Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy

A simplified balance sheet to estimate apparent consumption of apples, crops, dairy products, meat, milk, olive oil, oranges and wine, at Member State level. It...

Review of market applications of new genomic techniques (NGTs). For the purposes of this study, NGTs are defined as ‘techniques that are able to alter the genetic material of an organism, developed...

Trade-off analysis (TOA) is central to policy and decision-making aimed at promoting sustainable agricultural landscapes. Yet, a generic methodological framework to assess trade-offs in agriculture is absent, largely...

The 25th edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture", published by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and IFOAM – Organics International, offers a comprehensive review of recent...

This report answers the commitment made in the rural vision Communication to ‘take stock of what actions have been carried out’ and provide ‘a set of reflections on possible...

This study investigates the potential effects of 10 upcoming free trade agreements (FTAs) under the current EU trade agenda. It quantifies the cumulative sectoral impacts...

Tillage is one of the agricultural management practices that significantly impacts agroecosystems, crop production, and the environment. Conventional tillage (CT) practices alter the soil environment and induce organic...

The VALPRO Path project aims to shed light on the need to boost and diversify the production of plant-based protein in Europe. This is for a range of reasons including food security, human nutrition...

The EU agricultural outlook, published once a year, presents the outlook for major EU agricultural markets until 2035. It is based on a set of assumptions regarding macroeconomic...

By mapping the potential interactions between two conceptual frameworks of agroecology (HLPE 2019) and food systems (David-Benz et al. 2022), and by analysing the scientific literature focusing...