Comme à son lancement en 2011, l’objectif central de cette initiative demeure le renforcement du partenariat entre l’Union Européenne et les voisins du Sud et de l’Est de la Méditerranée qui le souhaitent en matière de politiques agricoles et rurales. Plus spécifiquement, l’initiative ENPARD vise à accompagner la formulation et...

Natural resources are scarce and their preservation is a prerequisite for ensuring prosperity in the long-term. This basic fact applies even to land – it is a finite resource that cannot be imported or reproduced. The state of land in Europe is mixed. Semi-natural vegetation and wetlands, as well as...

This publication presents the short term outlook for the arable crops, meat and dairy markets in the EU for 2014-2016. The report is based on analysis of market experts within the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission. Information and data available until 15 September 2015 have...

Food security has become one of the international development agenda’s top priorities, enjoying a particular boost after the 1996 World Food Summit, the setting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, and even more so after the 2007-2008 world food-price crisis, signalling the need for a stronger food security...

With the new international target of 2030 for eliminating human hunger on Earth, three organizations in Hungary have come together to promote effective solutions to malnutrition and food insecurity. Once again this year, the Hungarian Foodbank Associationhas partnered with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to produce today’s food truck...

The paper analyses the development of organic agriculture in the NorthEast Development Region of Romania, particularly during the current economic crisis. The organic agriculture sector represents a relatively new area of interest for farmers in Romania, as the first signs of organisation and utilisation of land and livestock according to...

At this conference, the preliminary results of the Pilot Project "Exchange programme for young farmers", proposed by the European Parliament and supported by the European Commission, were presented. For this study, some 2,205 young farmers (max 40 years old) had been interviewed.

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development presented its latest projections for crop, milk and meat markets in the EU for the next ten years. Leading experts from international organisations also presented their views. The conference concluded with a panel discussion involving representatives from OECD, FAO, USDA and the European...

"Enjoy, it's from Europe": the new promotion policy adopted  by the European Commission will help the sector's professionals break into or consolidate international markets and make European consumers more aware of the efforts made by European farmers. To achieve this goal, the Commission will make more resources available, will increase...

Europe's diverse mix of cultures, traditions and climate has given rise to a unique range of produce which span across all food groups. From meat to fruit and herbs to wine, there are thousands of products we are proud to call our own. Techniques can often be traced back over...

The EU Forest Strategy is based on the principle of subsidiarity. It aims at establishing a framework for forest-related actions in support of sustainable forest management, based on the coordination of the forest policies and initiatives relevant to forests and to the forest-based sector.

The seminar "Structural realities in EU agriculture: Does farm size matter?" focuses on the recent structural developments in the EU agricultural sector and its implications for the competitiveness and sustainability of the EU agri-food sector and its rural areas. The workshop will provide information and allow sharing experiences that could be...

The European Union has agreed that by 2015 where possible and by 2020 at the latest all fish stocks should be exploited at a level that will let them produce the maximum sustainable yield for the long term (MSY). This means taking the highest catches possible without affecting future productivity...

The Rural Development Programme (RDP) for Hungary was formally adopted by the European Commission on 10 August 2015, outlining Hungary's priorities for using the € 4.2 billion of public money that is available for the 7-year period 2014-2020 (€ 3.4 billion from the EU budget and € 740 million of...

The aim of the conference is to present the needs of young farmers, provide an overview of existing exchange schemes for young farmers throughout EU 28, and also outside Europe, and launch the guide for successful exchange schemes, which has been produced as part of the study. The conference is aimed...

Discarding was considered by the European Commission a serious problem in European fisheries and one which must be addressed as a high priority. The aim of the present study is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the discard problem on small-scale fisheries in Europe in order to put forward recommendations...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

In Romania, the transition to a market economy meant a change in the relationship between the users of land resources (who became land owners) and the resource (the agricultural land, the operation of which was divided among the new owners). In the last quarter of a century, the rural areas...

More than 90 per cent of Italian farms have a usable agricultural area of less than 9 ha, even if over time there has been a growth of the average agricultural area per farm as a consequence of rural out-migration. This paper compares, using a nonparametric model, the technical efficiency...

Under the scope of the a4a Initiative, the JRC is promoting cooperative activities between fisheries scientists with the aim to test, disseminate and promote a4a methods. These Small Research Projects (SRP) focus on comparing the results of assessments from other models to assessments obtained from the a4a statistical catch-at-age model,...