European agriculture: unprecedented crisis call for unprecedented EU reaction.
For almost three years now (since the beginning of the Covid crisis), European agriculture has been dealing with one challenge...
Ukraine: assessment of the UN Black Sea Grain Initiative & EU Solidarity Lanes
The disruption of exports, specially of grain, as a consequence of the outbreak of the Ukrainian war in February 2022...
Vote on deforestation of the ENVI Committee : a positive step forward that can be further improved
Today, the Environment Committee of the European Parliament adopted the report of Mr Hansen on imported deforestation. Farm Europe welcomes...
Event summary – Carbon & Agriculture: certifying sequestration and GHG reduction
Farm Europe & Pluri-Agri have organized an online event on “Carbon & Agriculture: certifying sequestration and GHG reduction” on the...
Free Trade Agreement with New Zealand – Where is the gain for the EU?
The European Commission has recently announced a renewed push to conclude the negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with...
Future of Europe : a forward looking vision from EU Citizens for sustainable food systems.
After one year of activities, the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) reached its conclusions on the recommendations on...
Nutrient profiles: EFSA cautiously avoids to give an opinion on the Nutriscore
The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) released its scientific opinion on the guidelines for nutrient profiling, i.e., “the classification of food based...
Biofuels: going beyond preconceived and false ideas
Joe Biden just decided a few days ago to increase the blending of biofuels in the United States to step...
IPCC: Managing agricultural trade-offs – key to successful climate transition.
At a time when the European Union’s new food strategy – the Farm to Fork Strategy – is divisive, the...
The Farm to fork: in need of a new political consensus
Despite the Covid crises, the war developing in Ukraine and the fears of food shortages in Europe and neighbours’ countries,...
European Nutrition: which tools for the right policy?
The purpose of this study is to open the debate on the European state of art on the nutritional and...
Food Security: Back at the top of the European political agenda
Like peace, food security has long been taken for granted in Europe. The violence of the war on the borders...
Spain: CAP Strategic Plan 2023-27
Strategic priorities Spain proposes a CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 that “aims at the sustainable development of agriculture, food and rural...
The Commission should revise its Farm to Fork & Biodiversity Strategies
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought war back to European soil, and its dramatic consequences are unfolding under our...
Summary description of a H2020 field-scale experiment
Farm Europe is involved in a Horizon 2020 research program, called ‘Plastic in Agricultural Production: Impacts, Life-cycle and LONg-term Sustainability’...
EFSA’s scientific opinion on sugar: more work needed to provide a direction to health authorities
Yesterday, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), published its scientific opinion on Tolerable Upper Intake Level of dietary sugars, i.e....
Poland – CAP National Strategic Plan
Strategic priorities In Poland, rural and agricultural areas occupy 85% and 52% of the country, respectively. Rural areas are inhabited...
Livestock in the EU – periodic news
The proper treatment of farm animals is increasingly important to consumers, which is reflected in the desire to ban long...
ITALY: CAP Strategic Plan 2023-27
Strategic priorities: organic farming and livestock The Plan recognizes the importance of organic farming to contribute to the achievement of...
COP26 & Agriculture
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has finished on the 12th of November. During the ongoing negotiations, the...
Agri Promotion 2022
As an early Christmas present, the Commission has announced its support of a total of €185.9 million for the promotion...
The new German government coalition’s agricultural plans
Germany sets course for digital progress, animal welfare, organic farming and the post-2027 CAP
PRIMES: a new perspective on the contribution of biofuels to the Green Deal ambition.
The E3 modelling firm has updated the PRIMES model, regularly used by the European Commission for its impact assessments, taking...
EU Soil Strategy for 2030 – Reaping the benefits of healthy soils for people, food, nature & climate
On November 17, 2021, the European Commission published the EU Soil Strategy for 2030, a non-legislative document that addresses the...
Nutriscore: after Italy and Spain, France starts to doubt
What Europeans eat cannot be left to an opaque and misleading algorithm. During a question time at the French Senate,...
Transatlantic cooperation to face global agricultural challenges
During the morning of November 3rd, European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski and US Secretary for Agriculture Tom Vilsack
Farm to Fork: new studies unveil the economic effects of the strategy
A new study from the Kiel University, Germany, takes a clear cut conclusion on the effect of F2F on the...
New Genomic Techniques: Commission opens public consultation
In September the European Commission opened for public consultation asking for stakeholders their opinion on the legislative initiative to update...
UN Food Systems Summit
After 18 months of preparation, the much awaited UN Food Systems Summit took place this September 23rd and 24th, where...
State of the Union 2021
At the 10th anniversary of the event, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, has given today...
The impact of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategy – Lots of pain for little gain
The Commission has finally released a study on the impact of its F2F and Biodiversity Strategy proposals on the agriculture...
Green Energy Platform – “Fit for 55” : renewables from EU agriculture key to make EU’s ambition affordable, realistic and sustainable
The Green Energy Platform (GEP) welcomes the level of ambition and the fact that renewable energy from EU agriculture (i.e....
EU wine sector: need of a wake up call for Europe
During the last decades, the European wine sector has been able to keep up with the increasing competition both in...
CAP: The tools for dual performance are there, it’s up to the Member States to mobilize them!
Farm Europe welcomes the agreement on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy reached today. It preserves the common dimension...
Biofuels: A way for agriculture to contribute to the Green Deal goals
Agriculture can be an active part of the Green Deal and positively contribute to reach the ambitious goals that Europe...
CAP reform: Determination and pragmatism versus hubbub and posturing
Farm Europe did not wish to comment on the failure of the negotiations last week, and to add its own...
New Genomic Techniques: regulatory implications of the last Commission’s report
Farm Europe discussed, today, the regulatory implications of the last report (1) presented by the European Commission on the status...
The UK-Australia FTA will hurt the EU beef sector
News have circulated that the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is reaching the final legs of negotiation.
The taxonomy draft delegated act – one sentence must go
For those who are not familiar with the Taxonomy Regulation, it aims at “launching an ambitious and comprehensive strategy for...
EU Rural Incomes and Biofuels
March 2021 Abstract This paper aims to cast a light on the nexus between the profitability of rural livelihoods and...
