How green is the new CAP?

<p>Despite the early green ambitions, the new Common Agricultural Policy may end up looking rather like business as usual. &nbsp;But, following policy delays, the CAP will now be delivered under the EU presidency of Ursula von der Leyen. &nbsp;The new Commission has prioritised environmental action, and the Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the European Green Deal.</p> <p>In this programme I'm crossing the English Channel to find out what's happening with agricultural policy in mainland Europe?</p> <p><a href="https://www.farmwel.org.uk/">ffinlo Costain</a> speaks to <a href="http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/CommonFoodPolicy">Nick Jacobs</a>, the Director of <a href="https://twitter.com/IPESfood">IPES Food</a>, and to <a href="https://www.iddri.org/en/about-iddri/team/pierre-marie-aubert">Pierre-Marie Aubert</a>, the Coordinator of the European Agriculture Initiative for <a href="https://twitter.com/IDDRI_ThinkTank">IDDRI</a>.</p> <p>IPES Food's influential 2019 report, Towards a Common Food Policy for the EU, can be found <a href=" http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/CommonFoodPolicy">here</a>.</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/farmgate/message