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Ahead of its official launch, introductory talks on the African Union-European Union agri-food platform will be held on 25 June 2020 during an online event organised by the European Commission, the African Union and European Business Ghana. The participants will set the scene, assess the platform’s aims and highlight the role of farmers and rural…

Dear Ambassador Acconcia, dear Director Edeme from the African Union Commission, dear Ghanaian and European colleagues and friends, allow me to congratulate you all for this initiative and allow me to share with you some observations on the continental dimension – and ambition – of this event. Africa and Europe are neighbours, friends and longstanding…

Today, the Council adopted a regulation which allows member states, as an exceptional measure, to pay up to EUR 7 000 to farmers and up to EUR […]

MEPs decided to set up an inquiry committee to look into alleged breaches in the application of EU animal welfare rules during transport within and […]

Most of the hazards related to welfare of pigs at slaughter are due to inadequate staff skills and poorly designed and constructed facilities. […]

Based on the feedback of 7,600 farmers and 2,200 agri-food companies across the EU, 24 country-specific fi-compass reports present the main challenges faced by these two groups when it comes to access to finance. The reports also estimate the financing gap for agriculture in the EU between €19.8 and €46.6 billion, while for the agri-food sector…

En Portugal, la industria de la alimentación animal es una de las industrias transformadoras más relevantes. Presenta una facturación de 1400 millones […]

February 2020 presented a number of challenges for agri-food trade, including the Covid-19 pandemic, US tariffs, and UK’s withdrawal from […]

Overall, imports of organic agri-food products remained stable between 2018 and 2019. In terms of products, imports of organic cereals […]

An international team of almost 50 experts identified 75 emerging innovations and 8 action points that can help speed up the transition to a […]

Nature has spent millions of years evolving answers to problems. It has come up with ingenious solutions to build strong structures, harvest energy and produce iridescent colours. Scientists are increasingly turning to the natural world for inspiration to create new, greener materials and technologies. In the lab of Dr Silvia Vignolini at the University of…

An estimated 12.7 million tonnes of cows’ milk were collected from EU farms in March 2020, which was +1.2% higher than in March 2019. […]

How do you feed a city? It is one of the great questions of our time. After all, for a species that ultimately depends on plants to feed […]

In December 2019, the European Parliament declared a climate and environmental emergency in Europe and across the globe – a recognition of […]

The bounty of food we can find on supermarket shelves across Europe is the result of knowledge accumulated over thousands of years by generations of farmers. But with the global human population likely to increase by 2.2 billion over the next 30 years to reach 9.8 billion, there will be a lot more mouths to…

As the world population grows, it will be a challenge to meet everyone’s nutritional needs with traditional sources of protein. The global population is expected to increase by 2 billion people in the next 30 years while meat production is likely to double in the same period to meet demand. This will have a significant…

Dr Luciano Zuccarello grew up in the shadow of Mount Etna, an active volcano on the Italian island of Sicily. Farms and orchards ring the lower slopes of the volcano, where the fertile soil is ideal for agriculture. But the volcano looms large in the life of locals because it is also one of the…

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Wild bees are major pollinators of crops in Europe such as peas, beans and oilseed rape. But as their numbers decline, there is a need to monitor and boost bee populations and understand the consequences of fewer bees. And pollinators are not just important for crops – but also wild plants. Falling bee numbers are…