Alternative proteins are of increasing interest in terms of their potential to improve food security and reduce the environmental impacts of food and feed production. This study assesses the current...
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Research for the AGRI Committee - The dependency of the EU’s food system on inputs and their sources
This study analyses the vulnerabilities of the EU food system regarding inputs, describing the tools to secure those inputs and make the EU less dependent on foreign suppliers. It...
Highlights: The global livestock sector contributes a significant share to anthropogenic GHG emissions, but it can also deliver a significant share of the necessary mitigation effort. The need...
The EU Farm to Fork Strategy has sparked a debate about the future of European agriculture. We used the GRAFS accounting methodology to describe the agri-food system of Europe...
In 2005 and 2010, the European Commission (EC) published two subsequent ‘Road Maps’ to provide options for relaxation of the bans on the application of animal proteins in feed. Since then, the food...
Recent studies have estimated the potential yield impacts of pesticide reductions in the European Union. While these estimates guide policy design, they are often...
Land-use-driven biodiversity impacts of diets—a comparison of two assessment methods in a Finnish case study
Agricultural land use and land-use change, especially from forests to agricultural land, to satisfy growing demand for food and feed, is a major cause of global biodiversity loss. International...
The study builds on an extensive literature review, a survey, and in-depth interviews to investigate the potential of 10 microalgae and macroalgae production systems in contributing to animal feed requirements in the EU...
Explore the supply and use of agricultural, forestry and fisheries biomass in the EU.
The current EU legislation on GMOs and food and feed containing GMOs requires analytical testing to support traceability of these products on the market. Here the European Network of GMO...