Agrifood

Agrifood Podcast: New French agri minister, CAP on pause, EU Ombudsman
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team discusses the agenda for the upcoming meeting of EU agricultural ministers, which will be the first for France’s new agricultural minister, Marc Fesneau, who has a shiny new addition to his title, we talk about...
Agrifood Podcast: EU-Turkey agri-trade, Crop rotation debate, Deforestation Law
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you the latest on the first high-level meeting to strengthen the EU-Turkey agri-trade and we discuss our thoughts about what to expect from these talks. We also talk about the debate in Germany over...
Agrifood Podcast: Food security, EU organics plan, panicky markets
Welcome back to the EURACTIV agrifood podcast! After a short break, EURACTIV’s agrifood team are back and this week discussing all things food security, including the deepening cracks in the Commission over its response to the Ukraine war and the...
Agrifood Podcast: Janusz from the bloc, French elections, Groundhog Day
Feeling lost about everything that has happened this week in the agrifood world? No need to worry, EURACTIV’s agrifood team has your back. In this week’s podcast, we cover all the major events this week, from food security to the...
Agrifood Podcast: New pesticides proposal leak, food security & UN rapporteur
This week, EURACTIV is once again talking about the hot topic on everyone’s lips right now – food security – and we hear about how German companies are cashing in from the Belarus sanctions. We also discuss our thoughts about...
Agrifood Podcast: Pesticides proposal ‘postponement’, food affordability & security
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team discusses food accessibility, affordability and security in light of the Ukraine war, as well as the news that the European Commission decided to ‘postpone’ (although not in their words) the proposal of the sustainable use...
Week of ‘clashes’ and a very special guest
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you the latest about the current EU debate over holding off the implementation of the main sustainable EU farming policies, the Farm to Fork and the Biodiversity strategies, due to food safety concerns. We...
Agrifood Podcast: Food security & the Ukraine war
With the looming threat of the Ukraine war on the world's food supply, the key theme of the week has been food security.
Agrifood Podcast: Ukraine, food security, Salon de l’Agriculture
This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team gives you the run down on the impact of the war on Ukraine on the EU's agrifood sector and are joined by EURACTIV's Alice Taylor
Agrifood Podcast Special Edition: Knowledge (sharing) is power
In this special edition of the agrifood podcast, EURACTIV’s agrifood team takes a closer look at knowledge sharing in the agricultural sector
EU-Africa, Galentine’s day & an Italian farm trip
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team explores what the EU-Africa summit holds for the agrifood sector, we are joined by Brendan Coolsaet.
Pesticides week, AGRIFISH in Strasbourg, Slovakia’s CAP plan
This week is the week of pesticides, with both the leak of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive and new rules aimed at accelerating the approval process of biopesticides.
CAP plans timeline, the return of cintura negra, agri-statistics trilogue
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team brings you the latest about the timeline of the CAP national strategic plans approval, and we are joined by EURACTIV Germany’s Julia Dahm to talk about Commission’s plans
Denormandie’s ‘climate soldiers’, reciprocity, new agri vice chair
This week, EURACTIV France's Magdalena Pistorius joins EURACTIV's agrifood team to explain how French agricultural minister Julien Denormandie's debut speech under the French presidency was received in the European Parliament.
The mysterious cintura negra, Belarus embargo, animal transport vote
This week, EURACTIV's agrifood team talks about the first AGRIFISH Council under the French Presidency
Wolves, CAP plans, agri-trademarks
Welcome back! For our first podcast of 2022, EURACTIV’s agrifood news team brings you up to speed with where we’re at on the CAP national strategic plans
A look back, a look forward, & some humble bragging
In the last EURACTIV agrifood podcast of 2021, EURACTIV's agrifood news team takes a trip down memory lane to discuss the biggests moments and themes from 2021.
Live transport, gene editing, eco-schemes
This week, EURACTIV takes a look at the outcome of the vote on a report on live transport of animals, we explore the Commission's increasingly favorable stance to gene editing.
All things CAP & girl power
This week, EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote is joined by EURACTIV France’s Magdalena Pistorius to discuss how the final vote on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
Final CAP vote, soil strategy, AMR
This week, EURACTIV talks about what to expect from the final CAP vote in Strasbourg next week, we take a look at the EU's recently unveiled soil strategy.
Von der Flyen, COP out, unfair trade practices
This week, EURACTIV looks at whether the COP26 summit was a ‘cop’ out on agriculture, we bring you the latest on the transposition of the unfair trade practices (UTPs) directive int he EU and hear from the rapporteur on the...
Farm to Fork report vote, challenges of organic farming
This week, EURACTIV discusses the outcome of the European Parliaments vote on their own initiative report on the Farm to Fork strategy, and we speak with Diana Lenzi, President of young farmers' association CEJA.
JRC report delay, 2022 agenda, water use
This week, EURACTIV hears reactions from MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen and rapporteur Herbert Dorfmann to the news that the European Commission chose to delay on the publication of their controversial JRC report on the impacts of the Farm to Fork strategy.