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Two Dutch entrepreneurs say floating farms will help secure cities’ food supply.

This announcement comes after Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Minister Henk Staghouwer announced his resignation via Twitter on 5 September as the Netherlands was dealing with a nitrogen dilemma.

A surge in energy prices is threatening a wave of closures across the Dutch bakery sector, its industry lobbies warned on Tuesday, with some businesses saying costs have risen as much as tenfold.

Les Pays-Bas connaissent leur quatrième épisode de sécheresse en cinq ans. Une situation qui fragilise l'ensemble des digues du pays.

La ville de Haarlem, près d’Amsterdam, veut bannir des publicités pour la viande dans l’espace public en raison de son impact climatique. Une première mondiale.

The three-way partnership has launched a pilot programme aimed at reducing nitrogen emissions on dairy farms

The Dutch brewers’ association has come out against a 3% tax on sugary beverages because it also applies to non-alcoholic beers. In an interview with NU.nl, former minister Fred Teeven, now the chair of trade organisation Vereniging Nederlandse Brouwers, complained that beer makers had been trying for years to produce low and no-alcohol beers to reduce alcohol consumption but were now being punished. 

Will this be the first cultivated meat product to hit the shelves in Europe? Netherlands' agricultural success based on its pioneering farming methods is now again at the forefront of food innovation thanks to its cultured meat ecosystem.

Milestone marks the beginning of a regional renewable hydrogen economy

Farmers are under attack around the world but especially in the Netherlands at the moment. 

The ruling coalition wants to cut emissions of pollutants, predominantly nitrogen oxide and ammonia which are produced by livestock, by 50 per cent nationwide by 2030

L'agriculture néerlandaise : passé, présent et futur Judith de Vor* Le gouvernement des Pays-Bas a récemment publié une déclaration choquante 

Gasunie subsidiary Eems-Energy Terminal has come to an agreement with two energy groups to deliver liquified natural gas (lng) to the Netherlands, limiting Dutch dependence on Russian gas. Once converted, the amound of lng Gasunie is buying from Czech group CEZ a.s. and Anglo Dutch Shell Western LNG Ltd, should create a total of seven billion cubic metres of ‘normal’ gas, which will then be pumped into the gas network. The liquified gas, which is frozen at a temperatur

A project to revive the crop, once grown across the Netherlands, is boosting pollinators and a renewed interest in the seed

With millions of chickens and ducks culled so far, farmers say only a vaccine can save the poultry sector from the ‘invisible enemy’

EURACTIV.com 06-09-2022 “Farmers and fishermen need certainty about where the sector is headed so that they can invest and do business,” Staghouwer from the Christian Union party tweeted.

Charging electric cars needs to become easier, safer and smarter. Dutch environment minister Vivianne Heijnen and Yana Garcia Gonzalez, Secretary for Environmental Protection of California, signed an agreement to this end today.

Henk Staghouwer was only in post for nine months.

Farmers in the Netherlands are revolting over the government's plan to drastically reduce nitrogen emissions by 2030 and is pointing to agriculture and farmers as the worst offenders. But farmers have taken to the streets, blocking roads, and distribution centers, and there has been some serious incidents, including police opening fire on protestors,

The quality of the water in the Netherlands is rapidly falling and it is unlikely European standards will be achieved, possibly prompting a crisis comparable to the current nitrogen pollution situation, the NRC reports. Between 2015 and 2021 the quality of water in as many as two out of three lakes and rivers has deteriorated, data analysis by the paper showed. 

An agricultural uprising is shaking the Netherlands

Speedy delivery service Zapp has stopped operations in the Netherlands citing uncertainties due to changing rules and regulations concerning dark stores, Dutch media report. Zapp, which announced its possible departure last month, had to close one of  its ‘dark store’ warehouses in Amsterdam in April because the location contravened the city’s planning regulations. 

New farmers’ protests have erupted across the Netherlands, despite police warnings not to break the law.

Depuis le 10 juin, des agriculteurs organisent des blocages aux Pays-Bas. Ils protestent contre une mesure gouvernementale qui prévoit de réduire de 30 % le cheptel dans le pays.
Sur une vidéo relayée par les médias hollandais, on entend très clairement le bruit des balles. Dans la nuit du 5 au 6 juillet, à Heerenveen (Pays-Bas), en marge d’une manifestation d’agriculteurs, la police, arguant dans un communiqué d’une « situation menaçante », a tiré des coups de feu qui ont atteint un tracteur.