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Tropical deforestation for land conversion to agriculture is a known problem. Through a novel method which maps changes in biodiversity in production areas, researchers have highlighted the impacts...

By exploiting the full potential of the high-quality data delivered by the Copernicus Sentinel satellites service providers and developers have developed various products and services with the aim of supporting the potato...

To succeed, cultivars must be selected to match local conditions. Researchers with the EU-funded DiverIMPACTS project worked with farmers to develop tailored diversification strategies.

Sustainable biofuels are an important tool for the decarbonisation of transport. This is especially true in aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty sectors with limited short-term alternatives. Their use by conventional transport...

Highlights: The EU’s agri-food trade model revolves around importing low-value raw products, such as cocoa, fruits and soybeans, and exporting high-value ones like wine...

Total utilised agricultural area (UAA) is projected to slightly decline over the outlook period, to 160.5 million hectares in 2031. This reduction is due to lower yields making...

Data on area, harvested production, yield, and humidity of crops by country and species expressed in thousand of hectares, thousand of tonnes, kg per hectare and %, respectively. At present Eurostat...

Data on organic crop production from fully converted areas by crop expressed in tonnes. Farming is considered to be organic if it complies with "Council Regulation (EC)...

Long timeseries of Earth observation data for the characterization of agricultural crops across large scales are of high interest to crop modelers, scientists, and decision makers in the fields...

In order to contribute to the EU's ambitions to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, different technological and management options are being analysed. Within the agricultural sector...