Agrifood Podcast: Tractor takeover, pest threat, baby shark

This week, EURACTIV’s Agrifood news team reports from a large-scale Flemish farmers’ protest in Brussels and Natasha Foote speaks with Sybren Vos, a team leader at the European Food Safety Agency’s Plant Health division, to learn more about the first appearance of the fall armyworm in Europe – a pest which can damage and destroy a wide variety of crops and has already wreaked havoc across Africa and Asia.

Source Agrifood Brief - Mar 6, 23

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