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RISE supports the transition to a sustainable European agriculture which is not only resource efficient and productive, but also works to ensure ecosystem resilience, produces safe, healthy and nutritious food, manages the countryside, improves the quality of life in rural areas; and supports Europe to keep its International Agreements on the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate. Follow our latest news!
Research lessons to inform future CAP reform
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 – Brussels The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plays a crucial role in aiming to transition to and maintain sustainable practices while addressing biodiversity loss and the challenges of climate change. Despite an annual spending of €12.1 billion on environmentally oriented measures, concerns persist about the ongoing decline of biodiversity in Europe…
Launch of the NutriBudget Project
A new Horizon Europe project – NutriBudget – was launched last September to develop and implement a prototype of an integrated nutrient management platform, called NutriPlatform, in various regions across Europe, as a decision-support tool (DST) for farmers, advisors, European policy makers and regional authorities. RISE Foundation leads the Work Package 6 on Communication, Dissemination,…
Successful General Assembly of Circular Agronomics
The Consortium of Circular Agronomics met in Berlin from 26 to 28 September for the 4th General Assembly.
New report on sustainable soil management!
In this report we combined an extensive review of the literature on soil health and management with a review of policy and interviews of over 30 private soil management initiatives across Europe.
23.06.2022 | Sustainable soil management in the EU: What’s stopping it? How can it be enabled?
Launch event for the RISE Foundation report on soil
14.03.2022 | Less talk, more action: turning the soil story around
A ForumforAg 2022 event: We know how urgent it is to address soil health, and we know what has to be done. So what is holding us back?
Soil Protection and Building up Organic Matter (Humus)
Presentations and video of the event co-organised with MEP Dorfmann and Dr. Franz Fischler
Don’t miss our May events!
We’re co-organising two events this month. One on the Green Week on nutrients in the circular economy and the other with the European Parliament on soil organic matter
A conversation on EU soils – FFA 2021
Summary and report of the webinar organised by the RISE Foundation on March 11th 2021 in the context of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture
A conversation on European soils (11/03/21)
Join this event on March 11th (10h30-12h CET) to learn about initiatives to restore soil health and how change can be brought about
European Sustainable Nutrient Initiative (ESNI) conference (27/10/20)
Join this conference to get the latest insights on the practical implementation of biobased mineral fertilizers for Europe
A Green Recovery for EU Agriculture
198 political decision-makers, business leaders, trade associations, NGOs, and think tanks have come together demanding a Green Recovery for Agriculture.
New report on Crop Protection
New report by the RISE Foundation: “Crop Protection & the EU Food System. Where are they going?”
SYSTEMIC workshop: new date!
Due to the ongoing measures regarding COVID-19 Corona Virus, the date of the event has now been moved to 26th October. You will therefore need to re-register.
Launch event of the Crop Protection report
On May 19th 2020 we held a webinar to present the report with our Chairman Janez Potocnik as a host and interventions from Allan Buckwell and Sir Charles Godfray.
New date! Register now – SYSTEMIC workshop
Due to the ongoing measures regarding COVID-19 Corona Virus, the date of the event has now been moved to 26th October. You will therefore need to re-register.
New project : BESTMAP
Foundation is currently involved in the Horizon 2020 BESTMAP project which kicked off in September 2019 and will work for four years to develop improved tools to European policy-makers to predict the impacts of future policies on rural areas.
Open day at SYSTEMIC demonstration plant BENAS, Germany
Join the open day at the SYSTEMIC project’s demonstration biogas plant BENAS in Ottersberg, Germany on 13 July 2019.
What future for European Crop Protection?
A recent RISE Foundation debate (8 April 2019 – Brussels, Belgium) discussed what the future crop protection system in the EU could look like and how the agricultural sector could be supported to achieve this.
New project: Circular Agronomics
This month of September we’ve started a new project under the H2020 Research and Innovation Programme called ‘Circular Agronomics’ (Grant Agreement No 773649)
Successful SYSTEMIC policy-research workshop
On the 30th May 2018 the H2020 projects SYSTEMIC and AGROCYCLE held a joint policy-research workshop entitled ‘Fertilising products based on animal manure under the Nitrates Directive and the Circular Economy’ in Brussels. RISE was responsible for the co-organisation of the meeting and developing its content.
The pre-FFA Stakeholder Debate: Rethinking EU livestock
As has become tradition on the eve of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture, the RISE Foundation engaged over 150 high level stakeholders in an animated debate on a key and current topic for the future of European agriculture. This year the topic was livestock.
Allan Buckwell talks about livestock at the FFA2018
Allan Buckwell, the Academic Director of the RISE Foundation’s study on “The optimal scale and balance of EU livestock” talks about livestock’s challenges at the Forum for the Future of Agriculture on March 27th 2018 in Brussels.