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Bulletin d'information
Farm-Success project newsletter – 4th edition
Welcome to the final newsletter from the Farm-Success project!Since you last heard from us we have been carrying out the final adjustments, tests, and translations to our online training platform. We have also held several multiplier events across Europe in which young farmers and other stakeholders have discussed the importance of succession processes...
Belgium - Czechia - Italy - Slovenia - Spain
2018
Article de blog
Renewables and rural development should go hand-in-hand, say auditors
Current Europe-wide policies on renewable energy are not linked closely enough to rural development, according to a report by the European Court of Auditors, which took the Commission and member states to task for failing to take local needs into account.
The report by the Court of Auditors has warned that...
European Union
2018 - EurActiv
Divers
Regional Initiatives for Europe and Central Asia
FAO ’s three Regional Initiatives for Europe and Central Asia address interlinked issues to ensure the contribution of agriculture to achieve the universality of the Sustainable Development Goals. For this reason, technical teams in the region and at FAO headquarters work in close collaboration to support countries in achieving their...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Calm before the storm
Hearing in the European parliament on the state of play of the landing obligation before its full implementation in January 2019 proves lack lustre.
European Union
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Bulletin d'information
News from the Deck - September 2018
The monthy newsletter of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe
European Union
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Directives
Resource efficient rural economies
This edition of the EAFRD Projects Brochure looks at how resource efficiency is being supported in rural Europe. Resource efficiency means using natural resources in a sustainable way. It also means minimising the impact of human activities on the environment. The concept of resource efficiency is encapsulated in the idea...
European Union
2018 - European Network for Rural Development
Article de revue spécialisée
Diversité des contributions des systèmes dʼélevage de races locales. Les points de vue des éleveurs de trois races ovines méditerranéennes
La diversité des contributions fournies par les systèmes d’élevage s’appuyant sur des races locales, au côté de la production de biens alimentaires et non alimentaires, est rarement abordée de front, bien qu’elle soit essentielle pour comprendre les modalités de gestion de ces races. Ce travail de recherche fait le point...
2018
Article de blog
Online discussion: Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas – obstacles and opportunities in the Mediterranean region
As part of the publication “Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas: obstacles and opportunities” (September 2018) and the conference “Women4Mediterranean Conference 2018 – Women build inclusive societies” (Lisbon, Portugal, 10- 11 October 2018), during which the “Empowering Women in Rural and Agriculture Areas” (UM-CIHEAM) workshop will...
2018 - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Étude de cas
Agroecological symbiosis
Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...
Finland
2018 - University of Helsinki
Article de blog
FAO supports the reduction of food loss and waste in southeastern Europe
In Europe and Central Asia, and particularly in countries not part of the European Union, food loss and waste have major implications on food nutrition and security through inefficiencies in the food value chains. FAO is now working with four southeastern European countries to develop strategies for food loss and...
Armenia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
Towards stronger EU-Africa cooperation
With a population expected to double by 2050 from 1.2 billion to around 2.5 billion predominantly young people, the African continent will need to foster job creation and economic growth through sustainable development.
The agricultural sector can play a key role in this, having the capacity to provide jobs and growth...
2018 - European Commission
Article de revue spécialisée
Cultivating vision and networks to untap rural women’s and girls’ potential in the Mediterranean
Last March in New York the sixty-second Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) took place with a priority focus on ‘Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls’. The Commission recognized in its conclusions «the crucial contributions of rural women to local and...
2018
Allocution
Pulse fishing: a European scandal
LIFE members & Management team up with a number of organizations across Europe to stop the attempt to pave the way to a legal and widespread use of this harmful gear.
European Union
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Article du bulletin d’information
Polish fishers lead the way on ghost nets
147 tons of marine litter fished from the Baltic: Polish small-scale fishers show leadership in dealing with ghost nets
Poland
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Article du bulletin d’information
Portuguese farmers provide answers to climate challenges
For five years, 1000 Portuguese farmers sowed biodiverse seed mixtures, rich in legumes, across 50 000 hectares. This was part of the Terraprima project which tackled multiple challenges including climate change, biodiversity and soil degradation. This nature-based technique offers a potential sustainable intensification solution, simultaneously increasing production and environmental services....
Portugal
2018 - Eip Agri
Article
Parasites of Myocastor coypus
a Comparison in Farm Animals and Their Feral Counterparts
The parasitic status in the coypus (nutrias) Myocastor coypus , both farm-bred or free-living on river banks, was determined. The evaluation of faeces from farm-bred coypus indicated infection with the following parasites: Trichuris sp., Strongyloides sp., Trichostrongylus sp., Eimeria seidelli , Eimeria nutriae, Eimeria coypi , and Eimeria myopotami . Free-living...
Czechia
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Divers
Organic is operational
Inspiring innovation for EU agriculture
European agriculture faces increasing restrictions on the use of external production inputs, such as artificial fertilisers, pesticides and antibiotics. Organic farmers have experience in dealing with these issues, which is why organic farming may open new avenues for soil management strategies, weed and pest control, and livestock health and wellbeing,...
European Union
2018 - Eip AGRI Agriculture&Innovation
Vidéos
Food is Life...Life is people. The #FutureofCAP and the #EUbudget
Italian MEP Paolo De Castro and Copa-Cogeca Secretary General Pekka Pesonen sit down for an important exchange of views on the future of the Common Agriculture Policy and the EU budget.
Belgium
2018 - COPA COGECA
Document de travail
DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain
Farmers, processors, traders, wholesalers, retailers and consumers are all actors in the food supply chain. Smaller operators in the food supply chain are more prone to face unfair trading practices (UTPs) due to their, in general, weak bargaining power in comparison to the large operators in the chain. Agricultural producers...
European Union
2018 - European Council
Article de blog
Organic and “conventional” farmers joining forces for innovation
There are a number of innovative projects looking into techniques which can improve production whilst reducing inputs and impact on the environment. These are techniques which can be useful in both organic and ‘conventional’ agriculture. The Operational Group (OG) ‘Special area Altes Land’ in Germany is working on plant protection...
European Union
2018 - Eip AGRI Agriculture&Innovation
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