City University Food Thinkers
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Transparency and the food system
Food Thinkers series at City University29 October 2008
Jack Thurston Co-founder, farmsubsidy.org
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If Europeans knew how the EU spends €55 billion a year
on farm subsidies...
Would they approve?
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Our method
Freedom of information
+Investigative
reporting
Vigorous debate
+Better policy
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Recipient name Location Amount €
Spó dzielcza Agrofirma Witkowoł Witkowo Pierwsze 4 255 935
Top Farms G ubczyce Spó ka Z.O.Oł ł G ubczyceł 4 064 372
Top Farms Wielkopolska Sp. Z O. O. Piotrowo Pierwsze 3 991 238
Kombinat Rolny Kietrz Sp.Zo.O. Kietrz 3 814 261
Poldanor S.A. Przechlewo 3 798 350
Kom-Rol Kobylniki Spó ka Z O.O.ł Kobylniki 2 221 563
Agro - Skandawa Spó ka Z Ograniczon ł ąOdpowiedzialno ci Agro - Skandawa Sp. Z ś ąO.O.
Aptynty 2 084 845
Rolnyvik Sp. Z O.O. Barciany 1 922 988
Polska Hodowla I Obrót Zwierz tami Sp. Z ęO.O. Szymankowo
Szymankowo 1 808 175
Agri Plus Spó ka Akcyjnał Konarzewo 1 558 059
Poland: Top 10 recipients, 2006 & 2007
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Percentage of all direct payments (2006)
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Why?
“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath
not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.”
Matthew 13:12
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Direct payments, € per hectare, 2013
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Direct payments, € per hectare, 2013
A flat payment at
at €229 per hectare
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Behind the headlines
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May 06May 06 May 07May 07 August 08August 08
Value of Value of paymentspayments €33 billion €55 billion €66 billion
Number of Number of paymentspayments
n/a 8.2 million 12.1 million
Number of Number of recipientsrecipients
0.9 million 2.6 million 6.5 million
CountriesCountries 8 18 21
Data obtained - timeline
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3.2 million searches since 1 Dec 2005
300 visits per day (up to 1,000)
9 pages per visit
7 minutes per visit
66 per cent new visits
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European Transparency Initiative
30 Sept 2008: Rural development aid
30 April 2009: Direct payments
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✔ Name
✔Municipality
✔ Amount
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✘ Business ID
✘ Geodata
✘ Schemes
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That’s 27 websites!(even though the Commission
possesses all the data itself)
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“Observes that the Commission's website currently includes links to the databases of the
14 Member States providing information on beneficiaries of common agricultural policy
payments under shared management; regrets however that the information is so diverse and
scattered and of such varying quality that information can hardly be found; calls on the Commission to learn from the very accessible
website www.farmsubsidy.org which works very well and is set up without public funding.”
European Parliament, 19 February 2008
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But has it made a difference?
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Payment limits
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Entitlement approachv.
Programming approach
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Predictions?Direct payments (€36+ bn)
will become politically unsustainable
Why?- biggest get most
- historic basis of payment- massive variations in rates
- cross compliance is an illusion- high prices & profits (cereals)
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Transparency in the food chain?
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‘Supermarket Pastoral’
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“a visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts
involved in the production of contemporary products”
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Transparency
TechnologyMedia
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