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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
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
Food
Miranda do Douro hosts first meeting of local beekeepers
Beekeepers from across the Terra de Miranda region are gathering for the first time on 5 October.
14 September 2026Norte
Food
Algarve schools see healthy snacking rise sharply, study finds
In five weeks, one Algarve indicator jumped 19 percentage points, but not every measure moved the same way.
14 September 2026Algarve
Food
Pinhel councillor meets young farmers' association head
A councillor and the head of Portugal's young farmers' association sat down to tackle a shrinking generation of growers.
14 September 2026CentroAJAP
Food
Douro wine growers to get €12m aid based on unpicked grapes
The payment formula compares each grower's 2026 harvest with their average output over the past five years.
12 September 2026Norte
Food
Farmers' group threatens protests over fuel subsidy shortfall
Farmers say a tax break could cut diesel prices by nearly 20 cents a litre, twice what the government offers.
11 September 2026Alentejo
Food
DGADR publishes July 2026 drought monitoring report
A new snapshot of Portugal's soil moisture and reservoir levels lands just as summer irrigation pressure peaks.
11 September 2026ICNF
Food
Portugal extends 10-cent-per-litre subsidy for agricultural diesel
Agricultural diesel prices have jumped around 40% in just six months.
11 September 2026AJAP
Food
Beja hosts national irrigation congress as water demand could rise 27.5%
Experts gather in Beja to confront a scenario where farms could need nearly a third more water than today.
10 September 2026AlentejoGEOTA
Food
Farmers' body demands nationwide support for wine sector crisis
Farmers' group says Spanish subsidies for wine producers are over 30 times higher than Portugal's.
10 September 2026
Food
ACOS laboratory gains Official Laboratory status in Portugal
Ahead of the olive harvest, a laboratory in Alentejo is expanding to test samples from producers across Portugal and Spain.
10 September 2026Alentejo
Food
Avis children to get olive oil from their own tree until age 18
Each tree yields about a litre of oil a year, delivered home around Christmas time.
10 September 2026Alentejo
Food
Foundation launches guide on soil protection and regeneration
A foundation's new guide insists there is no single recipe for regenerating farmland soil.
10 September 2026