The Commission’s Farm to Fork strategy is a welcome response to global food production challenges, but it needs to be implemented coherently and correctly, writes Elsi Katainen.
The Nordic-Baltic research organisations’ network PROFOR would like to invite stakeholders and policymakers to discuss synergies and to highlight trade-offs between sustainable forest production and other ecosystem services, in an European and a science-based knowledge context.
Once upon a time, energy from biomass like wood, manure, whale oil and other sources was the primary supplier of heat, light and food processing. If we should like to contain climate change effectively, would we have to return to those times?
This year the SME Assembly - the premier European event dedicated to entrepreneurs - tackled the issue of sustainability.Delegates set out to understand if companies betting on 'green' growth are making the right choice, what kind of support and funding is available and what challenges do they face.
Today in the margins of the 2019 Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa, the European Commission signed two guarantee agreements with two Member States' development finance institution: the Dutch 'Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V' (FMO) and the Italian 'Cassa Depositi e Prestiti' (CDP). These guarantee agreements are part of the implementation of the EU External Investment Plan, the financial arm of the Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs.
On 6th of November 2019, the African Union (AU) - European Union (EU) partnership officially launched the Pan African Network for economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP Network).
Global ceremony in Rome highlights need to step up actions to make ending hunger and malnutrition in all its forms possible by 2030
Brazilian indigenous people and traditional communities have special hereditary agricultural systems, which harmonically include forestry, rivers and agriculture with a broad knowledge of different ecosystems. The project in partnership with the European Union shows that the structuring of sociobiodiversity value chains is a central element to promote the communities' way of life, their territories and knowledge with the challenge do add “socioenvironmental services” value to promote sustainability.
The First FAO/WHO/AU International Conference on Food Safety
Starch Europe’s annual conference will take place on the theme “Innovating Together for a sustainable Food System: Meeting tomorrow’s demands on our agricultural resources”.
