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Tag: Agriculture

New green farm lobby digs into Brussels, setting up turf war with organics

14/06/2025 - Leave a Comment

Popular in the US, where the organic food market has struggled to gain traction, regenerative farming is now gaining momentum in Europe too. A farmer-led lobby called the European Alliance …

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Denmark sets first carbon tax on agriculture

26/06/2024 - Leave a Comment

The Danish government will introduce Europe’s first carbon tax on agriculture, after a five-month negotiation with farming and conservation groups ended in a historic agreement on Monday night. From 2030 farmers will …

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Cocoa price surge in global market lures Colombian farmers away from coca cultivation

05/04/2024 - Leave a Comment

“Coca leaf prices are down and cocoa prices are up.” It’s as simple as that, says cocoa farmer Óscar Gómez, who close to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated …

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EU discord over Ukraine free trade spells trouble for Kyiv’s accession hopes

29/03/2024 - Leave a Comment

A squabble among EU countries over whether to grant Ukraine’s vast farming sector another year of emergency, no-strings-attached access to their markets could well be a taste of what’s to …

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Extreme heat drives up food prices. Just how bad will it get?

29/03/2024 - Leave a Comment

Sometimes climate change appears where you least expect it — like the grocery store. Food prices have climbed 25 percent over the past four years, and Americans have been shocked by the …

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Healthy, wealthy and wise

26/03/202402/01/2025 - Leave a Comment

Sarah McKinley beats the drum for Community Wealth Building. As I write, 1,200 farmers and their tractors have occupied the centre of Brussels where I live. Their synchronised horn blasts …

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German budget blocked again, leaving subsidy feud with farmers unresolved

02/02/2024 - Leave a Comment

Germany’s largest opposition party, the conservative CDU, blocked a decisive vote on parts of the annual budget scheduled for Friday (2 February), leaving unresolved the feud over agricultural subsidies that …

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Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up

09/12/2023 - Leave a Comment

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Her parents were farmworkers, and despite spending …

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German farmers: Ukraine membership would spell end of EU farming system

18/11/202318/11/2023 - Leave a Comment

Following last week’s recommendation by the European Commission to open formal accession talks with Ukraine, Joachim Rukwied, the president of the German Farmers’ Association (DBV), warned of its consequences on the …

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Rice crops are being threatened by El Nino after grain supplies were disrupted by the war in Ukraine

14/07/2023 - Leave a Comment

NEW DELHI (AP) — Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world …

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