- Relaxing green measures falls short as cereal production set to drop Despite the EU’s efforts to ramp up cereal production in the face of the Ukraine war by relaxing environmental rules, the area under cereal production has dropped below the five-year average and production is expected to decrease significantly.
- European Commission announces communication on fertilisers The European Commission will put forward a communication on fertilisers as part of efforts to tackle the disruption caused by the Ukraine war, but this still falls short of the EU-wide fertilisers strategy that stakeholders have been calling for.
- Commission refutes EU farmers’ plight over influx of Ukrainian grain Romanian grain producers warned that an influx of Ukrainian grain via the EU’s so-called ‘solidarity lanes’ is pushing them close to bankruptcy, but the European Commission insists this has no negative impact on the single market.
Agrifood Brief: The art of med-eat-ating
