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Tag: Agriculture

  • EU Agriculture Ministers back European Commission’s vision on agrifood

    25 Mar 2025

    This week, European ministers of agriculture discussed the European Commission’s Vision for the Future of Agriculture and Food for the first time since Commissioner Hansen presen...

    Tags: Agriculture, European Commission, Food Safety

  • Greenpeace reveals mega-farm bias in EU agricultural policy

    04 Oct 2024

    A Greenpeace briefing, named “Go Big or Go Burst” reveals that, because of the way subsidies are designed, current EU farming policies force farmers to industrialise an...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, mega-farms

  • EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL: THE MANY RISKS

    25 Sep 2024

    The Heinrich Böll Foundation, linked to the German Green Party, has put out their assessment of the risks the European Green Deal faces under the new European Commission. Those ri...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Pesticides

  • Prioritising biodiversity-friendly foods to stop biodiversity loss

    22 Mar 2024

    Biodiversity loss, driven by human activities, threatens ecosystems essential for our air and food, and is a critical concern for food security. This leads us to wonder which foods...

    Tags: Agriculture, Biodiversity-friendly, Consumers

  • The farmer demonstrations across Europe are growing

    01 Feb 2024

    Political leaders have been taken away by the widespread farmer protests that are sweeping the European Union, although the unrest has been simmering for years. Farmers face a plet...

    Tags: Agriculture, EU, farmers

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    Herbicide exposure has negative effects on brain function in adolescents, study reports

    19 Oct 2023

    A new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives highlights a concerning link between herbicides like glyphosate and impaired brain function in adolescents. L...

    Tags: Agriculture, European Commission, Food Safety, Glyphosate

  • The European Commission proposes re-approval of glyphosate for 10 years

    21 Sep 2023

    The European Commission has put forth a proposal to grant a 10-year extension for glyphosate. The contentious chemical substance stands as the most widely utilised pesticide across...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, European Commission, Pesticides

  • No obstacles to ban glyphosate – New report by PAN Europe shows that alternatives exist for all uses

    14 Mar 2023

    Ahead of the EU’s decision on whether or not to re-approve glyphosate at the end of this year, the NGO Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe has just published a report for t...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, European Commission, Glyphosate, Human Health

  • New report reveals EU’s failure to reduce use of most dangerous pesticides

    24 May 2022

    Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) just released a new report highlighting that the European Union (EU) is alarmingly going in the wrong direction regarding pesticides us...

    Tags: Agriculture, European Commission, Farm to Fork, Pesticides

  • Climate Change threatens food security

    01 Mar 2022

    The latest IPCC report portrays an alarming scenario for the future of our food systems. Global warming threatens food production and access to food. According to researchers, the ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Food Systems, Global warming, Soil

  • Plant-based put forward in the EU’s 2022 promotional policy

    06 Jan 2022

    The EU will support the consumption of plant-based products as reported in the 2022 promotional policy published last December. The policy allocates 185.9 million euros to the prom...

    Tags: Agriculture, European Commission, Farm to Fork, Meat, plant-based

  • Emmanuel Macron unveils the priorities of the French EU Presidency

    10 Dec 2021

    French president Emmanuel Macron held a press on conference on December 9th to unveil France’s programme for the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, which w...

    Tags: Agriculture, France, Pesticides, Rotating Presidency, Trade Agreement

  • Ethylene oxide in foods: still a long way to go in reaching coordination

    01 Jul 2021

    In the past few months, organisations have revealed that non-compliant products containing ingredients illegally processed with ethylene oxide were still being sold without proper ...

    Tags: Agriculture, ethylene oxide, European Commission, Food Safety

  • Provisional agreement reached on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

    29 Jun 2021

    On June 25th, 2021, a deal was finally found between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Council on the reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP...

    Tags: Agriculture, Common Agricultural Policy, European Commission, european council, European Parliament, green deal, Pesticides

  • Bulgaria: Pesticide with EU-banned substance still widely used in Bulgarian agriculture

    19 Apr 2021

    The investigative journalist Valia Ahchieva published a video showing a sad reality in Bulgaria: The Mocap, a plant protection product containing an ingredient banned by the EU is ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Bulgaria, Pesticides

  • European Ombudsman asks Commission to increase transparency in the approval process for pesticides

    14 Dec 2020

    In a recently published decision, the EU Ombudsman has raised concerns regarding the current procedure for the approval of active substances in pesticides by the Commission. The pr...

