First commodities monitor released
Competere presents the first commodities reports analysing incoming palm oil in the EU-27 countries and Italy. Palm oil is entering Europe at full steam amid the shortage of Ukrainian sunflower oil and the drought harming soy productivity in the Americas. Despite commercial boycotting, palm oil has unflaggingly entered Europe to be heavily used in the […]
Global Britain: what is next?
Leggi l’articolo in italiano The end of his tenure at 10, Downing Street, raises a fundamental question: what will remain of the ideas and policy measures wherewith — no matter what — did Boris Johnson shape the international positioning of present-day UK? In judging the outgoing Prime Minister, one is bound to think that he […]
Dorfmann: «Palm oil a model of sustainability thanks to the EU»
A new episode of Futuro Prossimo, Competere’s podcast, was out on Friday, June 8. Guest Herbert Dorfmann, to talk about the challenges posed to food security and the strategies adopted by the European Union to address them. >> Watch the episode (in Italian) << Leggi in italiano “If the palm oil that enters Europe is […]
Electric vehicles: challenge accepted?
Leggi l’articolo in italiano Upon Europe’s approval to stop combustion engines by 2035, politicians and social forces reacted in disarray. However, does it make sense to get in the way of a trend that is already a reality? In the entrepreneur’s DNA is the ability to take advantage of challenges. So it would be more […]
Nutriscore harms local economies and threatens consumers’ freedom
>> Download the press release << EUROPEAN RESOURCE BANK 2022 MEETING NUTRISCORE HARMS LOCAL ECONOMIES AND THREATENS CONSUMERS’ FREEDOM Competere has joined the European Resource Bank 2022 meeting, taking place on June 6th-8th in Stockholm, organizing the international roundtable “Empowering Consumers – Public Health Policies, Food labels, and the war against fat, salt, and sugar“ […]
Competere at the ERB 2022 meeting
Competere joins the European Resource Bank 2022 meeting, on June 6th-8th, in Stockholm. The European Resource Bank is the largest annual conference of think tanks in Europe. Today it gathers representatives from dozens of European think tanks, scholars, policy experts, elected officials and other parties interested in the debate over strategies and problems posed to […]
NEWS base da modificare e e pubblicare
Greece has joined our campaign in support of consumer freedom. The Nutriscore has been shown to mislead consumers by providing them with distorted information about the nutritional values of foods. Initiative for an effective – based on nutrition education – food labeling system Athens Chamber of Small & Medium Industries recently presented – on behalf […]
Greece joins our campaign for consumers’ freedom
Greece has joined our campaign in support of consumer freedom. The Nutriscore has been shown to mislead consumers by providing them with distorted information about the nutritional values of foods. Initiative for an effective – based on nutrition education – food labeling system Athens Chamber of Small & Medium Industries recently presented – on behalf […]
Sustainable palm oil: a supply chain to invest in
Leggi in italiano If it weren’t for the fact that it has the taste of blatant opportunism, we would say: “We told you so”. But when there is a war going on, there is no messing around with controversy. The decision of many companies in the food industry to return to palm oil, after many […]
Agri-food commodities: cost trend analysis
Leggi in italiano The following data are from tradingeconomics.com From February 23 to March 11, the price of some of the agricultural commodities most linked to Russia and Ukraine have undergone considerable increases: almost 17% for wheat, more than 11% for corn; no recent data are available on sunflower oil, but we are looking at […]