate change was indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how ’ …

Long history of ‘ . may be taking to the streets more than they were 10 years ago, but the agricultural sector has a long history of , as van der Ploeg, the …

Mr. Sanders identifies as a democratic , but when asked on Tuesday how he defined that, he described something closer to social democracy. “What democratic essentially means …

Thousands of tractors are blocking the streets in capital cities across as protest against policies on climate change and the influx of cheaper food imports from Ukraine. Right-wing politicians are voicing solidarity with the , raising the threat of a euroskeptic, anti-climate group gaining large increases in the European parliamentary elections in June.

How to save ’s . By Gunnar Rundgren, originally published by Garden Earth. February 26, 2024. Most have probably noticed that there have been massive protests by European the last month. It started in Germany, linked to the budget crisis there, and later included from France, Belgium, Portugal, Poland and several …

. Leading Fabian figures visited Georgia as part of a European delegation in 1920, just a few months before the Red Army put an end to this experiment in democratic – Eric Lee. By. Date 20 February 2018. Topics.

George Orwell (1903–50) was attracted to as a tool to end poverty, but became frustrated by its lack of acceptance in the United Kingdom and western . Orwell identified ideological confusion as a key problem in The Road to Wigan Pier, published in 1937. Orwell was approached by his publisher, the social reformer Victor …

The deal ends a near three-year struggle over the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, which will suck up around a third of the ‘s 2021-2027 budget, spending 387 billion euros on …

in Western have fought with growing fervour in recent years against environmental rules that they claim are prohibitively expensive. They have taken to the streets in a wave of protests, blaming policies for their plight. in the Netherlands, Germany, and France have organised protests against new agricultural policy.

The agricultural lobby is very powerful in , and especially when you’ve got thousands of and hundreds of tractors blocking everything. Here’s Belgian Deputy Prime Minister David …

The travelled across to make their presence known in Brussels, but they needn’t have bothered. The is already painfully aware of the populist rebellion bubbling up against its net zero plans after a string of dramatic tractor protests that threaten to mushroom into a continent-wide movement as June’s European elections approach.

’ have been sweeping for months – in countries such as Greece, Germany, Portugal, Poland and France, where the government was taken by surprise this week by a motorway …

Ella Joyner in Brussels. 01/11/2024. The German ‘ that caused nationwide disruptions is the latest in a slew of demonstrations . Many say their backs are against …

Conceptions of a cooperative economy” 2 John E. Roemer*. 3 Yale University 4 John.roemer@yale.edu 5 6 Abstract. is back on the political agenda in the United States. Politicians and some 7 economists who identify as socialists, however, do not discuss property relations, a topic that 8 was central in the intellectual history of …

German kicked off a week of nationwide protests against subsidy cuts on Monday, blocking roads with tractors and piling misery on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition as it struggles to fix …

Scientists are adamant: To fulfill the bloc’s goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 and to reverse biodiversity losses, has to transform the way it produces its food. Ms. Breunissen …

The National Union (NFU) – an industry body, not a trade union – says it needs 10,000 to 20,000 migrant workers in order to get crops in this year. The situation is critical, it told environment secretary Michael Gove this week, because the number of migrant workers has fallen.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The ’s executive arm shelved an anti-pesticide proposal Tuesday in yet another concession to after weeks of protests that blocked many capitals and …

The should change conditions imposed on to benefit from Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) funding, European Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said in an interview with French …

African must keep a closer eye on European policymakers.”. In particular, African need to watch the evolution of the ’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that was conceived in …

b These sites experienced a system, which str ongly influenced the development of agriculture through planned economy, ideolo- gies and the collapse of in the late …

Germany. In Germany, have been up in arms since early January over a government plan to roll back tax breaks on fuel for agricultural machinery and other subsidies. Tractors are lined up …

Thousands of across have ramped up against EU measures and rising prices, with roads blocked in Poland, Hungary, Spain, and Belgium. …

The — which have been happening in France for two weeks — aim to put pressure on the Union (EU). Now say they are planning to go to Brussels, where EU leaders will be …