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January 7, 2020
A Swiss investment firm UBS estimates that the 4.6 billion dollars plant-based protein and meat market in 2018 will reach 85 billion dollars by 2030 . The same source adds that the plant-based milk market could reach 37.5 billion dollars for the 2025’s, while the improving health and welfare of society is the main driver… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
July 22, 2019
To boost its development cooperation and to fill funding gaps, the European Union is increasingly resorting to “blending”. While using tax payer-funded aid to encourage the engagement of private companies and investors in development can be helpful in certain cases, new Oxfam research has confirmed that private money is not a magical tool to… » read more
Posted by Oxfam's EU Advocacy office in Brussels
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Agriculture & Food, Aid Effectiveness, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020, food, Sustainable Dev. |
Morocco continues to move forward and into the future. With the development of Tanger Med Port, Morocco is now on center stage of the international maritime scene as one of the best connected ports in the world. It has risen from the 83rd to the 17th rank worldwide, according to the United Nations Conference for… » read more
Posted by Fragmented Collisions
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Development Policy, EurActiv.com, Transport |
May 17, 2019
Auteur: Daniel PEYRAUBE (Président CEPM) S’il est un milieu qui doit être convaincu de l’importance du projet européen, c’est bien l’agriculture qui constitue via la PAC la seule politique intégrée de l’Union. Le contexte particulièrement incertain (Brexit, montée des questions identitaires, budget, …) et les peurs multiples (terrorisme, immigration, changement climatique, …) n’y changent… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
Author: Daniel Peyraube (CEPM President) If there is one sector that should be convinced of the importance of the European project, it is agriculture. Thanks to the CAP, agriculture is the only ‘integrated’ policy of the Union. The current context of great uncertainty (Brexit, questions of identity, budget) and multiple fears (terrorism, immigration, climate… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
December 7, 2018
It does not happen so often that an editorialist begins his piece by requesting readers, first of all, to read the articles on the following pages. Such is the case here! The articles published on pages 2 and 3 of this Newsletter are very illuminating in exposing the bureaucratic impasse the EU finds itself in.… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
November 9, 2018
In many European countries the food market is highly concentrated and dominated by a small number of supermarket companies. Often, products have made long journeys before being sold and have not been produced nearby. Is this system healthy for consumers? Is it economic for producers? And how do these production patterns affect the environment? Lately,… » read more
Posted by DIESIS
October 30, 2018
In this article I want to take a really broad look at how continuous innovation in the starch industry is contributing significantly to tackling some of the biggest challenges in sustainable agriculture and bioeconomy in Europe. Guest blog post by Jamie Fortescue, Managing Director at Starch Europe. The planet faces more and more environmental pressure.… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
July 25, 2018
Author: Vicky Marissen A task force of ‘common sense’ On 10 July, the report of the Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and ‘Doing Less More Efficiently’ was published. Set up at the end of 2017, the taskforce’s objective was to make recommendations on how better to apply the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, identify policy… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, industry, InfoSociety, lobbying, Sustainable Dev. |
Thanks to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, significant changes will be made to the national food legislation, including the regulation of providing information to consumers, in accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers. Adoption… » read more
June 25, 2018
New report shows why the planned EU ban on unfair trading practices is urgently needed Millions of women and men who produce our food are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, despite billion-dollar profits in the food industry, reveals a new report published by Oxfam today. The report, ‘Ripe for Change’, also assesses… » read more
Posted by Oxfam's EU Advocacy office in Brussels
Guest blog post by Garlich von Essen, Secretary General, European Seed Association (ESA) and Petra Jorasch, Manager Plant Breeding & Innovation Advocacy, European Seed Association (ESA) The Advocate General takes a differentiated view when assessing the regulatory status of plants resulting from new breeding methods. The latest plant breeding methods like genome editing can help… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers |
June 7, 2018
The report on the Drinking Water Directive is being debated in the European Parliament. The proposal must focus on consumer health protection. Dr Claudia Castell-Exner is the vice-president of EurEau, the association of Europe’s drinking water and waste water service operators. Today, the ENVI committee of the European Parliament is discussing the report on the… » read more
Posted by EurEau
May 29, 2018
All economic activities related to research, development, production, trade and consumption of plants, animals and all other living things are defined as “bioeconomy”. Scientifically bioeconomy aims at producing economical gains by generating surplus values using new methods such as biotechnology with the targeted profits of improved health, increased productivity and higher quality in agricultural and… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
April 23, 2018
There is a kind of inevitability when the Commission uses its right of legislative and regulatory initiative. The more the process is framed by impact assessments, consultations and scientific opinions, the more the EU moves towards a subjective approach to law and regulation. Today, it is clichés, conventional wisdom and public opinion that rules in… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, commission, EU Commission, glyphosate |
