The global population is projected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. To meet this growing demand, animal protein production must increase overall by an estimated 20% over the next two decades. Amid the complex landscape of geopolitical tensions and economic challenges the world is facing, securing food supply for the future will need to take a “One Health” approach; a concept that’s been recognized for over a century that animal, human, and environmental health are inextricably linked to safeguarding public health.
Biosolutions are nature's tools, offering a powerful pathway to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable and greener future, while potentially strengthening Europe’s resilience, supply chain sovereignty and competitiveness.
Experts identified extreme weather as a primary challenge to food supply in Europe in an assessment of EU food security released by the European Commission on 16 April.
EU leaders are expected to put food security at the heart of bloc’s agricultural policy for the next five years, according to a leaked draft of the outline of the EU’s Strategic Agenda obtained by Euractiv.
The EU remains heavily reliant on animal feed and fertilisers imports from outside the bloc, as highlighted in a recent study commissioned by the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee (AGRI).
Primary food processing industries contribute to the EU’s food security and sovereignty. Our sectors play an important role in Europe’s agri-food ecosystem and supply food products and ingredients consumed by millions of EU citizens every day. But we are also facing numerous challenges.
European Parliament's political groups envisage a more active role for the EU executive in favouring the uptake of low-risk alternatives to chemical pesticides, according to a preparatory document seen by Euractiv.
Evaluating the impact of Ukraine's accession on the EU's farming subsidies under the current criteria is not a relevant exercise as Kyiv's EU membership will likely lead to the end of the Common Agricultural Policy as we know it today, according to Ukraine's Deputy Economy Minister Taras Kachka.
This week in a special episode for EURACTIV’s Beyond the Byline podcast we explore the challenges and resilience of European farmers within the context of food chains and sustainable food production. We delve into the recent State of the Union address …
Sacrificing the EU’s agriculture productivity on the altar of its sustainable farming ambitions risks creating tensions on the global stage as the rest of the world cannot compensate for a reduction in the bloc’s output, according to a United Nations (UN) expert.
The European Commission's impact assessment and update on the EU's pesticide cuts plan sparked mixed reactions among stakeholders and lawmakers, sparking calls to stop stalling the reform and caveats about consequences for European agriculture.
Campaign groups have warned that the EU’s sustainable food law risks going off course as conversations turn to food security and the strengthening of the internal market - something the Commission has defended, insisting this is a key pillar of the law.
Six member states have pushed for further flexibility on environmental measures in the EU’s farming subsidy programme for 2024, despite no impact assessment on the previous exemptions having been made - a move lambasted by green groups.
kIt is a mistake to frame the green transition through the lens of right vs. left, according to Spain’s Agriculture Minister Luis Planas, who stressed the need to engage farmers in the process in an interview ahead of Spain’s turn at the helm of the rotating EU Council Presidency.
Farmers and green groups both turned out in force outside the European Parliament on Thursday (1 June) because of the EU’s proposed nature restoration law as tensions continued to mount over the future shape of the EU’s green ambitions.
Primary Food Processors are the energy-intensive part of the food supply chain. We need to decarbonise, and quickly. Energy efficiency, renewable energy and cutting upstream emissions all have a part to play. But we need the right policies to help get us there.
A group of MEPs advises the EU executive to proclaim 2024 as a European year of 'sustainable and resilient food systems' in a letter seen by EURACTIV.
Politicians and agrifood lobbyists are using skyrocketing wheat prices in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to justify a sustained attack on EU plans to reduce pesticide use, Olivier De Schutter and Jennifer Clapp argue.
Germany is already preparing to campaign on its vision for the future Common Agriculture Policy (CAP): moving away from area-based payments and towards remuneration for providing public goods.
In his famous experiment, Nobel Prize-winning Erwin Schrödinger theorised that if you placed a cat in an unobserved, closed box with something that has the potential to kill it, it can be considered simultaneously both dead and alive.
The disruption of grain deliveries from Ukraine can be a chance for African countries to step up food production at home, the African Union’s Commissioner for rural economy and agriculture, Josefa Sacko, told EURACTIV in an interview.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, via video message at a conference in Berlin on Saturday (21 January), called on 70 national agriculture ministers to support his country in exporting grain as they also unanimously condemned Russia's war of aggression.
More than 700 other scientists from across European member states and scientific disciplines have deep concern about the recent turn of the political tide against the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation, writes Jeoren Candel.
A new EU-funded project has been launched by the UN’s Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the westernmost regions of Ukraine, but national stakeholders have warned funding is not directed towards those most hard-hit by war.
