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Neil Parish MEP: pesticides & food supply, risk vs. hazard, Week without Pesticides

Posted by: Helen Dunnett on January 26, 2009

At the Forum for the Future of Agriculture, which we attended last week (see previous post below), we spoke to Neil Parish, a Member of the European Parliament, where he is Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

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Former Commissioner Franz Fischler: balancing food and environmental sustainability

Posted by: Helen Dunnett on January 17, 2009

In our last interview from the Future of Agriculture series, we have to Franz Fischler, former European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, and now Chairman of the Rise Foundation, an organisation that supports rural development.

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Agra-facts: European agriculture in the future

Posted by: Helen Dunnett on January 10, 2009

Moving on to our penultimate interview from the Forum for the Future of Agriculture (see previous posts below), please find below our interview with Roger Waites, editor of AGRA FACTS, a Brussels-based newsletter that closely monitors EU agriculture policy.

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Unilever on the future of agriculture: productivity and technology

Posted by: Helen Dunnett on January 09, 2009

At the recent Forum for the Future of Agriculture (see previous posts below), we asked Willem-Jan Laan, Director of Global External affairs at Unilever for his views on the future of agriculture and the role of technology within it. View his comments in the video below.

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