[OpenSpending] CAP funds

Fri Apr 11 19:27:27 UTC 2014

Hi Stefan,

Many thanks for the info. I will have a look right now.

Cheers,
D

2014-04-11 9:45 GMT-04:30 Stefan Wehrmeyer <stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org>:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> thanks for your inquiry. We are currently in the process of gathering data
> from the EU member states to be used in the upcoming relaunch of
> FarmSubsidy.
>
> The data collection of Spain is coordinated here:
> https://github.com/openspending/farmsubsidy-scrapers/issues/26
>
> All Spanish data we currently have can be found here:
> http://data.farmsubsidy.org/ES.tar.bz2
>
> We are still looking for funding for this project to make farm subsidies
> more accessible to journalists.
> If you are interested in this topic, you might also be interested in this
> conference in May: http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> On 11.04.2014, at 15:06 , Daniel J. F. <daniel.jarreta.f at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm Daniel, a Spanish freelance journalist, and I'm interested in public
> spending accountability within the EU. I was surfing on the Internet trying
> to get info about beneficiaries of Euro grants and subsidies when I found
> farmsubsidies.org. There is an absolute lack of transparency in this
> issue -in my country, at least. So your great website gave me the idea of
> launching a small data project about mapping the agricultural aid in Spain.
> >
> > Several months before that, I already got from a colleague a list of
> 2011 Spanish beneficiares of CAP payments. Then I saw your Google
> Spreadsheet, 'Farm subsidy payments of EURO 1 million and more, 2011'. Both
> files have very likely the same origin.
> >
> > I was wondering if OpenSpending has ever tried to gather and merge more
> than 3 following financial years of beneficiaries of CAP payments. Spanish
> Ministry of Agriculture has a 2010, 2011 and 2012 database which can be
> consulted by anybody. But... What about previous years? What if I want to
> compile every cent received by top100 companies since 2002 for instance?
> That would be really helpful.
>
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > D
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