INTERNATIONAL
CONFEDERATION
OF EUROPEAN
BEET GROWERS
The EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategy are short of solutions on:
-> the increasing gap between the rapid loss of PPPs and the availability/cost of new tools like NBTs and IPM
-> the increasing burdens for EU growers
-> the lack of a level playing field with 3rd countries.
Targets are not solutions!
In order to streamline the monitoring of the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the EU sugar and ethanol markets, CIBE is establishing a regular short market report.
Here the newest update:
In order to streamline the monitoring of the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the EU sugar and ethanol markets, CIBE is establishing a regular short market report.
Here the newest update:
In order to streamline the monitoring of the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the EU sugar and ethanol markets, CIBE is establishing a regular short market report.
On Friday 20 March 2020 CIBE and CEFS have sent a joint letter to Commissioner Wojciechowski.
The Mercosur agreement does: NOT ensure fair competition for EU farmers, NOT prioritise consumer protection, NOT include strong safeguards to protect the environment.
✅Ensure productivity gains & competitiveness💪
✅Protect growers from unfair competition⚖️
✅Ensure resilience to rising risks🦠📉
✅Support innovation🧬
2025 will be Congress year! European sugar beet world will meet in Rotterdam from 11 to 13 June.
Read our new brochure highlighting the importance of sugar beet local production in Europe !
Discover our Manifesto ahead of 2024 European elections!
Let's work together to restore European agriculture's ambition. The voice of sugar beet growers is outlining 4 priorities:
See how the beet sugar sector is working hard to develop sustainable alternatives to respond to the ban of some key plant protection products.
Such alternatives will most likely have to consist of a combination of techniques and approaches. To develop and successfully implement these will require time, several years and considerable financial investment.
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In October 2013, the European beet growers (CIBE), sugar producers (CEFS) and trade unions of the food and agriculture sector (EFFAT) have formalised a landmark agreement to jointly highlight and report on representative Good Practices of sustainable production of beet sugar in the EU.
CIBE takes part in the AgroCycle project, a Sino-EU collaborative research venture, funded by the European Commission under its Horizon 2020 programme to create a protocol for the implementation of the 'circular economy' across the agri-food sector.
