ابحث في قاعدة البيانات
مؤتمر/اجتماع
Organic Opportunities for Sustainable Rural Development to 2020
Today, the crisis situation in the European dairy sector clearly highlights the failures of our current EU policies for supporting viable farm enterprises and balanced rural development. As a result the programme will include a panel discussion looking at whether EU agri-food policies are capable of supporting sustainable farming and...
Italy
2015
مقالة إخبارية
Agroecological family farmers can become “the backbone of food security in Europe”
In September 2015, family farmer Jyoti Fernandes spoke at a Policy Debate in the European Parliament. The video is embedded below and a full transcript of the talk is available here. Being part of the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and the European Coordination of La Vía Campesina (host of the debate),...
2015 - Agroecology Now
مؤتمر/اجتماع
Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy
Innovative Methods and Solutions for the Agriculture and Forest Sectors
Moving towards a bio economy is one of the key policy strategies of the EU. Its vision is of a knowledge-based Europe turning to green growth via innovation, which presents opportunities for the agricultural and forest-based sectors. Sustainable production of renewable resources will be needed, with the conversion of these...
Spain
2015
مشروع
Inspirational Idea: Smart logistics to connect farmers and consumers.
DistriKempen, a group of five farmers from the Kempen region (Belgium) were searching for ways to deal with the transport of their fresh products to customers in the region. In 2013 they found the perfect people: Dorien Goris, and her brother Geert. Dorien: “Assisted by the Flemish Innovation Support Centre...
Belgium
2015 - Agriculture&Innovation
موقع إنترنت
Inspirational ideas: A passion for permanent pasture
David Crespo, a farmer from Portugal, believes that permanent pasture is an “outstanding resource” which can significantly improve animal production. But the usual grasses grown require high nitrogen inputs and lack protein for the animals. He has developed a system of integrating legumes in the pasture which means he has...
Portugal
2015 - EIP-AGRI
دراسة حالة
Sustainable egg production
The laying hen sector has had to face many challenges in the past decade, including disease outbreaks and concerns over animal welfare. In cooperation with Wageningen University and other partners, Rondeel company (The Netherlands) thought up a new housing system for laying hens which would be able to provide solutions...
2015 - Agriculture&Innovation
متنوّعات
How short supply chains can help increase farmer incomes
Bringing farmers and consumers closer together, short supply chains can take many forms. All over Europe, the term covers a range of direct selling, from selling on the farm, at farmers’ markets, or via the internet. Often characterised by personal contact between the producer and the customer, they also offer...
2015 - Agriculture&Innovation
مقالة
Integration key for Scotland’s hills farms
More than 70 per cent of Scotland’s land area consists of hills and mountains or has vegetation with upland characteristics. Our mountains, moors, hills and heaths extend from near sea level in the north and west to the highest mountain tops across Scotland.
So don’t just imagine the jagged peaks of...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2015
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
What future for farming in Scotland's mountains?
More than 70 per cent of Scotland’s land area consists of hills and mountains or has vegetation with upland characteristics. Our mountains, moors, hills and heaths extend from near sea level in the north and west to the highest mountain tops across Scotland.
Farming in the uplands varies markedly from place...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2015
نشرة إخبارية
Thriving not just surviving, support for new entrants into farming
The recently launched EIP-AGRI Focus Group ‘New entrants into farming’ is looking into which patterns characterise new entrants in farming and what can be learnt from them to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture. Agnès Papone, one of the Focus Group experts and a recent convert to the farming profession,...
European Union
2015 - EIP-AGRI Agriculture and Innovation
بيان
Agricultural Outlook Conference - EU
Speaking in front of over 400 stakeholders from the agricultural sector, Commissioner Hogan today presented his vision for agriculture in the European Union and the future of the Common Agricultural Policy.
2015 - European Union
مؤتمر/اجتماع
EU leads efforts to tackle agricultural export competition at 10th WTO Ministerial Conference
Addressing agricultural export competition has been a longstanding demand from many countries, notably developing and least-developed countries. Advancing on this issue would make the multilateral trading system fairer, it would support farmers world-wide, and it would create a more level playing field for trade across the globe.
2015
نشرة إخبارية
Antitrust: new Commission Guidelines on joint selling of olive oil, beef and veal, and arable crops
The Guidelines aim to support European farmers by clarifying how they can, under certain conditions, cooperate to jointly sell olive oil, beef and veal, and arable crops without breaching EU competition rules. These markets are worth more than €80 billion annually.
The European Commission has adopted new Guidelines on how specific...
2015 - European Union
مقالة في مجلة
Transforming Food & Farming
The European organic movement stimulates and rewards the further development of organic systems, improving the resilience and environmental performance of organic production systems, while innovative tools for upholding the integrity of the supply chain promote trust. Policy makers and citizens widely recognize and value the contribution of organic farming to...
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
صحيفة وقائع
Factsheet on 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme for Cyprus
The Rural Development Programme (RDP) for Cyprus was formally adopted by the European Commission on 3 December 2015, outlining the priorities of the Republic of Cyprus for using the €243.3 million of public money that is available for the 7-year period 2014-2020 (€132.2 million from the EU budget and €...
Cyprus
2015 - European Commission
تقرير
The capability of extension and advisory services to bridge research and knowledge needs of farmers
This report presents the case of demonstration farms that operate within a cooperation network. The purpose of the study was to present the advisory opportunities in the process of linking education and the needs of farmers, with regard to innovative knowledge. In this process the advisory role was shown through...
Portugal
2015 - University of Agriculture in Krakow
صحيفة وقائع
Monitoring EU Agri-Food Trade: Development until September 2015
In September 2015, not only agri-food exports but also imports to the EU went up compared to the previous month (EUR +388 million; +4.5%). In particular, values of oilseeds other than soybeans, coffee and tea, and cocoa beans were at a higher level in September compared to August 2015. EU...
2015 - European Union
مجلة
Global food security: challenges and options
EU Agricultural Markets Briefs
The recent USDA ERS International Food Security Assessment (IFSA, 2015) reports sharp declines (roughly 40 %) in food-insecure people in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) during the last 20 years. Success was driven by rising per capita grain output in both regions and rapid import growth in...
2015 - European Union
مجلة
World agricultural production developments
Since the mid-2000s agricultural and food prices moved to a higher level and in parallel with prices of other commodities – and at times have also been very volatile. These events led to concerns which, in different ways, brought to the forefront a debate about food security. Both developed and...
2015 - European Union
صحيفة وقائع
Prospects for Farmers’ Support: Advisory Services in European AKIS
There is a wide consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is a key resource to support European agriculture in meeting new challenges such as e.g. international competition, food safety, health or environmental issues. Organisations delivering farm advice are targeted by different EU policies, such as the “Farm Advisory...
2015 - Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (AKIS)
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