    Tags: Agriculture, EFSA, European Commission, European Ombudsman, Pesticides, Transparency

  • CSOs call for Withdrawal of the EC proposal for the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy

    02 Nov 2020

    On 30 October, CSOs wrote to EC President von der Leyen to call on the European Commission to withdraw its proposal on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to safeguard th...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, European Commission, NGOs

  • German Scientific Advisory Board recommands using climate labels

    26 Aug 2020

    The German Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection(WBAE) has urged the government to introduce mandatory climate labels on food produc...

    Tags: Agriculture, Children, food label, Germany, Labelling, Sugar tax

  • EU farm ministers seek targeted measures to withstand COVID-19

    12 Apr 2020

    EU agriculture ministers have called for further specific and targeted measures to address the difficulties faced by the agri-food sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic such as restr...

    Tags: Agriculture, covid-19, farming, Food Policy

  • IPCC latest report calling for global Food Waste reduction in agriculture

    27 Aug 2019

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations issued a report in August 2019 highlighting the need for a drastic reduction of Food Waste to reduce glob...

    Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, farming, Food Waste, GHG, IPCC, livestock

  • CAPNGO’s Open letter to AGRI Committee MEPs concerning CAP proposals

    21 Mar 2019

    On 20th March, the CAPNGO Working Group, gathering around fifteen NGOs to advocate for better proposals for the next Common Agricultural Policy, sent an open letter to Members of t...

    Tags: Agriculture, biodiversity, CAP, European Parliament, MEP, Sustainable food

  • The pesticide-free town: Sowing the seeds of tomorrow

    17 Jul 2018

    In 2014 Mals, a small town in the north of Italy, became the first community in the world to ban pesticide use through a referendum. How did these activists triumph over the pestic...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Italy, Organic, Pesticides

  • Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

    20 Jun 2018

    Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Meat, Nutrition, Vegan

  • High risk of food shortages without pesticides, says chemical giant

    18 Jun 2018

    Head of Syngenta, world’s biggest pesticide maker, says rejecting farming tech could have serious consequences within 20 years. Read the full article on The Guardian here....

    Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, EU, Organic, Pesticides

  • Pesticide Dependency Reductions must become one of the success indicators of the Common Agricultural Policy

    05 Jun 2018

    On the 1st of June, the European Commission has published its legislative proposals and its impact assessment on CAP reform. Within the hundreds of pages of documents, pesticide us...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • European alliance calls for a ‘Common Food Policy’ to replace the CAP

    04 Jun 2018

    Following the EU Food and Farming Forum of 29-30 May 2018, a group of more than 30 European think tanks, NGOs and farming groups have united to call for a ‘Common Food Policy’ ...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU

  • 50 shades of green: Europe’s farm reforms explained

    01 Jun 2018

    Deep budget cuts and an untested plan to let national governments take the reins are causing jitters across the bloc. Read the full article on Politico here....

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission

  • Insufficient consideration for food issue in CAP

    30 May 2018

    The Commission is due to unveil its next Common Agriculture Policy on June 1st and Olivier De Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right for food and co-chair of the inter...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Sustainable food

  • Revealed: majority of politicians on key EU farming panel have industry links

    24 May 2018

    Research uncovers that 25 out of 46 MEPs of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee have strong links to the farming sector they are charged with regulating. Read the ful...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, EU, European Parliament, Transparency

  • Weedkiller products more toxic than their active ingredient, tests show

    08 May 2018

    After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show that some popular weedkilling products, like Monsanto’s widely-used Roundup, have higher rates of toxicity t...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Farmers hail new transparency rules in food safety, still want science-based decisions

    18 Apr 2018

    EU farmers have welcomed the European Commission’s new rules on transparency in food safety assessments. However, it is still uncertain to which extent this will ensure that futu...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup, Transparency

  • Post-2020 CAP: simplification and investments

    26 Mar 2018

    The European Commission, steered by Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, has taken a number of initiatives to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and help EU farmers cope...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Member States

  • Report says end meat and dairy subsidies, tax meat in shift to crop protein diet

    12 Mar 2018

    According to a report released at a debate held at the European Parliament on the 27th of February, the EU and the UK after Brexit should end subsidies for meat and dairy productio...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, CAP, Environment, Event, Meat, Vegan

