On 1st March 2010, the new EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos arrived in Berlin for a two-day stay by invitation of Federal Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner.

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is among the first and still most important Community policies of the European Union.

Agriculture and Climate Change – New Concept Proposals from Policymakers and Industry

The term "swine flu" is misleading as swine flu is not an animal disease. The World Organisation for Animal Health has therefore named this disease, which affects humans, "pandemic influenza A H1N1". In Germany this human infection is also called "new flu".

The third World Food Summit took place in Rome from 16 to 18 November 2009. The Council of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had invited members to attend.