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A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and ...
July is shaping up to be a blockbuster month for the EU agrifood sector. In a double-whammy move, the European Commission is ...
Rural voices still seem to go unheard in EU policymaking. The Rural Pact Coordination Group proposes a new tool for rural ...
If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must earn a ...
Crop diversification to improve the soil microbiome is key to the approach of the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) movement. After soil to bread in Portugal, the Seeds4All ...
With a degree in political science and international cooperation, Adèle Pautrat has developed an expertise on agro-ecological transition and agrobiodiversity issues, while working as a coordinator for ...
Feeding the chickens After a long break, we are happy to be back with Brîndușa Bîrhala on her homestead in the west of Romania, where she has been busy growing and nurturing farm and family. Yet she ...
On Cloughjordan Community Farm it takes a village to grow 50 sorts of vegetables. The member-owned farm produces high quality, nutritionally dense veggies using agroecological methods. Community is ...
The Commission has published "A Vision for Agriculture and Food", where it scales back the green ambitions of the Farm-to-Fork strategy, passing the buck to Member States to implement sufficient ...
Competitiveness is the key word of this new Von der Leyen Commission 2.0 – and the EU’s new ‘Competitive Compass’ is supposed to steer it onto a path towards security and economic prosperity. But far ...
The field of plant biotechnology is undergoing a profound transformation. The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is fundamentally reshaping the way genetic engineering is conducted.
The European Commission has been quietly weighing up options to radically overhaul its budget. This could see all of its 500+ biggest money pots merged into one mega money pot, divided out based on ...