TAG: Food security
UK’s Sunak tells farmers ‘I’ve got your back’ as Tories chase rural votes
BIRMINGHAM, England — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday told farmers “I’ve got your back,” as he announced a £220 million pre-election sweetener for rural voters disillusioned by his governing Tories.Sunak was speaking at the National Farmers’...
6 months ago
How the EU’s flagship nature law became an electoral punching bag
BRUSSELS — Election fever is slowly killing an embattled law seeking to rehabilitate the European Union’s ailing rivers, forests and seas. The Nature Restoration Law, once billed as a pillar of the European Green Deal, is a shadow of its former self after...
6 months ago
No more ‘business as usual’ in climate fight, UN boss warns ‘slipping’ politicians
LONDON — The world’s richest countries must end their “business as usual” approach to climate change or risk worsening global inequality, a leading United Nations diplomat warned Wednesday.Simon Stiell, executive secretary for U.N. Climate Change, told an...
6 months ago
‘Insane’ and ‘dangerous’ to give up on EU nature law, says Belgian minister
Ignore the prime minister, Belgium is committed to getting the EU's new nature rules approved. That's according to Brussels Environment and Climate Minister Alain Maron, who is responsible for steering talks among EU ministers on the highly controversial...
5 months ago
The EU says it wants food security. It really wants exports.
BRUSSELS — Food security: It’s the new slogan dominating European farming. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pinned it at the top of her agricultural agenda, promising European lawmakers that she would ensure it in her second term. Th...
2 months ago
EU’s first application for cultivated meat is for French foie gras
French food startup Gourmey has become the first company to apply for EU market access for cultivated or “lab-grown” meat, after it submitted an application for a cell-based duck product to the European Commission on Thursday.The novel food would be used...
2 months ago
Cypriot firm accused of profiting from EU potash sanctions against Belarus
Belarusian journalists have found that a Cypriot company linked with a former top aide to Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is profiting through inflated contracts related to new export routes of the fertilizer ingredient potash, which were set up as...
2 months ago
Europe’s southerners want Brussels to save them from climate change
ATHENS — They make an odd couple: a Harvard-educated Greek conservative and a Spanish eco-socialist.But Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Teresa Ribera are united by a concern which is driving a wedge between Europe’s climate-hit south and the less-affected north.T...
2 months ago
Organic Farming vs Food Security: India should focus on effective plant protection and sustainability
Cassandra in ancient Greece and Malthus in England at the turn of the 19th century both predicted doom. Cassandra foresaw unpleasant things, such as the fall of Troy and the death of King Agamemnon, of which the people did not want to hear. But her dire p...
1 month ago
Doubling India-Africa trade by 2030, more economic integration in focus: Govt
India will focus on doubling India-Africa trade by 2030 while also laying stress on more economic integration, government representatives said at the India Africa Business Conclave organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi on Augus...
1 month ago
Europe’s soil emergency
BRUSSELS — Extreme weather has made 2024 a ruinous year for European farmers. Charged by climate change, a savage cycle of droughts and floods, winter heat waves and late frosts has devastated agricultural areas. In recent months, cows died of thirst in S...
2 weeks ago