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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
German Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer has called for a drastic rise in European agricultural production to counter rising world food prices and shortages. The move would mark a significant change to current EU agriculture policy. Seehofer said the United Nations World Food Programme expected food demand to rise 60 per cent by 2030. Food riots have been reported in Haiti, Egypt...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Interesting possibility, in an article by Hugh Williamson in Financial Times: Germany believes China, India and the US should be forced to adopt higher environmental and health standards if they want to export food products to the European Union, says Horst Seehofer, Germany's farm minister. His comments echo calls by Paris for new EU barriers to free [...]
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An Inconvenient Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The global production of biofuels is not behind the recent rise in world food prices, two German ministers said on Tuesday. Germany should retain its target of reaching 20 percent renewable energy use by 2020 including 10 percent biofuels, Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer told a press conference. Rising food prices had largely been caused by the growing [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Berlin - Germany's government rejected Tuesday claims that fuel crops were causing the worldwide spike in food prices, but said it would ease farm health rules to encourage more meat production. Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer said after talks in...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
Berlin - German Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer has called for a drastic rise in European agricultural production, in a reverse of previous agricultural policy, to counter rising world food prices and shortages. We need a farming renaissance, an...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
German Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer has called for a drastic rise in European agricultural production, in a reverse of the bloc's previous agricultural policy, to counter rising world food prices and shortages.
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
German Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer has called for a drastic rise in European agricultural production to counter rising world food prices and shortages. The move would mark a significant change to current EU agriculture policy. Seehofer said the United Nations World Food Programme expected food demand to rise 60 per cent by 2030. Food riots have been reported in Haiti, Egypt...
