I+D / I+D
UPM - Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) have demonstrated that replacing the traditional fallow with cover crops can reduce nitrate pollution without increasing the salinity or reducing yield.
Sustainable Development / environmental News
CSIC - Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have participated in an international project to develop a mathematical model able to predict environmental collapses. The model, that has been applied to a real situation of environmental collapse, could also be used in other areas such as fisheries, farming and social systems
SEAE - "The compromise proposal of Van Rompuy to the EU budget 2014-2020 dramatically cuts rural development and environmental services and does not address key challenges". That is the valoration of ""the Spanish Society of Organic Agriculture about latest proposal to reduce the EU budget for 2014-2020 PAC that will be debated this week in Brussels
UPA - UPA complaint which, if successful the initiative of Herman Van Rompuy to reduce in 25,000 million euros EU funds for agriculture and rural development, "the system of European food production, which feeds more than 500 million people and employs tens of millions of citizens,would be in serious danger"
COAG - The Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Cattlemen from Spain (known by its Spanish acronym COAG ) presents this monday November 19 in Brussels its online sales platform, www.arcocoag.org , as part of the annual conference on innovation and sustainable agriculture organized by the European Commission. This website was born this past June with the participation of 540 farmers
CCOO / UGT - FITAG UGT and FEAGRA-CCOO unions ask the Spanish Minister of Employment and Social Security, Fátima Báñez, an emergency meeting to address the serious problem of lost wages as a result of inclement weather. The severe drought and extremely serious wildfires, as well as episodes of torrential rain, frost and hail also caused heavy losses in agricultural employment.
Agriculture / News on Livestock
Varias Organizaciones - Through this joint statement, the rabbit breeders of the Valencian Community in Spain, grouped in AVA, UPA, LA UNIÓ and FECUVA, request the immediate intervention by the Departments of Agriculture and of Trade to curb on an urgent basis to which they describe as "aggressive business practices that are carrying the sector to the brink of collapse"
UPA - Thousands of farmers will be mobilized on 22 November in Spain, convened by the agrarian organization UPA, to protest against what they see as "dismantling of the rural world as we know it." On 22 and 23 November are critical days for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, "which is more than 30% of total agricultural income in Spain," says UPA
I+D / I+D
Boletín Agrario - Members of the spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Seville have developed a material from alpeorujo that can be used as an insulator to prevent that the pesticides and phytosanitary waste reach the subsoil and contaminating the groundwater aquifers. One more use for this residue of the oil industry as abundant as a contaminant and difficult to manage