Discover the set of rules established to manage European fisheries and how LIFE can make your voice heard!

The EU fruit and vegetable regime supports operational programmes implemented by recognised producer organisations (POs), by making a funding contribution to the programmes' operational funds.Recognition of interbranch organisations (IBOs) is favoured where they proof to be sufficiently representative of the various occupational categories of the fruit and vegetables sector and they carry out practical...

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Spots-vidéos reçus lors du concours national de vidéo "Cuisine et Interdépendance" organisé dans le cadre du projet EAThink, par le Réseau International Urgenci. Action réalisée avec le soutien de l'Union européenne, la Région Normandie, l'Académie de Caen et la Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer.

A short movie about angus organic farm - Full Story

With the looming context of the fourth Greek bailout, the European Rural Sustainability Gathering 2017 kicked off in in Karditsa, Greece. The event saw the social economy, cooperatives and grassroots initiatives take centre stage, as tools and approaches to address the crisis. The location displayed the best of progressive rural...

Funding opportunities, EMFF, CLLD: transform your ideas into projets, LIFE will support you throughout the whole process!

The sixteenth meeting of the Stakeholder Group for the cross-border region of “Drina-Sava” was organized on the 2nd March in the City Hall Nijemci in Nijemci, Croatia. 

As every year, the prospects for LIFE’s members, and the fate of the resources they depend on, hang on the discussions, negotiations, and decisions on setting catch levels and accompanying measures for Baltic fisheries in 2018. Our position, based on numerous discussions with our Members, is outlined below, a position...

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The various forms of exploitation of migrant wage-workers occurring predominantly in the agricultural sector in Europe can’t leave us indifferent. Nor can the repression and violence of States and European institutions in response to the massive migratory flows engendered by socioeconomic, climatic and political destabilization in many countries. In this...

Certain regulatory changes went in a different direction. The first of EU discard plans, applicable for the Baltic Sea and adopted in late 2014, temporarily decreased the minimum conservation reference size (MCRS) for cod from 38 to 35 cm until the end of 2017. One of the reasons cited by...

Acoustic protection for marine mammals: new warning device PAL

Organic farmer, author, and educator Jean-Martin Fortier hosts a workshop at ASU on profitable small-scale farming. This event was made possible by ASU's Food Systems Transformation Initiative in collaboration with University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Steadfast Farm and National Young Farmer's Coalition.

This Newsletter is a simple snapshot of our external activities. In addition, the LIFE staff in the UK, Brussels, Poland and Spain respond to a vast range of queries related to our sector and continuously develop and promulgate policies related to small scale, low impact fishing and fisheries.

Andy Cato is a farmer who combines modern animal traction, beef cattle and crops on his farm in the Southwest of France. He shared the story of his experiments to improve his soil and his farm’s productivity, finding ways to limit tillage in the context of organic agroforestry production with...

Climate and environmental action, developing the circular and bio- economy, creating high quality jobs in the agriculture sector, for all these issues, involvement of rural areas is crucial to deliver real results. However, speaking at the Agri Innovation Summit 2017 on 12 October, Commissioner Phil Hogan explained that "this potential...

Farms in Northern Ireland face a series of challenges due to the crisis in farm profitability which saw farm incomes drop by 16% in 2014/15 and a devastating 46% in 2015/16. Low prices threaten many farms since low profitability makes it less appealing for the next generation to take over. In...

The 2016 EIP-AGRI workshop in Krakow focused on building innovative food systems and supply chains which connect producers with consumers. The workshop covered both the perspective of the farmer and of the city, giving cities easy access to fresh, safe and healthy food, benefiting local producers and contributing to local...

Facilitating access to succession brokers for farming families in all EU Member States is necessary in order to broach the difficult conversation about the transfer of land between generations, CEJA also calls the EU to pay a particular attention to young people not coming from a farming background by implementing...