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The increasing threat of soil degradation presents significant challenges to soil health, especially within agroecosystems that are vital for food security, climate regulation, and economic stability. This growing concern arises from intricate interactions between land use practices and climatic conditions, which, if not addressed, could jeopardize sustainable development and environmental resilience.
Neglected and underutilized species (NUS) are vital for nutrition, food security, climate resilience, and cultural heritage.
The article India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Today, the European Commission adopted the main Horizon Europe work programme for 2026-2027, a €14 billion investment designed to drive research and innovation (R&I) across the EU's strategic goals.
Leaders of the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) member states met in Luanda, Angola for the seventh EU-AU summit under the theme ‘Promoting peace and prosperity through effective multilateralism’.
COP30 in Belém leaves behind a complex political atmosphere, shaped by global divisions and even the unexpected drama of a fire in the venue.
With this proposal, businesses are expected to save approximately €1 billion per year, bringing the annual administrative savings stemming from the omnibuses and other simplification initiatives the Commission has already presented to almost €11 billion per year.
Women farmers are all women working in agrifood systems in different capacities across all segments of value chains.
Today, the Council’s presidency and the European Parliament’s representatives reached a provisional political agreement on a targeted revision of the EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR).
Agroecology has been advocated as a promising approach in Africa to increase productivity, preserve natural resources, ensure economic viability and achieve social justice. However, supporting evidence has been so far limited to single case studies, while a more systematic analysis is lacking.
A mitigation marathon, a mutirão of ideas and a maze of multilateralism. But as the sun set over Belém, and the final gavel fell after two weeks of negotiations on the climate crisis, the world asked: did COP30 move us any closer to a safer, fairer future?
In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 16 countries and territories identified as hotspots between November 2025 and May 2026, prompting an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in these identified hunger hotspots.
FEP welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament of the amendment removing all printed products (books, newspapers and magazines) from the scope of the Deforestation Regulation.
The document if the main outcome of the COP30 held in Belém, Brazil, from November 11 to November 21, 2025.
The COP30 climate summit is entering its final days in Belém – and food, forests and land have all featured across the two weeks of talks.
The Operational Guide on Agroecology is a comprehensive theoretical and methodological guide to support the integration, implementation, and evaluation of agroecological transitions within development cooperation.
Ferrero, Mars Wrigley, Tony’s Chocolonely, Unilever, Fairtrade International, Fairtrade Advocacy Office, Rainforest Alliance, Solidaridad and VOICE Network strongly oppose the amendments tabled to the European Commission’s proposal to delay the EU Deforestation Regulation, and call on MEPs to vote against them and to adopt the Commission’s proposal without further amendment.
