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Opening date: 10 February 2026 | Deadline date: 15 September 2026 | Single-stage Open For Submission Programme: Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021/2027)
This proposal for a regulation aims to support the implementation of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy, in terms of building lead markets for industrial biotechnology and bio-based materials, while ensuring sustainable biomass supply across the value chain. The Call for Evidence targets a broad range of stakeholders, from researchers to innovators and biotech companies, and it is open until 10 June. Stakeholders are invited to share their views on the main challenges that the industrial biotechnology and biomanufacturing sectors are facing across the EU, and the priority intervention areas for the European Commission.
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This study analyses the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more specifically: a) how different organic interventions enable farmers to practice organic agriculture; b) how organic agriculture comparatively performs in terms of productivity and profitability.
This study analyses the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more specifically: a) how different organic interventions enable farmers to practice organic agriculture; b) how organic agriculture comparatively performs in terms of productivity and profitability.
Blue foods include thousands of species of aquatic plants and animals, many of them rich in protein and micronutrients. This vast diversity offers enormous potential. Sustainably harvested blue foods can help achieve the SDGs by alleviating hunger and malnutrition; improving health; reducing pressure on oceans, water, land and climate; and maintaining or creating decent livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
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This global systematic review compiling 321 studies confirms that gender is one of the consistent but often overlooked determinants of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) adoption.
Climate change can increase conflict risk or severity, but primarily in contexts marked by high vulnerability to climate extremes and high underlying conflict risk.
Geopolitical conflict in the Arabian Gulf carries profound implications for global food security that extend far beyond the immediate theatre of hostilities.