This month marked the end of the Strategic Dialogue on the future of EU agriculture, an initiative first announced by President of the EU Commission Von der Leyen at her State of the Union address last year and that saw stakeholders in Europe engaged in discussions...
A new initiative was launched in the spring 2024 as part of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and aligned to its target of achieving 25% organic farmland by 2030. The project aims to address the urgent need for skilled advisors in organic farming by creating and nurturing...
The EU ALL-Ready project, aimed at setting the scene for a European Network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures has come to an end and published all project deliverables.
Cultivated diversity advocates write joint letter to the European Commission ahead of the EU Seed Marketing Legislation reform proposal
Issued by the Publications Office of the EU: Guidance to Member States in improving the contribution of land-use, forestry and agriculture to enhance climate, energy and environment ambition.
Pesticides are toxic and have multiple and complex impacts on the environment and our lives: these are analysed in some detail in the Pesticide Atlas 2022, a joint publication by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Friends of the Earth Europe, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz, and PAN Europe. Available in both English and German.
The 2022 edition of “The World of Organic Agriculture” was launched on February 15, 2022 at a virtual event organized by BIOFACH, IFOAM – Organics International and the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL.
BRUSSELS, 25 MARCH 2021 – The organic food and farming movement welcomes today’s publication of the European Organic Action Plan 2021-2027, and particularly its “push-pull” approach, aiming at balancing increases in both production and demand of organic products. Jan...
The European Commission is launching a public consultation on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (for a review of the statements on seeds and cultivated biodiversity, see fact sheet 3009). This consultation is open to all from 4 November to 2 December 2020. Written...
The report ‘Local food systems to address global risks: from the climate crisis to COVID-19’, is the third report on local food policies by the Red de Ciudades por la Agrocología, and addresses the vulnerabilities and strategies to be implemented...
