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The Future of Food and Gerald Miles
All around the world there are millions of farmers who continue to farm and refuse to turn their land and resources into just another money making industry. They continue to fight for their autonomy and their fundamental right to grow clean and nutritious food for their local communities. Gerald Miles is...
European Union
2016
Blog article
New fish hatchery and aqua-feed unit inaugurated in Kyrgyzstan
A new fish hatchery and aqua feed production unit were inaugurated last week in the Issyk-Kul province of Kyrgyzstan – the first instance of support for aquaculture infrastructure since dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Financed by the Government of Finland, the facilities were built under an FAO project entitled, “Towards Sustainable...
Finland - Kyrgyzstan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
Red Gold – from EU and FAO – yields fruit in Serbia this season
The four-member family Petrovic from Prnjavor near the town of Sabac, has been growing raspberies for years, agriculture being the only source of income for the family. Jovan, his wife Gordana and two sons Milan and Ivan, college students, cultivate maize, soybean, wheat and clover on 3,3 hectares of their...
Serbia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Video
The Land for our food
The Land for our Food is a documentary movie produced by the Access to Land network and directed by Julio Molina. The video takes us on the journey of Gavin Bridger, a grower from the Community Supported Agriculture project of Farnham Local Food in England, through various European countries in his...
European Union
2016 - Access to Land
Event
The “Reading Mountains” festival
Based on the success of the 1st edition, the Alpine Convention is organizing the Reading Mountains festival
The “Reading Mountains” festival is an opportunity to celebrate the cultural diversity of the Alps – its many languages, different, yet similar cultural heritage and its arts in all shapes and forms. For this...
Angola
2016 - EUROMONTANA
Video
Back to the land
From London to sheep farming on Eigg
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016
Blog article
Industrial agriculture threatens to drive German smallholders into ruin
The existence of many farms in Germany is dependent on the level of economic pressure and competition brought by larger scale holdings. More and more small farmers are being driven into ruin and the environment is paying a hefty price
Germany
2016 - EurActiv
Report
Pig report 2016
The report show that strengths and chances derive from modern meat processing and marketing, high performance infrastructure and logistics. On agricultural level the strong and dense organizational structure is highly influential. The good capacity-building system provides high productivity. Also increasing number of fattening units thus, increasing pork production.
European Union
2016 - agri benchmark
Video
Inspirational ideas: Online videos to bring consumers and farmers closer
The main objective is that the videos give consumers an insight into how the milk they drink is produced. It shows what life and work on farms in the region is really like, increasing the connection between producer and consumer. Christine Licher from the association speaking to The Local said...
Germany
2016 - EIP-AGRI Agriculture and Innovation
Blog article
Green milk – making dairy more environmentally friendly
Cow’s milk accounts for almost 3 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, but skimming the waste from dairy production in Europe could make the business much more sustainable.
Each year, around 140 million tonnes of raw milk is produced across Europe which requires an average energy input of 18 400 GWh....
European Union
2016 - HORIZON - The EU Research&Innovation Magazine
Event
1st Mediterranean forum: designing sustainable agricultural and production systems under global changes in the Mediterranean
The CIHEAM intends, by launching this Mediterranean initiative for PhD students and young researchers, to set the bases of a permanent forum for communication, dialogue and publication for different partners in the field of research and rural development in the Mediterranean countries.
2016 - International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Event
Regional Conference on “Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea”
The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), including its Mediterranean regional projects, are organizing in partnership with CIHEAM-Bari, MedPAN, WWFand in collaboration with the Government of Algeria a Regional Conference on “Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries...
2016 - General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Conference paper
Market tools in the sheep sector
A presentation regarding market tools in sheep sector, in European Union.
European Union
2016 - European Cpmmission
Conference/Meeting
Farm-Success project second transnational meeting,
The second transnational project meeting for the Farm-Success Project took place in Jaén, Spain on the 21-22nd April 2016. Representatives from each of the Project’s eight partners attended the transnational meeting; the second meeting of many transnational meetings held throughout the duration of the Project. This second meeting, provided a...
2016
Report
Facts and figures on organic agriculture in the European Union
This report has been prepared by DG Agriculture and Rural Development with the support of Eurostat, as well as FIBL Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft mbH for data on Germany and the Ministerium für ein Lebenswertes Österreich for data on Austria.
The organic sector in the EU has been...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Video
Converting to Organic Farming
This video is a documentary featuring a European farmer who converted his farming system from conventional farming to organic farming to show the pros and cons of the process from a personal perspective. The farmer describes the different stages which the older system underwent and mentions which channels of distribution...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Report
EU Dairy Farms Report
This annual report provides an overview of EU dairy farms based on the latest available data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) for 2013. It provides trends in milk margin per tonne and in income per work unit from 2004 to 2013, and estimates of gross milk margins for...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Blog article
Agricultural Markets Task Force
With greater market orientation of EU policies and increasing trade liberalisation in recent years, the EU agriculture sector is no longer shielded from global developments in the food supply chain. The participation of the European agri-food sector in global markets has created important trading opportunities, but also exposed it to greater market instability and increased price volatility.
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Newsletter article
News from the Deck - August and September
The monthly newsletter of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe
The newsletter of August and September 2016 includes:
LIFE presents its contribution to the “Extraordinary Plan for the Management of the Mediterranean Spanish coast” for 2017-2019 to the Spanish Ministry
The Low Impact Fishers of Baltic Countries present their Action Plan to the EU Commission
Other news from around the EU
News from our...
2016 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Blog article
New CAP struggling to improve farmers’ resilience
ince the launch of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2015, the EU’s farmers have suffered a string of crises. The CAP’s greening measures have helped farmers maintain their revenue, but the questions of job creation and access to land have proved harder to answer. EurActiv France reports.
Europe’s farmers...
European Union
2016 - EurActiv
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