To mitigate costs for farmers, the EU Commission is considering tariff exemptions for fertilizer imports. This approach is shortsighted in two respects, writes Marco Fleischmann from the German Agricultural Industry Association (IVA).
Von Marco Fleischmann
Food is increasingly being used as a weapon, write Benedetta Berti and Erin Sikorsky, members of the Munich Security Conference’s Food Security Task Force. NATO countries should therefore prepare for the targeted manipulation of food systems as a hybrid threat.
Von Benedetta Berti und Erin Sikorsky
The renewed postponement of the EU rules against deforestation is urgently needed, but does not solve the problem of over-bureaucratization.
Von Erlfried Taurer
The WWF responds to the position of the Association of German Forest Owners (AGDW) on the EU law for deforestation-free supply chains (EUDR) from last week. The argument that it would create a “bureaucratic monster” is absurd, it says.
Von Johannes Zahnen
Organic associations in Germany are currently seeing their advertising jeopardized by an EU greenwashing directive of all things. To ensure that they can continue to describe their products as ecological or organic with legal certainty, the Federal Ministry of Justice, which is currently transposing the directive into German law, urgently needs to resolve a legal contradiction.
Von Simone Gärtner
Agriculture has major potential to contribute to EU climate neutrality – by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, storing carbon and providing alternatives to fossil raw materials. To mobilize this potential, the sector must finally become an integral part of the EU’s climate agenda.
Von Christine Chemnitz und Harald Grethe
