INTERNATIONAL
CONFEDERATION
OF EUROPEAN
BEET GROWERS
On January 26, 2017, CIBE participated in a workshop entitled “Barriers and Opportunities to Valorising Agri-food wastes, co-products and by-products (AWCBs)” in Brussels, Belgium. The workshop brought together key players to identify important resources, constraints and opportunities to developing novel value chains and creating sustainable business models.
After 24 years as Director of CGB, Alain Jeanroy will retire at the end of 2016. He started at CGB’s economic service from 1983 to 1989, then worked as Director of the AGPM (General Association of French Maize Producers) before reintegrating CGB in 1993 as Director.
The EU beet sugar sector has a long tradition of valorising all products arising from the processing of sugar beet, while keeping the use of inputs to an optimum. The Beet Sugar sector thus already applies the principles of the circular economy and waste reduction, anticipating and leading the way towards higher resource efficiency and waste elimination.
It will be the opportunity to address two major issues for the sector: the first quota-free campaign and risk management in the context of the future CAP 2020.
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Different sessions tackled:
➡️Crop protection & Innovation
➡️Weed control
➡️Beet seed
➡️Carbon farming
This year, TRCC was held in parallel with the Potato Europe 2026 & Sugar Beet Expo 2026. An opportunity for all the actors to meet!
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.
