Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous external inputs of chemicals, machinery, advice, subsidies and knowledge. The issue of sustainability has brought complexity and uncertainty to this mainly linear...

With consumers and in value chains, small-scale fisheries are struggling to get the recognition they deserve. LabMAF has detailed the factors contributing to the weak position of small-scale fishers in the markets and identified innovations that respond to existing challenges. By connecting existing various market initiatives and encouraging new ones...

Eip Agri  Newsletter on Agriculture & Innovation

Multi-actor projects are projects in which end users and multipliers of research results such as farmers and farmers’ groups, advisers, enterprises and others, are closely cooperating throughout the whole research project period.  The EU has allocated around one billion euros to fund around 180 multi-actor projects of interest to agriculture, forestry and rural development...

Breve documental grabado en la Fiesta de la Trashumancia 2019, Madrid. Un proyecto de: Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza Proyecto Dehesa y Montado en la Península Ibérica WWF España, WWF Portugal

Regulations to curb the indiscriminate and dangerous use of pesticides on seed and in fields must go hand in hand with other measures, such as promoting hedgerows that fulfil important ecological functions for birds and pollinators. Also, environmentally-friendly alternatives could be further investigated and promoted. Green, innovative technologies, such as...

The food supply has been disrupted by COVID-19. Shopping in supermarkets and grocery stores in the pandemic may not be a pleasant experience, as it can often lead to disappointment and anxiety since a lot of food items are not available or out of stock. The pandemic’s impact on the...

From the topics: AgriFish Council of 27 January 2020, Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, News from the Ministry of Agriculture of Romania and many more.

SALSA - Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security, is an EU-funded research project of the Horizon2020 program which run from April 2016 to March 2020 with the aim to provide a better understanding of the role of small farms and small food businesses in meeting the sustainable food and nutrition...

This report sets out the BOND Project’s activities and findings in two Central European countries – Poland and Czech Republic – focusing on small scale organic farming. Both countries share a common history as part of the Eastern bloc after WWII and then post-soviet reality from the end of the twentieth...

Healthy animals are the basis of successful, profitable, and sustainable livestock production. Especially in the case of poultry, the help of veterinary laboratories is essential to protect the health of flocks. Still, several laboratories in Europe and Central Asia are using outdated and unreliable technologies, as modern and preferred diagnostic methods...

The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal. It addresses comprehensively the challenges of sustainable food systems and recognises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet. The strategy is also central to the Commission’s agenda to achieve the United Nations’...

The farm side of agroecology is only half the picture. Food sovereignty is of vital importance; it's the right for every single person on this Earth to have access to nutritious food and the knowledge of how to prepare it.” George, an agroecological farmer from the UK, for #IGrowYourFood

This year tested humankind on how we score in resilience. This is also at the heart of FAO, aiding the Organization, along with two additional fundamental principles, sustainability and innovation, during an eventful 75 years of existence. The World Food Day Talks event provided an opportunity for inspiration on how...

Many of the pathways have strong interconnections and it is exactly here that co-creation across the different parts of the food system can lead to the expected co-benefits, and a greater farm-to-fork coherence working under a food system R&I policy framework. In addition, the Pathways will deliver on issues linked...

The latest draft of the Farm to Fork strategy (F2F), obtained by EURACTIV, features a few notable changes from the previous version, including an emphasis on the possible role of animal farming on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and on options for animal welfare labelling.

La situación provocada por la pandemia del coronavirus ha reforzado la necesidad de crear un Banco de Alimentos alternativo, impulsado desde la agroecología y la economía social y solidaria. AlterBanc es una propuesta de cooperación entre dos colectivos precarizados por el sistema capitalista, las personas que sufren pobreza alimentaria y...

The ENRD newsletter provides all the latest rural development news from Europe straight to your inbox once a month. From policy updates to ENRD meetings and from project outcomes to online videos, this new and updated tool aims to provide something for everybody interested in rural development policy in Europe....

The latest draft of the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy (F2F), obtained by EURACTIV, specifies that mandatory targets for the reduction of use and risk of synthetic chemical pesticides will be established using the existing Harmonised Risk Indicator 1 (HRI1), whose suitability was contested in the past. 

The latest draft of the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy (F2F), obtained by EURACTIV, specifies that mandatory targets for the reduction of use and risk of synthetic chemical pesticides will be established using the existing Harmonised Risk Indicator 1 (HRI1), whose suitability was contested in the past.