  • Greenpeace: Cut out meat to meet Paris Agreement goals

    05 Mar 2018

    According to a new Greenpeace report, the world needs to cut the production and consumption of meat in half by 2050 in order to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. The ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, CAP, Climate Change, Environment, Meat

  • Des OGM interdits découverts dans des aliments pour animaux

    21 Feb 2018

    Un vent de panique souffle sur la Commission européenne. Selon des documents officiels auquel Le Monde a eu accès, des produits destinés à l’alimentation animale ont été ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, Consumers, European Commission, Food Safety, France, GMO

  • Six member states call for glyphosate alternatives, exit plan

    05 Jan 2018

    Six member states that opposed the re-authorisation glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, sent a letter to the European Commission last month asking the EU execu...

    Tags: Agriculture, ECHA, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • New organic rules and animal welfare: Meeting social expectations or not?

    04 Jan 2018

    The EU organic logo brings certain guarantees about high standards of animal welfare, and EU institutions ought to show strong commitment to address weaknesses in regards to anima...

    Tags: Agriculture, animal welfare, Animals, European Parliament, Organic

  • The Future of Food and Farming – for a flexible, fair and sustainable Common Agricultural Policy

    30 Nov 2017

    Read the full press release from the European Commission on the Future of Food and Farming here....

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, CAP, Climate Change, Environment, European Commission, Meat, Organic

  • German vote swings EU decision on 5-year glyphosate renewal

    28 Nov 2017

    EU member states agreed on Monday (27 November) on a five-year renewal period for the controversial herbicide glyphosate, used by Monsanto in its Roundup product. The decision was ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Member states approve new organic rules ahead of Parliament vote

    22 Nov 2017

    EU member states agreed on Monday (20 November) to a new set of rules for organic farming, simplifying the system and creating a level playing field for EU produce and imports. The...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, GMO, Member States, Organic, Pesticides

  • MEPs demand glyphosate phase-out, with full ban by end 2022

    24 Oct 2017

    Parliament backed a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides by December 2022 and immediate restrictions on the use of the substance, on Tuesday.   Read the full article on Eur...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Andriukaitis: ‘Enough’ with member states hiding behind the Commission on glyphosate

    10 Oct 2017

    The member states should stop hiding behind or even pointing the finger at the European Commission regarding the re-authorisation of the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, gl...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • MEPs reject Commission’s endocrine disruptor definition

    09 Oct 2017

    The European Commission will have to rewrite its definition of endocrine disruptors, after MEPs shot down the executive’s proposal in a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday (4 October...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • Endocrine disruptors: A guilty definition

    04 Oct 2017

    French socialist MEPs are defiant against the Commission’s “weak, superficial and incomplete” definition of endocrine disruptors, blaming it on French Ecology Minister Nicol...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Endocrine disruptors: Report exposes scale of contamination as Parliament vote looms

    04 Oct 2017

    More than one-third of all fruit consumed in the EU is contaminated with residues of endocrine disrupting pesticides, according to a study published on Tuesday (3 October), a day b...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Hormone, Monsanto, Pesticides

  • GMOs: EU court says states can’t ban them unless risks are proven

    18 Sep 2017

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday (13 September) that member states cannot adopt emergency measures banning genetically modified organisms (GMOs) without evide...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, EU Court of Justice, GMO

  • Legislators push smallholders to the heart of smart farming talks

    04 Sep 2017

    Several EU lawmakers from the European Parliament’s agriculture committee expressed their concerns on Wednesday (30 August) about the introduction of new technologies in farmin...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Precision farming

  • Netherlands finds second banned chemical on chicken farms as cost of scandal spirals

    30 Aug 2017

    The tainted eggs scandal deepened once again on Thursday (24 August), as Dutch Health Minister Edith Schippers said traces of a second banned insecticide had been found on Dutch po...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, Food Safety, Pesticides

  • Food industry upset over obligatory labelling of origin of pasta and rice

    30 Aug 2017

    Italy’s decision to impose mandatory labelling on pasta and rice packaging has triggered protests from the food industry, which has called on the European Commission to cancel ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Country of origin, European Commission, Food Packaging, Labelling

  • Des experts européens ont sous-estimé des études sur les dangers du glyphosate

    31 May 2017

    Des études qui mettent en évidence le lien entre plusieurs cas de cancer et le glyphosate ont été sous-estimées par les agences d’expertise européennes. C’est ce que rév...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Food Safety, Glyphosate

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