EU agriculture MEPs vote to exempt โ€˜old varietiesโ€™ from seed marketing rules

The European Parliamentโ€™s Agriculture Committee (AGRI) voted on Tuesday (19 March) to loosen rules on marketing seeds and plant reproductive material for conservation purposes and informal exchanges between farmers.ย 

In France, โ€˜food sovereigntyโ€™ is at the heart of a political war

Despite French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s intention to incorporate the concept of ‘food sovereignty’ into French law, there remains a strong split over what the concept means, and its compatibility with the government’s trade policy.