What is the CAP the EU is proposing? | Brief with Dr Guy Pe'er
Scientist Dr Guy Pe'er, who focuses on biodiversity, agriculture and the CAP gives a brief to some of the activists in the #WithdrawTheCAP campaign. The campaign is asking the EU Commission to listen to the science! Timestamps below!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro: What we already know
03:59 Farm sizes & Farmland ecosystems and biodiversity in decline
04.43 Farmland ecosystems and biodiversity in decline
05:45 What is the CAP? Pillar 1: Direct Payments
08:49 Abandonment and Biodiversity
10:35 What is the CAP? Pillar 2
11:28 What is the CAP? Coupled payments
12:08 History of CAP, Direct Payments - Question
14:30 What is the CAP? Pillar 2
19:10 Cross Compliance
20:50 The objectives of the CAP
23:02 Weaknesses of the CAP
23:57 CAP and SDGs
24:53 Weaknesses of the CAP
27:16 What is new in the CAP reform?
33:17 Timeline: reform-process
39:15 scientific summary
40:23 Why is this CAP worse?
46:46 conclusion of the presentation
48:23 Q&A
48:34 What is the next step in our campaign?
50:45 Food Security in the EU
54:19 Misrepresentation of farmers
56:59 Eco-schemes question
57:59 why the Commission won’t withdraw the CAP
59:57 Where to put pressure
1:03:33 What to demand from our ministries
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