UK
Auditors warn on UK’s animal health capability
A hard-hitting report from the National Audit Office (NAO) accuses Defra of neglecting its primary animal disease control centre to the extent that the UK’s ability to respond to a major disease outbreak could be threatened. While...
Agrifood Centre for Excellence opens in Belfast
A new Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity has opened at Queen’s University in Belfast to link innovation and data science to benefit the agrifood chain. The Centre is part of a partnership between Queen’s...
AIC finds assurance schemes meet UK requirements
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) has concluded that there is no current end market demand for a UK Gatekeeper Protocol for domestic combinable crops for feed and food, as required for imported commodities. Rather, the...
New skills and careers platform for agriculture and horticulture
The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture (TIAH) is seeking farmers and growers to test its new skills and careers platform, ahead of its formal launch in 2023. TIAH is one of the initiatives arising from the post-Brexit...
Early start for UK’s gene-editing Bill
The government is to fast-track legislation to allow the use of gene-editing technology in England but faces a battle to achieve the same outcome in Scotland and Wales. The Queen's Speech earlier this month...
North Yorks MP to chair EFRA Committee
Sir Robert Goodwill, Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby, has been elected chairman of the influential Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons. He succeeds Neil...