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.
The agriculture ministers from Nordic-Baltic countries urge the EU to strongly support Ukraine’s ability to export its agricultural products to the EU and to world markets.
European fisheries are at the heart of a diplomatic crisis brewing between the EU and the UK, their first trade spat since the UK left the European Union in February 2020.
To reduce the carbon footprint of food, all stakeholders, including farmers, companies, and regulators, need to collaborate on solutions which drive demand towards sustainable products.
The end of the saga on the temporary liberalisation of Ukraine's imports to the EU could mark a new start in relations between Brussels and Kyiv.
A Delegated Regulation is threatening the EU fish processing industry and consumers. To avert foreseen risks, the Polish Association of Fish Processors urges MEPs to reject it at the plenary session of 10-11 April and call for consultation with EFSA.
To move ahead on the path to replace animal tests for ensuring safety of chemicals, we need progress in science, better knowledge and close collaboration between scientists, regulators, industry and other stakeholders.
The Initiative ‘Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing in the EU’ offers the promise, although not yet the commitment, for biotechnology in the EU at the scale and vision needed for global significance. EuropaBio looks inside and to the future.
The agriculture sector is the backbone that helps feed the 450 million people in the EU with healthy, affordable food. Yet, despite its apparent strength, our food markets face unprecedented challenges.
The European Parliament Elections in June 2024 will be a landmark for the economic and political direction of EU. Policymakers should seize this opportunity to strengthen the Single Market and make the EU a strong player vis-à-vis our global competitors.
EU initiatives against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have always excluded the agricultural sector. This is meant to avoid side effects on global food security, as Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat and a major player in the global fertiliser market.
Animal welfare is one of those rare issues that is neither left nor right. Across the political spectrum and irrespective of nationality, you’ll always find politicians who care about the plight of animals; it is certainly not the exclusive domain of the Greens and the Left.
Despite the potential for nature restoration to bring benefits for multiple sectors across Europe, the funding gap remains immense and urgent. With 19 international organisations, we’re proposing a new funding model: “Landscape Finance”, a financing approach that supports holistic, community-driven landscape restoration.
More than a farmers' rally, Place Luxembourg in Brussels today was a kaleidoscope of different and sometimes opposing claims. More than a united movement with a set of agreed demands, it was a tower of Babel, replete with social movements that do not talk to each other, and seemingly not even the same language.
The EU and its member states can and must jointly do more for animal welfare. This is the clear message the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council wants to convey by organising a one-day conference dedicated to our treatment of animals, write Stella Kyriakides, Ben Weyt, Celine Tellie and Bernard Clerfay.
Farmers taking to the streets are making headlines all over Europe, and this is not their first season of discontent.
After a year-long discussions, the EU Parliament and the Council of the EU reached their negotiating positions on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. SBFE shares its take on the likely outcome of reuse and refill obligations, as well as suggestions for enhancing recyclability.
The Collective in favour of varietal innovation, composed of 30 professional organisations from the agricultural sector, is calling for a science-based regulation for the new genomic techniques (NGT).
A new Delegated Regulation jeopardises the fish processing industry. To avert risks to food safety, quality, and industry competitiveness, Polish and Danish fish processing associations urge European policymakers to reject it, calling for prior consultation with EFSA.
On December 5 DG Energy finally published its data on the origins of renewable fuels certified for transport under the Renewable Energy Directive. The findings are worse than feared. James Cogan is a policy advisor to Ethanol Europe. The …
Ahead of the Environment Council seeking a General Approach on Packaging and Packaging Waste, The Brewers of Europe call on decision makers to level the playing field and ensure all alcoholic beverage sectors play by the same rules.
The European Commission justifies the deregulation of new genomic techniques with sustainability benefits & higher yields. This promise is untenable as deregulating NGTs won't do the job, writes Karl Bär.
Poverty and inequality are at the root of many of the human rights and the environmental issues in the global cocoa value chain. At the producer level poverty leaves those at the beginning of this chain with few choices. It forces them to rely on their children instead of fully-paid adult workers for labour. And to stay above water, it leads many to expand their farms into forest land in an effort to increase their income.
Geographical indications (GIs) were also a big factor in the EU’s growing export performance. But the globalisation of the EU’s approach also triggered two unplanned and unintended developments, writes a former top EU trade negotiator.
