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03/04/2025

The 27th edition of the Fertiberia Award for the best doctoral thesis on agricultural topics has opened.

The 27th edition of the Fertiberia Award for the best doctoral thesis on agricultural topics is open until May 30, 2025. This award, a benchmark in agricultural research since 1996, promotes the...

27/03/2025

Cajamar launches calls for innovative projects in Water, Agrotech, and Foodtech

The Cajamar Innova program launches its 2025 calls for proposals with the aim of promoting the growth of startups and business projects that develop sustainable technological solutions in the fields...

20/03/2025

FEGA customer service to facilitate access to FEADER grants

The Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEGA) has a User Support Center (CAU) to provide information and assistance to those wishing to benefit from aid financed by the European Agricultural Fund for...

19/03/2025

Luis Planas highlights the innovative capacity of the agri-food sector in the National Food Strategy

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, Luis Planas, has highlighted the significant innovative capacity of the Spanish agri-food sector and the importance of its commitment to technology...

30/09/2024

Nearly 37 million euros to save water in irrigation in Girona

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is carrying out two projects to modernise 3,492 hectares of irrigated land in the province of Girona, with a total investment of 36.85 million euros...

Luis Planas highlights the importance of innovation for the future of agriculture at MED9

04/09/2024

Luis Planas underlines the importance of technological innovation and digitalisation in the agricultural sector to overcome future challenges

The Minister of Agriculture , Luis Planas, has underlined the importance of technological innovation and digitalisation as keys to facing the challenges of the agricultural future , especially in the...

09/08/2024

InBestSoil: Valuing soil health for a sustainable future

The InBestSoil project, funded by the European Union through the Horizon Europe programme, focuses on soil health as a fundamental pillar for the sustainability of the agri-food sector and the...

09/08/2024

Modernisation of irrigation in A Limia: An investment of 29.7 million euros to improve water efficiency

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has launched an ambitious project to modernise irrigation in A Limia, Ourense, with an investment of 29.7 million euros . This project, financed with...

2024 Renewal Plan for agricultural machinery

30/07/2024

Machinery Renewal Plan 2024 to promote practices with covers in line with "Carbon Farming"

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will allocate 9.55 million euros in aid to the Plan for the Renewal of the National Agricultural Machinery Park, known as the “Plan Renove”, for the...

04/07/2024

The new SAGRIS 2025 fair was presented, focused on innovation and talent for the future of the agri-food industry

IFEMA has just presented the new SAGRIS fair, the Agriculture and Livestock Fair , which is scheduled for May 8-10, 2025, supported by the main agricultural organizations in Spain. This event...

19/04/2024

FEGA's 2023 Conditionality Report (2022 controls) is now available

Report assessing the application of conditionality in Spain based on data obtained from controls carried out in 2022 based on information provided by the autonomous communities, and communicated to...

10/04/2024

The 4th edition of the CNTA Food Tech Challengers for agri-food startups is now open

Food (Tech)2 Challengers, a technological boosting programme funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) and led by CNTA (National Centre for Food Technology and Safety), is...

25/03/2024

4th. CAJAMAR INNOVA Water Projects Call

Registration for the 4th edition of CAJAMAR INNOVA, a startup incubator and accelerator specializing in water technologies , is open until May 2 for the selection of technological projects that...

11/03/2024

Compound patented by the CSIC and the UPV reduces the impact of drought and improves productivity in tomato plants

The work, published in Horticulture Research , by a team from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, IBMCP (a joint centre of the CSIC and the UPV) has discovered how hexenyl...

01/03/2024

European consortium with the participation of the CSIC will share open scientific data for global climate changes

The Spanish National Research Council , through the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA, CSIC-UC), which is part of the Envri-Hub Next project funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe...

CSIC news on food and nutrition dissemination

15/02/2024

CSIC fights misinformation about food and nutrition

CSIC fights misinformation about food and nutrition with activities for educational centers. Students will share content learned at the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition, ICTAN...

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15/02/2024

What is regenerative agriculture and why is it promoted by the food industry?

Article by Juan Sagarna, director of the Sustainability, Quality and Innovation department of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España. Read more

15/02/2024

Strengthening consumer information obligations for the “breakfast directives”

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food , Luis Planas, has expressed his satisfaction with the agreement recently reached by the European Commission, Parliament and Council of the European...

15/02/2024

Beef cattle farming in Spain emits 66% less greenhouse gases than the world average

In a recent study published in the scientific journal Animal , Spanish scientists from the Polytechnic University of Valencia conclude that beef farming emits fewer greenhouse gases than the world...

24/07/2023

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food invests two million euros in modernization works for sustainable irrigation in Valderredible (Cantabria)

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA), through the State Commercial Society of Agrarian Infrastructures (SEIASA), has formalized today two collaboration agreements with the irrigation...

07/07/2023

Water stress threatens the next horticultural campaign

Specialists in the area have evidenced in recent months an increase in electrical conductivity in irrigation water in specific areas of southern Spain, where they used to maintain optimal water...

09/05/2023

The ITO-FOG Operational Group seeks to improve the quality of olive oil with a software tool and less irrigation

More boost to rural areas The ITO-FOG Operational Group (GO) studies the yield of olive crops The experiments will allow us to see if the quality of the oil improves with irrigation strategies and if...

04/05/2023

Luis Planas: Digitalization and new technologies are necessary for sustainable irrigation in the face of water scarcity

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, stressed today that digitalization and the application of new technologies are necessary instruments to achieve sustainable and efficient...

10/10/2022

Tools to help optimize grain corn irrigation to address climate change

By JA Martinez-López1, H. Martinez-López1, JJ Pardo1, A. Martinez-Romero1, J. Montero1, R. López-Urrea2, C. Casas1, JM Tarjuelo1, A. Domínguez1 (1Centro Regional de Estudios del Agua (CREA) ) of the...