Organic food and farming - Driving force towards paradigm change for our...
The promotion of organic food and farming has been one of the European Greens’ core values since entering the European Parliament in 1984.
View ArticleProspects for the EU dairy sector - Greens call for stronger proposals to...
The EU's milk quota regime ended on 31 March 2015 after 30 years of production limits for milk farmers and dairy processing industries.
View ArticleJoin the Food Revolution Newsletter - Issue n°16 November 2015
GREEN INSIGHT INTO EU FOOD POLICY Novel Foods: Greens won't mess with citizens' health and freedom of choice Animal Welfare: A weak vote showing little appetite for improvement of animals' rights....
View ArticleWorld soil day - What's next after the UN year of Soils?
Soil is a living ecosystem. Soil health has a direct impact on human health, farmers work and climate change. But soil is under threat today. We lose an estimated 24 billion tons of fertile soil each...
View ArticleJoin the Food Revolution Newsletter - Issue n°16 January 2016
On 20th January, the European Parliament, following the initiative by Greens/EFA MEP Keith Taylor, voted to reject draft EU rules on baby food, which would have allowed baby foods to contain far higher...
View ArticleSeven Reasons To Ban Glyphosate - It's Time To Stand Up To Monsanto!
What is glyphosate, and why should you be worried about it? Glyphosate is a chemical used in herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup and recently became the most used agricultural chemical of all time....
View ArticleGlyphosate - extending its authorisation is anti-democratic and goes against...
The European Parliament will tomorrow vote a non-binding resolution opposing the renewal of the license for the controversial weedkiller glyphosate.
View ArticleNo privatisation of life - No patent on our tomatoes!
A few weeks ago a European-wide coalition of NGOs launched a mass opposition against a patent held by the Swiss agrochemical company Syngenta on tomatoes produced by conventional breeding.
View ArticleGood for business, bad for us - Why Bayer buying Monsanto is more than just...
German drugs and chemicals group Bayer has announced a $62 billion cash offer for the US company Monsanto, owner of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup and of the only GM plant currently authorised...
View ArticleEU funding for New Alliance ignores murky world of land-grabs and human...
On the face of it, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition looks like an extremely worthy project: encouraging private investment in African farming to help improve food production and reduce...
View ArticleInterview of Olivier de Schutter - Former UN special Rapporteur for the Right...
Interview of Olivier de Schutter former UN special Rapporteur for the Right to Food, co-chairs the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food
View ArticleDon’t let neoliberal ideology undermine farmers’ existence - Interview with...
Interview with Jan Slomp, President of the Canadian National Farmers’ Union
View ArticleJoin the Food Revolution Newsletter - Issue n°21 September 2016
On Thursday 8th September, the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament examined three petitions opposing the use of the systemic herbicide glyphosate.
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