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
Edible insects move closer to European plates
The EU's food watchdog has paved the way for diners across Europe to tuck into insects as it gave safety approval for human consumption of dried yellow mealworm
EU suppliers race food to UK ahead of Brexit deadline
In the port of Zeebrugge, robot lift-trucks are working flat out to stockpile and ship Europe's biggest brands to UK supermarkets before the New Year Brexit deadline heralds new trade barriers
Shortages, jams and shutdowns: UK readies for Brexit ‘no-deal’ chaos
Food shortages, tailbacks and congested ports: as talks with Brussels remain unresolved three weeks before leaving the EU single market, the UK is preparing for a chaotic "no-deal"
EU and UK agree Brexit scheme to ease N. Ireland trade
The UK and the European Union have agreed a scheme to ease the flow of goods between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland after Brexit, London says
Bruges shelters canal swans after bird flu outbreaks across Europe
The medieval Belgian city of Bruges has rounded up swans to shelter them from the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the virus in France, Denmark and the Netherlands
Diet trends to see 4 bn people overweight by 2050: study
More than four billion people could be overweight by 2050, with 1.5 billion of them obese, if the current global dietary trend towards processed foods continues, a new study predicts