The gap between farm and retail food prices is one bone of contention in recent farm protests. In this blog post, I examine what we learn about margins from new FAO data and how his might inform work of new Agri-food chain Observatory buff.ly/3RGQylS

Belgian Presidency conclusions on future of agriculture broadly supported by Ag ministers, consensus document needing careful parsing buff.ly/45XRYOZ, next step is Strategic Agenda to be adopted by European Council later this week, then Strategic Dialogue conclusions Sept

Eurostat Food Price Monitoring Tool can track changes in farm-retail price spreads but additional data are needed to say if changes justified or not. New Agri-food Chain Observatory should work closely with national competition authorities, my post buff.ly/3XN34Eo

DG AGRI summary of the changes made to the CAP Strategic Plans Regulation this year in a document presented to joint meeting of Environment and Climate and CAP Strategic Plans Civil Dialogue Groups, can be downloaded from this zip file buff.ly/3xvhm1H

Investigative report by journalists based on (limited) official data shows that the quantity and quality of Europe's groundwater aquifers is alarmingly poor, with likely adverse consequences for future crop production buff.ly/4cgH0pO

🇪🇺 Member States representatives and operators across the whole 🇪🇺 agri-food supply chain gathered today on the occasion of the first meeting of the Agri-Food Chain Observatory (AFCO) for more trust, transparency and fairness in the food chain! Read more: agriculture.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-agri-f…

I comment on the implications of the European Parliament election outcome and confirmation of von der Leyen as Commission President based on her Political Guidelines for future agri-food policy in my latest blog post buff.ly/4d7ySYR

Pleased to be part of the writing team along with Julio G. Fournier Gabela and others for this paper 'Carbon leakage in agriculture: when can a carbon border adjustment mechanism help?' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Current issue of the Italian Review of Agricultural Economics is devoted to territorial approaches to addressing food system challenges based on localised agri-food systems including case studies, open access buff.ly/3WUgYn4

Great summary of the Ukrainian agricultural sector and challenges in light of possible EU enlargement in this @iddri_english brief by Elsa Régnier and Aurélie Catallo, highly recommended buff.ly/3AjCrxb

For those wanting to keep up with changes in agricultural policy in England following Brexit, @Wyngrant post provides an update with a link to recent UK National Audit Office report on the Farming and Countryside Programme that replaces direct payments buff.ly/3YHOjTQ

I have translated full text in English of China Ministry of Commerce notice to start anti-subsidy investigation of EU dairy product exports to China. List of 20 subsidies includes all EU CAP payments to farmers as well as some member state subsidies buff.ly/3yWrCk0

Very interesting commentary on the pros and cons for China in opening the dairy anti-subsidy investigation from john clarke

Irish products among cheap EU dairy forcing some West African farmers out of business (via TheJournal.ie). Well researched article, would be good to include the consumer perspective as well as government policies buff.ly/4d2pVQl

I guess everyone has found the link to the report of the Strategic Dialogue on Agriculture published today, but in case not here it is buff.ly/3ZuufVp

Alexandre Gohin and I have a paper exploring farm income effects of raising producer prices either through trade policy or through Egalim approach modelled as price discrimination by processors authors.elsevier.com/c/1jkH~7VwmAV6…

I gave a presentation on future CAP at a conference organised by the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture in Estonia last week, presentation slides can be downloaded here (though always difficult to interpret without the commentary) buff.ly/3XfpwE9

Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council released the Agriculture and Land Use chapter of its 2024 Annual Review intended to hold government to account, recommended measures seem hardly sufficient in relation to scale of targets buff.ly/3XDycpp