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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)
A new study in Environmental Policy and Governance explores how the EU bioeconomy is framed through multiple policy narratives and interpreted by diverse stakeholders. The authors identify nine distinct narratives and argue that the bioeconomy functions as a flexible “boundary object” that enables collaboration across sectors, while also masking important tensions and trade-offs around sustainability, growth, and resource use.
This brief outlines the JRC work to exploit Earth Observation (EO) based policy indicators for evaluating agricultural policies, addressing data quality issues and the gap between EO data and policy needs. Indicators on crop diversity, crop rotation, cover crops, crop phenology, and grassland age could support the evaluation of key EU policies related to agriculture and land use (e.g. Common Agricultural Policy, LULUCF, Nature Restoration, Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Regulation, as well as Soil Monitoring Directive).
Publication
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.
Resource
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.