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75 percent of farmers are already impacted by climate change or worried about its impacts, and 71 percent of them report reduced yields as a
Within the framework of its General Assembly, AREFLH organised on 23 March a public conference on the new CAP and the European regulation on packaging,
Eurocastanea, the European chestnut network brought online nearly 70 operators from the chestnut sectors: producers, APOs and marketers from 8 countries. Participants from Austria, Spain,
The initiative will reward those agrifood business strategies launched for the fight against climate change.
The acting Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, defended on Monday, during COP 25, Spain’s commitment to achieve sustainable agriculture and food, avoiding waste.
Climate change is the main challenge facing the agricultural sector today. In the agrarian organization UPA are aware of this and that is why they are focusing all their efforts on helping farmers and ranchers to adapt their farms to this new situation and thus reduce their impact on the sector. These efforts are being channeled into a macroproject called InfoAdaptaAgri that will be presented to the Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, on June 6th. The act will be open to all interested persons, it is simply necessary to send an inscription in advance.
Tradecorp has just launched two new products aimed at pip fruit crops that seek to provide protection against pathogens, protecting the tree and the environment. The new fungicide Spotter® WG is intended to prevent mottling in fruit trees of pip, apple tree and pear tree. In addition this product has a secondary action especially effective against Stemphylium and Oidium
MAPAMA has hosted the conference ‘Challenges of agricultural insurance: climate change and risk management’, organized by the Council of Associations of Agricultural Technical Engineers and Cajamar Caja Rural. In it, the public and private actors that make up the system, have provided their views on the challenges that the agricultural insurance system must face in the face of different threats, with special emphasis on climate change, its risks and also its opportunities.
The application of the Internet of Things (Internet of Things) is getting stronger and stronger in agriculture. It is a segment for which the Bosch group, a global provider of technology and services, estimates a market potential of one billion euros worldwide. According to these forecasts, Bosch has presented in Spain, in the latest edition of the International Fair of Agricultural Machinery of Zaragoza (FIMA), its solution of precision agriculture Bosch Field Monitoring, already installed in crops such as the vineyard, citrus, the red fruits, the tomato and the olive grove. Through this tool, a greater monitoring and control of crops is sought to optimize resources, a growing need, especially in the current context of extreme situations caused by drought and frost, as a result of climate change.
After two years experimenting in real crops subjected to situations of environmental stress, such as drought, high temperatures or salinity, Tradecorp, a company specializing in nutrition and crop protection, offers Phylgreen, its biostimulant based on seaweed extracts, a highly effective solution in managing the negative effects of environmental factors on agricultural yields. Precisely, in the current context of climate change, environmental stress is emerging as one of the great challenges of today’s agriculture. The results of the studies and tests carried out with this innovative product have been presented to the sector in two events held on January 24th and 25th in Seville and Valencia, respectively.
The agricultural activity is the origin of 11% of greenhouse gas emissions … compared to 70% that represents energy activity … Some figures that show that agriculture is not the main catalyst for climate change; In fact, it is one of the sectors most interested in reversing this process, since it is among the most affected by it. The Agricultural Forum “Agriculture and Climate Change”, held on January 19 in Seville by the Cajasol Foundation has served as a debate framework for these and other issues, such as the importance that agricultural activity has traditionally had as a barrier against desertification of areas , with environmental crops such as the olive grove, or ecosystems such as the Dehesa, in which the hand of man has been determining for its conservation.
The Union of Small Farmers (UPA) has urged the Government of Spain to adopt urgent measures against a drought that qualifies as “historic”. The shortage of rains since last autumn has led our country to an emergency situation that however, as denounced by the UPA agrarian organization, is “ignored” by the Government. Farmers and ranchers say they feel “abandoned and surprised” in the absence of a management plan for a crisis of great gravity.
The agricultural organization UPA has made a negative balance, both in production and in prices, of the current harvest, once this has become widespread throughout the national territory. Thus, and according to their calculations, the production of grapes has decreased by 20% as a result of bad climatology, a decline that in some territories has reached 60%. Although this bad situation is also suffered by other European competitors, in Spain winegrowers also have to deal with low prices. For this reason, the UPA has asked the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) to intensify controls of compliance with the Law of the food chain.
On 21th November has been presented, in the headquarters of the Andalusian Regional Council of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development (CAPDER), the 14th edition of the Symposium on Plant Protection which will take place on 25th, 26th and 27th of January of 2017 in Seville. Under the motto “Towards Change”, this event aims to offer the keys to adapt efficiently and effectively to the new scenario of agri-food production, marked by rigid community regulations regarding phytosanitary issues and new challenges and strategies derived from climate change.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment has presented the first report on the impact of climate change in the Spanish marine environment introduced by the Director General of the Spanish Office for Climate Change, Valvanera Ulargui, who stressed that the report “is intended provide a better understanding of our marine environment, especially rich and diverse, but vulnerable to climate change. “
European ministers of the areas of Environment and Transport analyze the future of transport in Europe and technological innovation as an opportunity to improve the environment and energy efficiency of fuels and vehicles. The goal is to work together to achieve further reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in both sectors.
