From Asters to Allethrin: The New Frontier of Agricultural Biologicals
In light of the Baysanto merger recently approved, Ian Fitzpatrick investigates the new frontier of agricultural biologicals. […]
In light of the Baysanto merger recently approved, Ian Fitzpatrick investigates the new frontier of agricultural biologicals. […]
The 2015-2020 CAP in France has fallen short of expectations. Despite novel governance mechanisms, the scheme has been burdened with administrative complexities and delays and has under-performed. In the run-up to the upcoming CAP reform, Aurélie Catallo talks through these shortfalls of the current CAP in France. […]
The European Commission envisages a future CAP where funding is based on performance. How could such a delivery model ensure more ambitious environmental policy rather than business-as-usual? The IEEP provides some ideas.
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Samuel Féret gives us his analysis of the new European agricultural policy promoted by Emmanuel Macron. Despite France being the CAP’s leading recipient of financial support, at 12 billion a year on average, President Macron is willing to break taboos and change the narrative about France in the EU. […]
President Emmanuel Macron launched the General State of Food (GSF), an investigation into the French agrifood system in the second half of 2017. Laure Ducos reports on how the GSF went and its role in French agroecological transition. […]
The second UN FAO International Symposium on Agroecology – Agroecology: Scaling Up agroecology to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – begins Tuesday 3rd April. What’s happening? We’ve got all the livestream links, readings, videos and more… […]
How can biodiversity loss and ecosystem services be valued? What are the implications of putting a monetary value on nature? Ian Fitzpatrick investigates current research on ecosystem service valuation. […]
When we change how land is used, it doesn’t just impact on this one area. Italian trio Riccardo Scalenghe, Francesco Malucelli and Mario Catizzone examine soil matters in the Emilia-Romagna Plain, Italy, and help us understand what is truly lost when we loose soil without thinking about all the impacts. […]
In Part 2, Gabriel Ash examines whether Free/ Open Source Software (FOSS) can really counter the commodification of agricultural knowledge. […]
AgTech is being mainstreamed. Can Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) be a way to make it accessible to all? In this 2-part piece, Gabriel Ash explores agricultural knowledge and the digital commons. […]
On the day of an unsuccessful Agrifish Council meeting, the ECA publishes a damning report on CAP performance and the Commission’s Communication. […]
Ministers of agriculture from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland sign joint declaration on future of CAP ,calling for full convergence of direct payments. […]
The role of farming in climate change mitigation is controversial and fraught. The UN COP (Conference of Parties) Climate Change has tentatively introduced soil and carbon sequestration into its workings, via 4 pour 1000. However the role of particular agronomic practices involving livestock is under special scrutiny. Does livestock release more than it sequesters, or does the farming model matter? What about deep carbon storage? And how will policy makers work with new research and 4p1000? […]
Sebastian Lakner examines what the new German coalition government has in store for agricultural and rural policy – is it a coherent document, or simply all things to all people? […]
Evaggelos Vallianatos entered the Office of Pesticide Programs of the US Environmental Protection Agency in May 1979. He learned a lot. Here he shares with us some of that wisdom, while also introducing the Anna Feigenbaum book Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today. […]
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