Portugal and Spain “suffering driest climate for 1,200 years”
Research highlights “severe implications for both food production and tourism” Effects of human-caused global heating are blocking vital winter rains, with severe implications for farming and tourism. This is the
Portugal’s drought: minister delivers warning shot to golf courses
Government will “have no limitations whatsoever” over restricting water supplies Environment minister Duarte Cordeiro has been talking tough on Portugal’s drought – leaving golf courses and other businesses ‘heavy on
Alentejo cereal production halved by this year’s drought
Driest May in 92 years also raises fears for livestock Just as Europe’s ‘bread basket’ Ukraine is being devastated by war, Portugal’s bread basket, the Alentejo, has been devastated by
Farming rules relaxed as drought persists
According to an order published today, the minimum feed to be used in integrated production* has been temporarily suspended, due to the severe or extreme drought that affects most of
Portugal sets about starting to save water
In the grip of severe drought, Portugal is to bring in ‘restrictions’ on the use of water. First, there is to be a series of meetings, starting tomorrow in the
Odemira’s ‘greenhouse slaves’ stage protest against working conditions
After the huge controversy over the appalling living conditions of many immigrant workers brought into Portugal to service intensive agricultural businesses within Costa Vicentina, the workers themselves have started to
Berry farmer’s tenacity wins through: hunger strike outside PM’s residence called off
Determined berry farmer Luís Dias has called off his second hunger strike – this time outside the official residence of prime minister António Costa – after hearing the government will
German ‘boycott campaign’ takes shame of Odemira’s intensive agriculture one step further
The shame of Odemira’s intensive agriculture has been taken onto the international stage by a German boycott campaign, powered by a woman who has been heartbroken by what she sees
Villages in north turn out in force against open-pit mining projects
Villagers from the municipalities of Montalegre and Boticas in the north turned out in force on Sunday to show the strength of local feeling against mining projects. Scores of tractors
Hundreds turn out to demonstrate against agro-industry’s monopoly on rapidly disappearing water
This morning at the normally quiet Alentejan beauty spot of Santa Clara Dam hundreds of people turned out in force to decry agro-industry’s monopoly on dwindling local water supplies. For