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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Farmers storm Paris agriculture fair as Macron promises more help

    Fresh indication of pan-European tensions as ministers prepare to meet in Brussels on Monday

  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The metropolitan elite has ignored farmers for too long

    It’s time for political leaders to balance reducing carbon emissions with maintaining cheap food production

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of two farmers with pitchforks - one of them wearing a cow mask on top of his head.
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    John Gapper
    The old empires of cocoa, coffee and tea are fragile

    Climate change and attacks on ships in the Red Sea are disrupting supplies of drinks from the global south

    Close up of boxes of Yorkshire Tea on a supermarket shelf
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Europe’s farmers are still on the warpath Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Can Bulgaria’s awkward coalition deal survive?

    Tractors are parked near the European Parliament during a protest by farmers as European leaders meet for an EU summit in Brussels
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    EU fishing
    Denmark and Sweden press Brussels to act against UK in fishing dispute

    Copenhagen claims London’s ban on catching sand eels on Dogger Bank discriminates against its fleet

    Shoal of Sand eels
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Poland
    Zelenskyy seeks meeting with Tusk to end Polish farmers’ border blockade

    Ukraine president says protest ‘increases the threat to the supply of weapons to our warriors’

    Polish farmers take part in a blockade protest at the Dorohusk Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Poland on February 20 2024
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Plans to label UK homegrown food sparks ministerial row

    Business secretary Kemi Badenoch warns agriculture secretary Steve Barclay of cost of proposals and possible breach of WTO rules

    A customer shops for meat in Sainsbury’s
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    News in-depthAgricultural commodities
    Investors plough record amounts into US farmland 

    Value of agricultural acreage more than doubles in bet that prices will soar in world suffering scarcity of resources

    Farming almonds in California
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    European funding for Ukraine chicken magnate angers farmers

    Development bank has poured nearly $1bn into large agribusinesses in war-torn country

    Worker transporting chicken meat for shredding at the Berdyansk Meat Processing Plant
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Sunak bids to win back support of British farmers

    PM to pledge to back rural communities as poll shows Conservatives losing ground in traditional strongholds

    Rishi Sunak speaking at an event at Manor Farm, in Ropley near Winchester
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    Europe Express
    Farmers on the march Premium content

    Rural protests are disrupting EU climate change policies and heightening political tensions

  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    News in-depth13 min
    Carbon problem for damaged peatlands | FT Climate Capital

    Can conservationists turn peatlands back into carbon sinks?

  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    The power of Europe’s rebellious farmers

    The extraordinary concessions they won from Brussels this week illustrate their potential to reshape the bloc’s politics

    Belgian farmers protest in Brussels
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    News in-depthFrench economy
    France seeks new generation of farmers for industry in tumult

    Widespread agriculture protests in Europe highlight tough conditions

    Farmer Bernard Gois
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Brussels bows to farmers’ protests by slashing environmental targets

    Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says plan to halve pesticide use had become ‘symbol of polarisation’

    The three politicians face the camera and are framed by the backs of two of the agricultural negotiators
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Climate legislation
    EU backs down on agricultural emissions after farmers’ protests

    Reference to a 30% cut in nitrogen and methane gases by 2040 removed from proposed road map

    Farmers protest on Luxembourg Square in front of the European parliament
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The rise of agricultural populism

    European politicians have to balance demands of farmers with the need for climate action

    A farmer stands on a tractor at a protest in the centre of Milan
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia food crisis threatens ‘humanitarian catastrophe’

    UK development minister says 3mn people face acute food shortage because of drought and civil war

    A crowd of people receiving food
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    LexFood & Beverage
    Milk alternatives should not drive investors nutty Premium content

    The performance of companies that specialise in milk and meat alternatives should act as something of an appetite suppressant

    An employee wearing a Danone-branded gilet stacks bottles of yoghurt inside a hypermarket
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    EU agriculture
    EU leaders pledge more concessions to appease angry farmers

    Tractors rolled into Brussels on Thursday to block major roads and squares close to summit gathering

    A man throws a bottle towards anti-riot police during a protest by farmers outside the European parliament in Brussels as European leaders met for an EU summit on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    The EU risks losing out on farming’s genomic reboot

    Scientists in Africa and elsewhere are seizing the opportunity to transform agriculture

    Andy Carter illustration of 2 branches of a plant, one with a defiant EU type, with his branch wilting and weak looking, and another with African scientists opening a hatch and working on the genes, with a branch full of life.
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The hidden cost of your supermarket salmon

    Fish sold by major retailers in Europe is harming food security in west Africa

    A photo of a small fishing boat in the waters of Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second largest city
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    EU agriculture
    France turns up heat on Brussels to address farmer protests

    French President Emmanuel Macron pushes for more EU concessions on agriculture and trade

    Belgian farmers use tractors to block the Brussels Ring as they stage protests in Halle
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Sustainability
    Radical food system overhaul would raise costs but deliver $10tn a year benefit, report says

    Report estimates one-third rise in commodity prices by 2050 would be compensated by health and nature savings

    A French farmer blocks a motorway on Monday, with a sign reading ‘Save agriculture, France is hungry’.
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    News in-depthBrexit
    New Brexit border rules will hit UK supply chains, food industry warns

    British consumers risk higher prices after January 31 roll-out of checks on all EU products of plant and animal origin

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