Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

What Seeds for Tomorrow?

The Seeds4All project has long been working to understand how the EU regulatory framework on seeds and cultivated ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

GMO-Free Seed Production Under Threat! Consequences of NGT deregulation on the ground

Without GMO-free seeds, a GMO-free agricultural and food industry is not possible. Yet there has been little discussion of ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

European Days of Action 2025 – United for Food Justice

Food Justice. The European Days of Action, this year in its eighth edition, put a spotlight on the need to shift power away ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Letter From The Farm | Acorn, The Permitted Fruit

Today is World Acorn Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a love letter to acorns, an unsung superfood! We are ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Commission’s Recommendations to CAP Strategic Plans: Glitters or Gold?

While the co-legislators and the trilogue negotiations at EU level continue to derail the future CAP away from the necessary reforms, in December 2020, the European Commission issued EU-wide and 27 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Case for a Land Observatory in Ireland

Quite quickly, Ireland has seen the kind of land concentration more familiar in other parts of Europe. Various pressures are coming to bare on access to land, including the desires of the very wealthy ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The German CAP Strategic Plan: The Ambition has yet to Come

Everything is still possible for the German CAP 2023-2027. An overview. When the new coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals came into office end of 2021, expectations were high that the ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Leak – Draft NGT Regulation and Impact Assessment revealed

In the interests of transparency, ARC2020 is making available the European Commission’s draft regulation on NGTs – New Genomic Techniques. Also made available is the Impact Assessment which ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Bhutan | An Economy for Food Sovereignty and Organic Farming

In the final part of this short series on Bhutan, Hannes Lorenzen teams up with Adrian von Bernstorff to examine how the Bhutanese economy is increasingly geared toward supporting food sovereignty and ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Op-Ed | Europe Must End The Double Standards In Toxic Pesticides Exports

A number of hazardous pesticides which are banned in the EU are freely manufactured and exported to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Feeding Ourselves 2023 – Building Bridges for Rural Resilience

ARC2020’s Rural Resilience project explores the possibilities for Europe’s territories to become more resilient from the ground up. Building on our 2020-2022 research into initiatives in ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Impact of CAP Beyond the EU – A Closer Look on Soya Imports and Milk Product Exports

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a policy of the European Union that mainly focuses on agriculture and the food system in each Member State. However, the CAP also has a decisive influence on ...