foodsecurity
The European Commission’s powerful health department, DG SANTE, is expected to lose major powers over food safety, according to a draft seen by Euronews. With a fresh Commission term set to start in November, the EU executive is looking at how to distribute policy priorities across its many constituent directorates-general. If the draft seen by Euronews is confirmed, DG SANTE will hand over its powers on pesticide approval, animal welfare, animal and plant health, plant varieties, and new genomic techniques to the Commission's farming department, DG AGRI. SANTE would lose other food safety iss...
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Soil protection is on track to be on an equal footing with air and water as environment ministers reached on Monday (June 17) a draft legal compromise to restore soils in the EU. The EU executive tabled the soil monitoring law in July 2023, to increase the “limited knowledge” about the condition of soils, proposing to achieve healthy soils by 2050, with data showing more than half (60%) of the bloc's soils are in poor condition, undermining food production and biodiversity. But member states agreed instead to an “aspirational” long-term goal “not imposing an obligation” to achieve such goal “n...
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Two men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's agricultural diversity will be honoured as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates. Cary Fowler, the US special envoy for Global Food Security, and Geoffrey Hawtin, an agricultural scientist from the UK and executive board member at the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will be awarded the annual prize and split a $500,000 (€464,000) award. Secretary of State Antony Blinken lauded the men for their “critical role in preserving crop diversity" at seed banks around the world. They also helped ideate a global s...
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Australia’s weather bureau has said the El Niño weather event has now ended as temperatures appear to have “cooled substantially” in the last week. The naturally occurring phenomenon began in June last year bringing warmer waters to the surface of the Pacific Ocean. March was the tenth month in a row where the world set a new monthly record for heat, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. While climate scientists attribute most of the heat to human-caused climate change, they say the consecutive records aren’t exactly surprising given the strong El Niño conditions. Temperatur...
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DA NANG, VIETNAM, Aug 15, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - The 3rd Global Food Security & Sustainability Summit 2023 is delighted to announce its upcoming event. As a gathering of the most influential minds in food security and sustainability, the summit is set to take place on the 29th of August, 2023 in Danang, Vietnam. This year's theme, "Innovating for Sustainability: The Future of Agriculture and the Food System", aims to highlight the importance of sustainable innovation in shaping the future of agriculture and the overall food system. The summit will provide a platform for leading experts and st...
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