A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and ...

Rural voices still seem to go unheard in EU policymaking. The Rural Pact Coordination Group proposes a new tool for rural ...

If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must earn a ...

The Commission has published "A Vision for Agriculture and Food", where it scales back the green ambitions of the Farm-to-Fork strategy, passing the buck to Member States to implement sufficient ...

The field of plant biotechnology is undergoing a profound transformation. The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is fundamentally reshaping the way genetic engineering is conducted.

The European Commission has been quietly weighing up options to radically overhaul its budget. This could see all of its 500+ biggest money pots merged into one mega money pot, divided out based on ...

A new study from the Greenpeace European Unit - Go Big or go Bust shows just how rapidly farming in Europe is going in a particular trajectory. Simply put, small farm are disappearing, and large farms ...

NGOs and governmental institutions have many proposals for approaches to pesticide reduction in Europe. Almost all exclude nutrient management. But if we want to reduce pesticides, that is where we ...

A master gardener and co-founder of the SEED association for the preservation and use of the region's traditional seed varieties, Frank Adams has long been involved in the legislative battle waged by ...

The EU's recent decision to tax Russian cereals over Ukrainian ones, and the maintenance of solidary lanes with Ukraine despite protests, highlights the relationship between policy and geopolitical ...

The Austrian Local Action Group (LAG) Styrian Volcanic Land (Steirisches Vulkanland) wanted to know the impacts of its local development efforts over the last quarter-century. To find out, they ...

Investing in a small family farm is much more than an economic consideration: it can help to revitalise an entire village. In the Greek village of Trikorfo (Τρίκορφο), father and son Vasilis and Lukas ...