The interest related to agricultural sustainability in general, and farming systems in particular, gained recently in importance on the research agenda of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the Directorate-General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Within the...

This report is based on the outcome of a study carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS, Spain) in cooperation with EuroCARE (Bonn, Germany). The report provides a detailed description of the methodology developed...

This final report of the AVEMAC study presents an assessment of the potential vulnerability of European agriculture to changing climatic conditions in the coming decades. The analysis is based on weather data generated from two contrasting realizations of the A1B emission scenario of the...

This report presents the main results obtained from a survey on the impacts of non-tariff measures (NTMs) existing in trade flows from African agricultural and food trade to the EU. The report begins with a literature review of current methods used to detect the presence of, and tools to...

This report contains a summary and the presentations of the expert workshop 'Commodity Market Development in Europe - Outlook', held in October 2010 in Brussels. The workshop was held in order to present and discuss the preliminary results of the European Commission's outlook on EU agricultural...

These proceedings consist of presentations and a summary of a workshop on "Commodity Market Development in Europe - Outlook" held in November 2009 in Brussels. The workshop discussed short- and medium-term commodity baseline projections of agricultural markets in Europe. Policy makers, market...