Welcome to EURACTIV's AgriFood Brief, your weekly update on all things Agriculture & Food in the EU from EURACTIV's Agrifood news team: Gerardo Fortuna and Natasha Foote
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In-depth interviews with the politicians, leaders and most influential people in Irish agriculture.
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A lookahead and a fond look back with a big announcement
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Nature restoration special & farming emissions
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EURACTIV's agrifood team brings you the latest from Strasbourg where MEPs voted their position on two important files for the future of the EU’s agriculture: the industrial emissions directive and the nature restoration law. We take a deep dive into the latter along with EURACTIV’s very own energy and environment reporter Kira Taylor and Olliver Mo…
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Farming has to ‘change’ in Ireland – Eamon Ryan
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The Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, has said that farming “has to change” in Ireland because there has been “a loss of nature in the last 50 years that has to be reversed”. “We’ve gone from having 500 pristine water systems down to 20. That has to change, it’s not just farming, we have to change how we do forestry.…
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Busiest week of the year & Timmermans interview
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This week, EURACTIV talks you through everything you need to know on the presentation of the Commission’s ‘sustainable use of natural resources’, and EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote talks with Vice President Frans Timmermans about his message to farmers amid rising tensions over the EU’s nature restoration plans and his vision for the future structure of …
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She is the undisputed queen of the ploughing in Ireland and this year Anna May McHugh celebrates 50 years as managing director of the National Ploughing Association (NPA). In the latest edition of On the Record with Agriland she shares the secrets of her success – “be nice to people” is the motto by which she lives and why her determination has got…
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Gene editing and soil proposals, regenerative agriculture
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This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team debriefs the agriculture ministers' meeting in Luxembourg and looks ahead at the "Food and Biodiversity Package," a set of legislative proposals expected from the European Commission on Wednesday. Over in New York, Gerardo Fortuna spoke to Bayer’s Rodrigo Santos and Axel Trautwein about regenerative agriculture a…
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Gene-editing leak and animal welfare from a vet's eyes
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This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team talks you through the leaked draft of one of the most contentious proposals from the European Commission in the past months: gene editing. EURACTIV's Paula Andres talks to Mette Uldahl, Vice President of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe, about the state of animal welfare in EU farms and what is lacking.…
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A sneak peak at Spain’s Presidency priorities and leaked pesticides study
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you an exclusive interview with Spain’s agriculture minister, Luis Planas, who details the country’s agricultural priorities ahead of the Spanish presidency starting in July. We also talk you through a leak of an additional Commission study on the EU’s plans to slash the use and risk of pesticides in half …
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EU-Ukraine agri-trade & Indonesian minister talks palm oil
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This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team talks you through the EU's decision to extend trade restrictions on select agricultural commodities coming from Ukraine and why this has proven controversial on both sides, and Gerardo Fortuna, together with EURACTIV's very own Transport Editor Sean Goulding, speaks with Indonesia's coordinating minister for econ…
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Polish Commissioner, Parliament protests & getting ‘grounded’
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the controversies at a recent meeting of EU agriculture ministers, including how the EU’s agriculture Commissioner is increasingly prioritising Polish issues, and discusses the pushback to the EU’s nature restoration law, both within the institution and around it. EURACTIV’s Julia Dahm also spea…
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Parliament battles over votes & CAP environmental exemptions
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through two key votes in the European Parliament on the nature restoration law and EU rules to slash industrial emissions and EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote speaks with Helmut Burtscher-Schaden from the Austrian environmental NGO GLOBAL 2000 about how the environmental exemptions in the CAP, which were taken …
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This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team brings you to a young farmers' conference discussing sustainability in agriculture, where EURACTIV also spoke to EU's Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans. EURACTIV's Julia Dahm walks you through the potential voluntary animal welfare labelling system in the context of the upcoming revision of the Commission's anima…
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Claire Kerrane – ‘CAP should support food production’
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Sinn Féin TD, Claire Kerrane has said that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was set up to ensure food production but now seems to be “going in a different direction”. In the latest interview in Agriland’s On the Record series, the Roscommon-Galway TD said that climate is a big focus of CAP now but that it should be a different pillar, with food…
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The centre-right's anti-Green Deal 'crusade'
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This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team brings you all you need to know on the centre-right's attack on the agricultural parts of the EU Green Deal, including the EU's plans to slash the use and risk of pesticides and the EU's nature restoration law, and EURACTIV's Natasha Foote speaks to liberal MEP and chair of the European Parliament's environment c…
