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Our own articles and interviews, and our summaries of what the Portuguese press reported on sustainability. The Pulse is the daily edition; this is the lasting entrance — every story on its own page.

What was reported

Food
Farm groups urge Brussels to curb Tunisian olive oil imports as producer prices slump
The groups say it makes no sense to prop up the European market while letting third-country oil in through the back door.
9 October 2026AJAP
Food
Nutrifarms partners with Cerestia on olive and almond innovation
Two companies are turning olive and almond estates into live testing grounds for new farming technology.
7 October 2026Alentejo
Food
Portugal opens €4m call for farming and forestry information actions
Farmers' organisations can apply for up to €300,000 each under a new scheme covering nearly all of the cost.
6 October 2026
Food
Trás-os-Montes goat cheese named Europe's best by TasteAtlas
A cheese from Bragança, made the way local families have long relied on for their livelihood, just topped a continental ranking.
5 October 2026Norte
Food
Sheep and goats maintain Algarve golf resort grounds naturally
At a Silves resort, 90 sheep and goats do a job the groundskeepers used to handle alone.
4 October 2026Algarve
Food
Young farmers' group calls for modernising Portugal's irrigation networks
A farming representative says irrigation features in almost every young farmer's investment plan.
3 October 2026
Food
Vinhais seeks UNESCO status for 10,000 ancient chestnut groves
A northern Portuguese municipality wants its chestnut groves to join the ranks of UNESCO-recognised heritage.
2 October 2026Norte
Food
AJAP calls for fairer farmer pay at Beja irrigation congress
At a Beja congress, an AJAP leader floated putting one specific number on every food label.
2 October 2026AlentejoAJAP
Food
Twelve-partner project to assess extensive grazing in Iberian reserves
Sixteen farms across Spain, France and Portugal will test whether grazing can offset its own carbon emissions.
1 October 2026AlentejoADPM
Food
Food waste costs Portugal over 10 million euros daily, op-ed says
A country director does the maths on what ends up in the bin every second in Portuguese homes.
29 September 2026
Food
PS accuses Madeira minister of blocking farmland protection law
A Madeira minister now praises farmland reserves his own department rejected only a year ago.
29 September 2026Madeira
Food
Castro Marim seeks EU protected status for its salt and flor de sal
A thin crystal film that vanishes almost as soon as it forms has put this Algarve village on the path to European recognition.
27 September 2026AlgarveTerras de Sal
Food
Coimbra hosts Europe-China forum on agricultural robotics
After debuting in Wuxi in 2025, the forum crosses continents to Coimbra, with robots demonstrated live and three deals signed.
24 September 2026Centro
Food
Funchal Food Week closes Friday with community soup event
A soup shared in the street closes out a week of talks, markets and cooking demos in Funchal.
24 September 2026Madeira
Food
Alcácer do Sal assembly seeks review of tangerine project approval
Municipal deputies in Alcácer do Sal want regulators to take a second look at a tangerine farm already cleared to draw water in a protected wetland zone.
24 September 2026AlentejoICNF
Food
Portuguese book links seaweed science, farming and fine dining
A chef, a biotech entrepreneur and a scientist put three years into one book about Portugal's seaweed.
24 September 2026AlgarveCCMAR
Food
Portugal launches €40 million aid package for farmers
Farmers hit by soaring fertiliser and energy costs are getting an extra €40 million, with payments arriving earlier than usual.
23 September 2026
Food
Farmers' associations sign support deal for Odemira producers
Two farming associations target Odemira's forgotten inland areas, where ageing and depopulation are reshaping the land.
23 September 2026AlentejoAJAP
Food
Algarve botanical garden trials subtropical fruit trees for climate change
A garden in Luz de Tavira grows mangoes, longans and bananas from as far as the Himalayas and the Amazon.
23 September 2026AlgarveOrchard of Flavours / Pomar dos Sabores
Food
Madeira opens €1.5 million fund for stone terrace walls
Grants of up to €30,000 will pay the full cost of rebuilding Madeira's terraced stone walls.
22 September 2026Madeira
Food
FAO praises Portugal's veterinary e-prescription system as best practice
Over 3 million prescriptions and 200 million animals later, Portugal's system caught the FAO's attention in Rome.
22 September 2026
Food
Portugal launches €110m credit line for grape payments
Cooperatives can now restructure debts from a similar scheme created just a year earlier.
21 September 2026Norte
Food
Beja launches project to organise farm labour recruitment
Nine organisations in Beja are betting on a digital platform and a farm-based school to fix a chronic labour shortage.
18 September 2026Alentejo
Food
Algarve citrus growers see season squeezed by costs and imports
Fuel bills are up and fruit from Egypt and South Africa is flooding in, squeezing Algarve growers' margins.
18 September 2026Algarve
Food
INE forecasts 40% rise in almond output for 2026
Fruit crops are set for sharp gains this year, but not every farmer in the Alentejo is celebrating.
17 September 2026
Food
EU auditors find fruit producer groups lost 39% of members
Producer groups still received about one billion euros a year in EU support while shrinking.
17 September 2026
Food
Madeira's skipjack tuna season peaks in September and October
An old Madeiran technique of salting and sun-drying tuna still shapes what ends up on the table today.
17 September 2026MadeiraReservas da Biosfera de Portugal
Food
Porto scientists develop early detection tools for pear disease
In Torres Vedras, researchers are placing spore-catching devices among pear tree canopies to catch disease before it strikes.
16 September 2026Centro
Food
Galp and ISA test first vineyard agrivoltaic project in Portugal
Solar panels over vines in Lisbon just produced Portugal's first wine grown under an agrivoltaic canopy.
16 September 2026Lisbon
Food
Portugal adds €4.5 million to Xévora irrigation scheme
A pumping station tender in Portalegre district has a submission deadline of October 2026.
15 September 2026Alentejo