THE US LAUNCHES A THIRD LAYER OF COVID-19 SUPPORT TO AGRICULTURE
Readers might think that they have already read about this, but the fact is that in the US a new layer of support to help agriculture cope with the Covid-19 crisis was launched this week. This support package is the third since the beginning of the crisis, so yes you have read about increased support […]
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NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES: A TWO-SPEED EUROPE
While in Italy and in France, the scientific community is calling on their governments to ease the regulation on plants derived from new genome techniques and that times are ready to move forward, in England the Parliament has approved legislation that ease the acceptance of gene-editing field trials, and Kenya adopts guidelines on genome-editing techniques […]
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ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE
FICHE ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE The EU has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. Agriculture and agro-forestry have an important role to play to sequester and store carbon, and there is scope to reduce emissions using more efficient and sustainable production methods. Also reducing water pollution, soil erosion and preserving […]
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