Agrifood Brief

Latest Episodes…

1. 11 - COVID-19 fallout, seasonal workers, CAP contingency plan

   EU agriculture ministers have called for further measures to address the difficulties faced by the agri-food sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe’s farming sector could face a dramatic shortfall in workers, and lawmakers in the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to prepare a strategy anticipating ...

   03/26/2020

2. 10 - F2F delayed, CAP deadline, COVID-19

   The launch of the new EU food policy will be delayed by another month, EU countries have now been offered the option to extend the deadline to submit applications for CAP payments and food supply chain in Germany functions despite COVID-19.  ...

   03/19/2020

3. 9 - F2F Leak, Circular Economy Plan, COVID-19

   This week: The latest leaked draft of the Farm to Fork strategy features several notable changes from the previous version, how the new circular economy action plan will work alongside the Farm to Fork strategy and EFSA's conclusion that there is currently “no evidence that food is a likely source or ...

   03/12/2020

4. 8 - Pesticide reduction, F2F Leak and digital farming

   This week: the leaked draft of the Farm to Fork strategy says that it will base its mandatory pesticide reduction targets on the controversial Harmonised Risk Indicator 1 and that it envisages setting five targets in the flagship new food policy and EURACTIV takes a look at the concerns surrounding ...

   03/06/2020

5. 7 - Plant-based diets, gene editing & SMEs, farmers protests

   This week: Plant-based diets and reducingmeat conusmption in the Farm to Fork strategy, how dergulating gene editing will affect SMEs and young farmers protests in Brussels for fairer CAP funding  ...

   02/27/2020