Policymakers agree that agriculture will play a crucial role in addressing the planet’s most pressing challenges – whether on food production, health or the preservation of the environment. But transforming the dominant agricultural model could be the greatest challenge of all.
In this Special Report, euractiv.com looks at how farmers around the globe are rising to the multi-faceted challenge, framed in the United Nations’ post-2015 global development agenda, and supported by Europe’s own development policy.
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Fresh EU-US trade spat brewing over new plant breeding techniques
EXCLUSIVE / After Europe's decision to keep its door shut to GMOs, the European Commission is trying its best to avoid opening a new trade row with the United States over how to regulate so-called 'new plant breeding techniques' (NPBTs).
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Potocnik: Farmers and consumers ‘equally responsible’ for agricultural transformation
Every food producer should help make agriculture sustainable, Janez Potočnik told EURACTIV.com.
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Africa’s farming potential hinges on infrastructure boost
Africa’s huge agricultural potential holds the promise of covering much of the planet’s nutrition needs. But the continent is hampered by lack of infrastructure and intricate local politics.
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UN chief: Food chain shows peoples’ fate ‘interdependent’
Humankind needs to take a more collaborative approach to agriculture in order to sustain its future nutrition needs, while at the same time minimising environmental harm to the planet, global leaders and luminaries have warned.
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Agriculture holds key to UN Sustainable Development Goals
Agriculture will play a crucial role in addressing the planet’s future needs – whether on food production, health or the preservation of the environment. But transforming the dominant agricultural model could be the greatest challenge of all.