Category: Green Policies

For centuries, wheat was grown “by eye.”Today, fields have become connected ecosystems filled with sensors, drones, and algorithms collecting real-time data.This is the era of precision agriculture, which enhances — rather than replaces — the farmer’s expertise through digital tools and scientific insight. From Guesswork to Smart Fields Precision farming optimizes inputs — water, fertilizer, …

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Eating local is a political act.Behind every meal served in a school or hospital canteen lies a choice: whether to buy cheap products from long, anonymous supply chains or to invest in sustainable, local production.That is the purpose of Green Public Procurement (GPP) — a policy that allows public institutions to steer demand toward low-impact, …

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The National Biodiversity Strategy 2030 (SNB) is Italy’s main framework for implementing the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, a core pillar of the European Green Deal.Its goal is to halt biodiversity loss and restore natural and agricultural ecosystems, recognizing that cereal fields are also living ecosystems hosting genetic, microbial, and faunal diversity. Agricultural Biodiversity as a …

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Fertilizer management and nitrogen emissions are now central to Europe’s environmental policy.Although agriculture accounts for only about 10% of total EU greenhouse gas emissions, it is the main source of nitrous oxide (N₂O) — a gas nearly 300 times more potent than CO₂.Cereal crops, including wheat, rely heavily on nitrogen inputs, but how this nutrient …

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Water is the invisible backbone of cereal productivity worldwide. Without it, wheat cannot germinate, grow, or fill its grain.In the Mediterranean — which accounts for nearly one quarter of the EU’s durum wheat output — water has become agriculture’s most limiting factor.The new EU Directive on Sustainable Water Use (2024) and the revision of the …

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The European Green Deal, adopted in 2019, is not just an environmental policy — it is an economic and cultural project reshaping how Europe grows, consumes, and trades food.For cereals, which occupy about 45% of the EU’s farmland, the Green Deal marks a profound transformation: from productivity-based agriculture to climate neutrality, soil protection, and ecosystem …

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The new National Strategic Plan (PSN) 2023–2027, which implements the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Italy, marks a turning point for cereal crops — especially wheat.For the first time, sustainability is not an option but a requirement for accessing European funds. At the heart of this new approach are eco-schemes, instruments that reward farmers who …

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In recent years, the word “regeneration” has started to replace “sustainability.” Reducing impact is no longer enough: we must restore the health of agricultural ecosystems. Regenerative agriculture was born from this idea — to bring back fertility, biodiversity, and climate stability to the land.Wheat, because of its global importance and vast cultivation area, is the …

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For decades, agriculture was financed according to a single principle: productivity. Today, the logic has changed. Banks, investors, and public institutions are shifting their focus toward a new criterion — environmental and climate sustainability. This is the rise of green finance, a system that connects economics and ecology by rewarding those who produce in ways …

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In the new era of sustainable agriculture, trust has become the most valuable crop.Consumers, institutions, and investors increasingly demand to know where wheat comes from, how it was grown, how much water it used, and how much CO₂ it saved.But how can we ensure that this information is true, transparent, and verifiable? The answer lies …

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