Around 40 per cent of the EU’s budget goes on agriculture but a growing number of farmers are struggling. At the same time food has never been so popular or topical whether it’s cooking, organic or obesity issues.
Food and agriculture
Feeding a continent
EU court: Food produce obtained by mutagenesis is bound by GM rules
Gene editing technologies should be largely exempted from EU laws on GM food, although individual states can regulate them if they choose, the European court’s advocate general has said.
The need to ditch our addiction to plastic
Yet even back in Europe there remain hurdles to overcome when it comes to reducing the mountains of waste.
EU proposes slimmer post-Brexit agricultural subsidy programme
The European Commission presents its plans of agricultural subsidies under the 2021-2027 EU budget.
EU votes for near-total ban on bee-killing pesticides
EU countries have voted for a near-total ban on insecticides blamed for killing off bee populations, in what campaigners called a "beacon of hope" for the winged insects.
EU proposes crackdown on unfair trading practices of food products
The European Commission want to ban unfair trade practices in wholesale food markets
UK fishermen fear Brexit betrayal with one year to go
On the dockside in Brixham, a fishing port in southwest England, the fear is that Britain's departure from the EU may prove a false dawn for hopes of taking back control.