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Viewpoint: Who is behind reactionary European movement to hobble lab grown meat revolution?
Vienna, Paris and Rome, along with nine other EU countries, are set to argue that meat grown in a laboratory ...
After EU Environment Committee vote approving relaxed crop gene editing rules, full European Parliament vote looms in 10 days
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) approved on January 24 new rules for new genomic techniques (NGTs). The plenary will ...
How Russia is weaponizing food and fertilizer
Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency ...
German Liberals break from Green Party, advocate for anti-biotechnology policy rethink as coalition totters
The Greens, a partner in Germany’s three-party coalition, must tear down internal walls to overcome the tug-of-war over genetic engineering ...
Viewpoint: Using selective chemistry — Burdensome EU regulations prevent introduction of lower-impact agricultural pest control products
The EU has outlined its ambition to slash in half the use and risk of chemical pesticides in its flagship ...
Viewpoint: Do you really want a sustainable food system revolution? Let’s expand the definition of regenerative ag to include all the tools in the farmer’s toolbox
Climate change and land and nature lost to settlement and agriculture were not important topics then. When students of today ...
With Germany voicing opposition to loosening crop gene editing rules, Europe now expected to table deregulation talks
The European Commission is expected to table proposals for loosening EU rules on gene editing, more specifically, new genomic techniques ...
Viewpoint: ‘We need more agricultural land than is available’ — Here’s why organic agriculture cannot address biodiversity and sustainability
For Germany and the EU, boosting organic farming is a political priority and both have set targets for 2030: The ...
German Green ministers split on relaxing rules on gene editing crops to meet sustainability challenges
With the Greens leading both the German agriculture and environment ministries, many expect the country to stand against the Commission’s ...
‘Shockwaves in the global food chain’: Spain, Poland, Hungary beg European Commission for impact assessment on Farm to Fork plan pesticide cutbacks in face of Ukrainian invasion
EU member states have called for a new impact assessment on the European Commission’s proposal to slash the use and ...
Ukrainian war and global food market disruptions pit anti-synthetic fertilizer Greens against farmers and scientists
The latest interruptions of Russian gas flows to Europe have reignited debates on fertiliser import tariffs, but farmers and industry ...
Reversing course in the face of heatwaves and drought, Italian MPs endorse agricultural genetic engineering to respond to climate change
Italian lawmakers have expressed support for the use of genetic modification techniques in agriculture to achieve more resilient crop varieties ...
Fate of glyphosate approval in Europe? Contentious stakeholder feedback delays recommendations till mid 2023
Due to an unprecedented flood of stakeholder input, relevant EU agencies announced their risk assessment on glyphosate will only come ...
Future of Farm to Fork strategy under scrutiny as Europe confronts food security threats sparked by invasion of Ukraine
The European Commission stood firm in its resolve to forge ahead with the EU’s sustainable food goals in the first ...
Battle royale in Europe over agricultural genetics
In an op-ed published in October, French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie said it is now necessary to launch the “third ...
Biotechnology key to protecting crops from pests, diseases, and climate change, European Commission says — but EU GMO regulation lags
New genomic techniques (NGTs) have received the backing of the European Commission in a strategy paper, while NGOs promise an ...
Here’s how Europe plans to cut agriculture carbon emissions
A new carbon removal approach in agriculture will contribute to stepping up Europe’s climate ambition, the European Commission reiterated at ...
Eating insects: Will the approval by the EU of beetle larvae for human consumption open doors for sustainable, bug-based snacks?
The first EU wide approval of insects for human consumption was granted on [May 3]... The decision came after a positive ...
Overwhelming majority of Europeans support compulsory labeling of GM-derived food, claims study commissioned by EU Green group
[A] report, commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and carried out by the polling organisation Ipsos, surveyed ...
Europe could become an ‘agricultural museum’ unless it embraces crop gene editing, officials warn
Speaking during the AGRI Committee debate, right-wing MEP Mazaly Aguilar raised a concern that, by imposing new restrictions on the ...
French court upholds sugar beet grower exemption from neonicotinoids insecticide ban
Condemned as "bee killers," [neonicotinoid pesticides] have been officially banned in France since 2018. However, faced with the jaundice crisis ...
UK launches consultation that could roll back restrictive CRISPR crop rules, unlock ‘substantial benefits’
In one of its first post-Brexit moves, England has launched a consultation on gene editing in a bid to unlock ...
EU needs new guidelines to evaluate environmental impact of gene-drive mosquitoes, food safety officials say
After being mandated by the European Commission, [European Food Safety Authority's] experts on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) published the scientific ...
European countries can ban pesticides even if approved by EU, continent’s highest court rules
Europe’s highest court [European Court of Justice, ECJ] has concluded that member states have the right to ban pesticides even ...
Europe’s pro-organic ‘green deal’ threatens US farmers who sustainably grow GM crops, USDA claims
Washington could complain to the World Trade Organization if the European Union goes ahead with a farming strategy that it ...
France poised to suspend neonics pesticide ban to help farmers, over objections from Greenpeace
French lawmakers on Tuesday (6 October) approved a draft bill allowing sugar beet growers to use pesticides that are banned ...
Europe approves imports of new GM herbicide-resistant soy, despite objections from Green Party, organic advocates
The genetically modified (GM) soybean, the XtendFlex, was approved after a comprehensive authorization procedure, including a scientific assessment by the ...
Gene-editing amendment to UK agriculture bill withdrawn, delaying farmer access to CRISPR crops
An amendment tabled in the new UK agriculture bill, designed to allow access to new gene-editing technology, has been withdrawn ...