PODCAST: Fruit pickers and street vendors – migrants' struggle for decent work
The reality of summer work in rural Lleida and the street sellers who set up shop in Barcelona
agriculture
Southern town of Benissanet sees 3,000 kiwis planted in pilot project
Experiment looks to new fruit as alternative to peaches and nectarines affected by plum pox virus
What are labor and working conditions like for Lleida's fruit pickers?
A farmer, an activist, and a seasonal worker discuss the situation in western Catalonia
Interest in shepherding continues to grow year after year
Majority of School of Shepherds students since 2008 already work in the sector as the centre looks to innovate with new Silvopasture practices
Coronavirus strain from Catalan farms accounts for large share of Europe's new cases - study
SARS-CoV-2 variant most prevalent in UK, Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, and France
Flour sales quadruple during third week of lockdown
Sales of fresh goods are up 29% after previous fortnight saw more sales of "stock" goods like rice and pasta
Agriculture minister, interim replacement at head of foreign ministry
Alfred Bosch stepped down over handling of sexual misconduct allegations against fired chief of staff
2019 ends with 388,124 unemployed
December 2019 figure is best end of year total since 2007 although gender disparity remains entrenched
Introducing 'Fruitourism': Campaign to promote spectacular spring landscape
Aitona, on the Aragon border, is expecting tens of thousands of visitors to flock to its fields of flowering peach trees
Greater Barcelona launches plan to combat food waste
267,000 tonnes of food thrown away each year in Catalonia
Thousand-year-old olive trees proposed as world heritage
To be found in the very south of Catalonia, the ancient trees have been proposed as part of the Important Systems of the World Agriculture Heritage
Catalonia loses nearly half of its dairy farms in last ten years
Price of litre of milk less than production cost
Unemployment falls by 9,044 in July and returns to 2008 levels
The number of people registered on the unemployment lists in Catalonia in July stood at 441,016 people, 9,044 fewer than in June, according to the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security. July represents the sixth consecutive month in which the unemployment rate has decreased and has now returned to 2008 levels, in particular those of December of that year, when the number of unemployed in Catalonia stood at 423,232. Since 2010 unemployment has usually fallen in July, due to seasonal contracts and summer sales. However, this year not only the services but all economic sectors contributed to this decline. In the whole of Spain, the number of unemployed fell by 83,993 and totalled 3,683,061, the biggest decline in July since 1997.