Agrifood Brief

Latest Episodes…

1. Final CAP vote, soil strategy, AMR

   This week, EURACTIV talks about what to expect from the final CAP vote in Strasbourg next week, we take a look at the EU's recently unveiled soil strategy, including comments from Renew Europe's Martin Hojsík, and we hear from the European Food Safety Agency's Marta Hugas about the upcoming week ...

   11/19/2021

2. Von der Flyen, COP out, unfair trade practices

   This week, EURACTIV looks at whether the COP26 summit was a 'cop' out on agriculture, we bring you the latest on the transposition of the unfair trade practices (UTPs) directive int he EU and hear from the rapporteur on the UTP file, Paolo de Castro, and we explore the new ...

   11/05/2021

3. Farm to Fork report vote, challenges of organic farming

   This week, EURACTIV discusses the outcome of the European Parliaments vote on their own initiative report on the Farm to Fork strategy, and we speak with Diana Lenzi, President of young farmers' association CEJA, about her experience in converting her family farm to organic, including her motivations for doing so and ...

   10/22/2021

4. JRC report delay, 2022 agenda, water use

   This week, EURACTIV hears reactions from MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen and rapporteur Herbert Dorfmann to the news that the European Commission chose to delay on the publication of their controversial JRC report on the impacts of the Farm to Fork strategy for half a year.  We take a look at a leaked ...

   10/08/2021

5. Organic day, impact assessment, UN food summit

   This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team explores the controversy surrounding the UN’s food systems summit with the help of IPES-Food’s Nick Jacobs and Attila Szocs of small farmers association European Coordination Via Campesina, the Commission gets in touch with its hippy side on the Autumn equinox to celebrate the EU’s new ...

   09/27/2021