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A paper published by an EU body of agri-food research organisations has said that livestock systems are essential to meeting climate targets.
The EU has committed to promoting a more extensive form of livestock farming in its new Vision for Agriculture and Food.
Agri-Business
The EU approved a further €50m to compensate Dutch farmers for voluntarily closing livestock farming sites in nature conservation areas.
The EU Commission has decided to register two European Citizens' Initiatives, one of which calls for an end to animal farming.
N.Ireland
The University of Nottingham has said livestock farms are being studied as potential sources of resistant infections for animals and humans.
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Following a meeting of the group, it was looking "increasingly likely" the report will be rejected in its entirety, the ICSA chair has said.
