The Interreg NWE project CurCol aims to demonstrate economic potential for the production chains from regionally produced plants to colourants in packaging. The focus of CurCol is on the yellow natural colourant Curcumine.
he fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented uncertainties in global food supply chains, with potential bottlenecks in labour markets, input industries, agriculture production, food processing, transport and logistics, as well as shifts in demand for food and food services. In the short term, the economic and social impacts of the pandemic interrupt the generally positive medium-term outlook for global agricultural production and food consumption.
In the webinar latest developments and innovative solutions for the sustainable production of biomass and low-ILUC risk options in agriculture will be discussed, including also a contribution by FNR about ‘Growing perennial crops on marginal land in Europe for bioenergy’.
The Soybean Innovation Lab will be hosting our upcoming webinar, Soybean Disease in the Tropics: A Management Toolkit, on Thursday, April 9 at 8 am CST.
Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new gene that improves the yield and fertilizer use efficiency of rice.
The extent of soil pollution in the EU is alarming. In the Italian region of Apulia, 22 grape farmers are working together in a cooperative. One of their main aims is to manage and maintain healthy soil.
The Country Dashboards include now a new section about biophysical indicators on land use.
The September edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment.
Crop and livestock production is projected to decrease and may even have to be abandoned in parts of Europe’s southern and Mediterranean regions due to the increased negative impacts of climate change, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report published on 04 Sep 2019.
The August edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
ASAP system has been upgraded to version 4.0.
The EU is adopting new rules for placing fertilising products on the EU market. The Council today adopted a regulation which harmonises the requirements for fertilisers produced from phosphate minerals and from organic or secondary raw materials in the EU, opening up new possibilities for their production and marketing on a large scale. The regulation sets harmonised limits for a range of contaminants, such as cadmium, contained in mineral fertilisers.
