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The lack of water and extreme temperatures are reducing harvests of maize, cereals, fruit, grapes and olives, while the shortage of pastures and fodder is driving up costs for livestock farms.
France has mobilised more than €1 billion to assist farms affected by a summer marked by successive heatwaves, exceptional drought and numerous wildfires.
The citrus import season is once again straining the European sector, which is watching with concern as detections of quarantine pests multiply in shipments from third countries, despite the commitments and protocols required by the EU.
Agricultural organizations and cooperatives are calling for food production to be considered a strategic objective of the European Union, and they warn of the consequences of integrating agricultural policy into national plans that will merge different EU budget lines.
The European Commission plans to carry out 58 on-site inspections in countries exporting agri-food products to the EU market, 107% more than in 2025.
Germany remains the leading destination, followed by France and the United Kingdom, in a first half marked by lower volumes and higher export value
In nominal terms, the EU’s value of sold production rose from €5 869 billion in 2024 to €6 090 billion in 2025.
In 2023, about 43% of EU farms reported having internet access. Some northern and central European countries such as Denmark, Germany, Slovakia, Latvia, Czechia, and Austria, had rates above 90%.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is launching a two-day meeting on Tuesday, 18 August, to address the financing gap constraining the transformation of agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Spain’s fruit and vegetable market is becoming increasingly dependent on supplies from outside the European Union.
The recovery in shipments in July has not prevented the world’s largest supplier from posting a 13.1% decline in its export revenue.
The new European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation begins to apply on August 12.
Argentina’s agri-food exports to the European Union reached $2.5 billion in the first half of 2026, up 30% from a year earlier.
So far this year, the TRACES platform has detected a total of 15 consignments bound for the EU affected by this disease.
Brussels proposes integrating agricultural support into a single national plan, concentrating payments on professional farmers, and replacing the current eco-schemes with more flexible environmental incentives.
The Spanish agricultural sector accounts for 8.3% of new Social Security affiliates resulting from the extraordinary regularization of immigrants.
