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12/06/2025

The CARBOGAN Operational Group will announce its objectives at the 2025 Spanish Forestry Congress.

The CARBOGAN Operational Group has announced its participation in the IX Spanish Forestry Congress , which will be held from July 16 to 20, 2025 in Gijón , as part of its outreach and awareness...

08/08/2024

The MAPA allocates more than 37 million euros to finance 65 new innovative projects of supra-autonomous operational groups in the agri-food and forestry sector

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has announced the funding of 65 new innovative projects in the agri-food and forestry sector, with a total investment of 37.3 million euros. The...

08/08/2024

New grants for training in digitalisation in the agri-food and forestry sector announced

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has launched a call for grants aimed at training and the exchange of knowledge in the agri-food and forestry sector, with a total budget of nine million...

27/08/2025

Agriculture and livestock: invisible allies in forest fire prevention

In recent summers, forest fires have once again made headlines throughout Spain and much of southern Europe. Intensifying heat waves, longer periods of drought, and the accumulation of biomass in the...

08/11/2022

Cross visit of Hungarian advisors in Germany (Niederalteich) within the framework of the i2connect project

What is NAK's role in i2connect? (NAK) has been an active member of the international i2connect H2020 project as a consortium partner for two and a half years. The project , which started in November...

08/11/2022

Inspirational ideas: French farmers establish local value chain with wood from hedgerows

Barbecue season is approaching! And that is good news for the farmers of the ‘Association Bois Paysan’ in the French Cévennes region, who established a local collective that produces logs, woodchips...

08/11/2022

Inspirational ideas: Data-based decisions for better farming

Farmers are increasingly using new technologies to gather and process data to deliver economic and environmental insights and increase farm performance. Smart ways to collect, manage and share data...

08/11/2022

Inspirational ideas: Mobile technology to prevent wolf attacks

A growing wolf population is increasingly causing problems for Spanish extensive livestock farmers. Operational Group GELOB has developed and tested a technological solution that can help monitor...

08/11/2022

Managing emerging forest pests and diseases

In the last few decades, a growing number of native and non-native pests and diseases have caused severe losses to European forests. Horizon 2020 multi-actor project HOMED is developing science-based...

08/11/2022

Inspirational ideas: Joining forces for water-related ecosystem services

The middle Brenta river plain in the Italian Veneto region forms a rich ecosystem with environmental, cultural, recreational and agricultural value. Under the title ‘Parco Fiume Brenta’, a LIFE...

08/11/2022

Accelerating positive change in the food system

The new EIT Food Open Innovation Call will fund collaborative food innovation projects that will create positive change in the food system. The proposals must aim to result in commercially viable...

08/11/2022

Demonstrating that IPM works

IPMWORKS is a Horizon 2020 project which aims to demonstrate ways to significantly reduce pesticides in all European agricultural sectors. It is a network of demonstration farm hubs giving farmers the...

08/11/2022

The European Leadership Academy creates the “Women's Academy for Rural Innovation”

The European Leadership Academy creates the “Women's Academy for Rural Innovation” asimon Mon, 09/19/2022 - 12:54 The program will host 15 women from different European rural areas to acquire the...

10/10/2022

EFSA recommendations to improve animal welfare during transport

According to recommendations published by EFSA, it is necessary to provide more space, reduce maximum temperatures and keep travel times to a minimum to improve the welfare of farm animals during...

10/10/2022

The three most important points of a sustainable company

In an increasingly busy world and society, the competitiveness of large companies is no longer only based on their logistics and quality of products or services. Sustainability has come to determine...

10/10/2022

What can I do if the heat burns my harvest?

Farmers want high temperatures to be covered by policies, just as is the case with frost Extremaduran farmers have experienced hot summers, but it is likely that very few like this one. Summer fruits...

10/10/2022

From the hoe to GPS: the countryside cultivates technology

Precision agriculture, digitalization, artificial intelligence, drones, sensors to detect pests or know the needs of plants, geolocation systems in livestock farms and crops... are instruments that...

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...

10/10/2022

Disseminate and raise awareness about the importance of sustainable food production: an unavoidable objective

Under the motto Leaving no one behind, FAO will celebrate World Food Day on October 16. To commemorate this anniversary, on Monday, October 17, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and its Higher...

10/10/2022

Sheep and goat pox outbreaks are growing in Andalusia

The new outbreaks have been detected in two farms located in the Granada towns of Cúllar and Benamaurel, both located in the surveillance radius of the first outbreak. In the first case, Cúllar, the...

10/10/2022

Advances, changes and innovations will take center stage at SEPOR

The 55th Edition of SEPOR 2022 arrives with a program full of conferences, debates and activities that will once again position the fair as the nerve center of the entire livestock, agri-food and...

10/10/2022

Cooperative robots developed to harvest table grapes

Researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI) and the Agricultural Mechanization Unit (UMA) of the UPC are working with other research centers and European companies in...

Isabel Bombal, general director of Rural Development, Innovation and Agri-Food Training of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

10/10/2022

Isabel Bombal: Innovation and digitalization will facilitate the transition towards a more sustainable agriculture

The general director of Rural Development, Innovation and Agri-Food Training of the central government has assured that innovation and digitalization of the entire value chain of the agri-food sector...

04/10/2022

i2connect Summer School in Chania: Strengthening the capacity of future advisors to support interactive innovation

The first i2connect Summer School, aiming to strengthen the capacity of future rural advisors to support interactive innovation, took place from the 23rd until the 29th of July 2022 at the...