Agriculture

Six people and three companies have gone on trial in France, accused of exploiting migrants to harvest grapes for major winemakers in the Champagne region in 2018.

East Africa, South Asia, and now South America: three continents are suffering plagues of locusts. The swarms of insects have been devastating food supplies.

In this episode, Climate Now looks at how farmers are adapting to climate change and our warming planet,

Farmers in Italy have been paying for seasonal workers to return from abroad to harvest crops or risk bankruptcy

African Swine Fever, ASF, is a disease transmitted from wild boar to farmed pigs. There's no risk to us, ASF can't infect humans, but it does cause huge economic problems and Poland is currently on the front line. Find out in Unreported Europe what is being done to stop the spread of the disease.

Unreported Europe takes a look at three producers and how they tackle the challenges of selling their produce whilst the local markets remain closed together with a lack of season workers who normally fill the fields by now.

Precision Farming - or Smart Farming - is aimed at better targeting of resources to the individual animal or crop to avoid waste and improve results and welfare. The sector is set to double by 2025.

French President Emmanuel Macron spent the day shaking hands with farmers and tasting regional specialities

Trade unions demand political action to guarantee retail prices for fruit and vegetables that are liveable for farmers.

A Dutch NGO is in Brussels today trying to convince lawmakers to increase the price of beef, chicken and pork. It's a proposal that won't be to everybody's taste..

A European project is helping to bring new life to degraded land, working to transform and reinvigorate the soil with organic compost and man-made 'technosols'.

Hungary is in the headlines again with allegations of large-scale land-grabbing by the ruling elite. Unreported Europe investigates whether leading politicians are handing out precious farmland to friends and family.

The locusts are destroying crops and threatening vast parts of the country with food insecurity.

Spain faces a pressing problem concerning its groundwater reserves that affects the drinking water supply of towns and cities.

Getting rid of mushroom compost has become a major logistic and economic challenge for growers, one that is now the focus of a European research project.

With Irish farming also under pressure to reduce carbon emissions, farmers are concerned for how they can cut back while still making a profit.

As populations grow and climate change takes hold… increased soil erosion and salinisation are putting humanity’s food security at risk… especially in arid regions