We are facing the emergence of a new food crisis. From fertilisers to fuel for agricultural machinery, the raw and subsidiary materials that feed the global agricultural sector are proving to be in short supply. How i...
It’s been 7 years since 196 countries worldwide signed the Paris Agreement and we’re still aiming at a limit temperature increase of 1,5ºC above pre-industrial levels. But how close are we to reach that goal ? And wha...
Those who live on the Iberian Peninsula can notice the change in rainfall distribution, and even in its reduction in volume. Portugal has most of its continent with average annual rainfall rates of less than 600 milli...
Earlier this month, between 2 and 4 February, part of the Food4Sustainability team headed to Spain, in the framework of the Erasmus+ TransFarmers project, in order to visit and meet, in person, the AlVelAl team and so...
Arrebita Idanha Bio brought together thousands of participants and more than 30 chefs in the villages of Idanha-a-Velha and Penha Garcia. The second edition of the festival took place on October 2nd and 3rd, was atten...
One of the industries that is significantly impacted year after year by climate change is the wine industry. This impact derives from different sources comprising vine climate adaptation, impact of temperature in the...
Since the beginning of this century, a wide range of advanced digital technologies have been intensively used and daily updated, generating a massive amount of data ready to be analysed. In detail, large sets of heter...
It is impossible to deny the impact of cattle production on the emission of greenhouse gases. According to the most recent data available, worldwide, cattle production is responsible for about 78% of total GHG emissio...
Assumed as one of the major goals of the Portuguese presidency of the council of the European union, it was after 3 years of negotiation that finally, at the end of last June, the agreement for the reform of the Commo...
Did you know that the total EU pesticide sales volume decreased about 26 thousand tonnes in 2019, reaching its lowest level since 2011? Denmark was considered the country responsible for the major decrease, registerin...
Since glyphosate commercialization began in 1974, this has become the main component of herbicides, being applied in various sectors, as agriculture, industry, and private households. However, these components are har...
"The world has just concluded the hottest decade on record", according to the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy . So, there is a need to adopt smarter, community- and ecosystem-based systems to help reverse this problem,...
EIT Climate-KIC , a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) that works to accelerate the transition to a carbon-zero and climate-resilient society, funded a video game - Change Game \- that develops climate awareness...
Climate change and global warming is a topic already under wide discussion and greenhouse gases play an important role in this issue. Although this is a natural phenomenon, human activities are responsible for almost...
The targets set by the European Union provide that by 2030 countries should have 25% of their utilised agricultural area (UAA) under organic production . This leads to the implementation of urgent and exceptional meas...
PeakBridge , an agri-food technology venture capital business, and EIT Food , the largest agri-food innovation ecosystem of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), have launched a seed fund targeted...