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Increase in dairy herd ‘unsustainable’ – EPA's DG Laura Burke
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Transformation is needed in agriculture, the director general at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned. Laura Burke believes that if agriculture in Ireland continues to operate the way it is currently doing, it will not meet its environmental targets. “We can’t keep doing the same things and expect a different result and that’s the l…
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PastEUs de nata, year of sustainable food
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team tells the story of a Portuguese delicacy that has a strong, unsuspecting link with a foundational moment of the EU’s integration process. We also spoke with French liberal MEP Irène Tolleret about a proposal filed by a coalition of EU lawmakers to proclaim 2024 as the European Year devoted to ‘sustainable and res…
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This week, EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote explores the fallout of the unilateral decision of frontline EU countries to ban agricultural imports from Ukraine with the help of Ukraine’s deputy agricultural minister, Markiyan Dmytrasevych, who explains the impact of the decision on Ukrainian farmers and how he sees it playing into Russia’s hands. EURACTIV a…
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Michael Fitzmaurice on his plans for a rural party
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Farmers are “nearly ashamed to say they are a farmer” in 2023, according to Independent TD for Roscommon-Galway, Michael Fitzmaurice. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice believes Ireland “needs a completely new type of party, from the bottom up” that listens to farmers and the rural community. In an ‘On the Record’ interview with Agriland, the TD said he be…
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Ukraine's import ban, animal transport and a leak
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood editor Gerardo Fortuna walks you through the key issues around the controversial ban from Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia on the import of agricultural goods from Ukraine. EURACTIV’s Paula Andrés talks about a leaked impact assessment on the ongoing animal welfare legislation revision and interviews Eva Lindström, a mem…
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What to watch in Strasbourg and Spanish water politics
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the main things to keep an eye on in the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, and EURACTIV’s Paula Andrés explores the water politics of the Spanish National Park of Doñana, which has recently become the epicentre of a clash between local fruit producers, environmentalists, and nat…
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Power imbalances and reflections from Ireland
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood OG’s talk about the divides in the Commission and the increasing marginalisation of EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, and EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote talks reflects on her recent trip to Ireland to the ‘Feeding Ourselves’ gathering and the issues facing the agrifood sector in the country, including soarin…
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No investigation into fertiliser prices – Minister McConalogue
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There will be no government-backed investigation into the price farmers are paying for fertiliser in Ireland, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue. The minister told Agriland‘ that fertiliser prices are “outside” of his control as minister. He said it is a “market issue”. “It’s important that farmers d…
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This week, EURACTIV’s Agrifood team brings you the latest from the European Council where UN Secretary-General António Guterres asked EU leaders to lift sanctions on Belarus fertiliser potash. We also talked about the Commission’s decision to trigger the agriculture reserve to support Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania in coping with increased imports o…
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Agri emissions, Mercosur update, honey queen
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This week, EURACTIV’s Agrifood team brings you the latest on the industrial emissions directive (IED) and leads you through the agenda of this week’s Agrifish Council with a focus on Mercosur talks in Europe. EURACTIV’s Julia Dahm speaks with Tadeja Vidmar, a beekeeper and small farmer from Slovenia who is the current honey queen as elected by the …
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This week, EURACTIV discusses a leaked draft of EU member states’ compromise text on the industrial emissions directive, and we hear from EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski for his take on the controversies surrounding the directive. We also speak with Isabel Paliotta, policy officer at the European environmental bureau, for her take …
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Tractor takeover, pest threat, baby shark
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This week, EURACTIV's Agrifood news team reports from a large-scale Flemish farmers' protest in Brussels and Natasha Foote speaks with Sybren Vos, a team leader at the European Food Safety Agency's Plant Health division, to learn more about the first appearance of the fall armyworm in Europe - a pest which can damage and destroy a wide variety of c…
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through the Commission’s fisheries package which includes the ambition to ban bottom trawling from all marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2030, and EURACTIV’s Paula Andrés talks to Enrico Somaglia from the European trade union of food and agriculture (EFFAT) about the new social conditionality tool in the…
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Agrifood Podcast: Livestock leak, chat with MEP on pesticides
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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks about the leaked Commission’s document that suggests some livestock sectors will be hit more than previously thought by the revision of the Industrial emissions directive (IED). We also speak about the clash between two European Parliament committees over the competence of the new EU’s pesticide rules. EURA…
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