Resilient, self-reliant food systems. This is what a major new IPES-Food report puts forward as a way to deal with food price ...

A farm can be a place for the kind of learning that’s hard to find in educational institutions. Combining her work in both ...

Back in March 2022, and following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the conservative branch of the EU parliament and agricultural ministers started to build on their narrative of at-risk food ...

Carbon Farming, isn’t the CAP doing it already? All parameters of soils are deteriorating in the EU. Erosion, compaction, organic matter decline, pollution, loss of biodiversity and salinization are ...

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 ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in plant breeding. But talks are stalling on one particularly sticky issue.

Where to start? Well, in the wise words of Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music – let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. So we’ll start at the start of the previous CAP – which ...

The EU powers-that-be are currently in the midst of big talks on the EU’s €1.2 billion budget, known in EU-speak as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). And as usual, where there’s big bucks, ...

The Ciasnocha Family Farm team from left to right: Mirosław, Krzysztof, Marian, Paweł and Mateusz Ciasnocha Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm – a 730 ha regenerative grassland farm in the Vistula delta ...

Fifteen years on from the ‘land rush’, a multi-pronged global land squeeze is forcing farmers and communities off the land – and Europe has a key role to play in fixing it. By Nick Jacobs. After a ...

A cabbage farmer in southern Ukraine holds a bomb fragment from his field. Photo (c) ARC2020 taken by Paul Lemaire The war in Ukraine has intensified the debates about the future of agriculture in the ...

Pesticides deemed too toxic for Europe are still being produced here and sold abroad to be sprayed on fields where farm workers live, work, and raise their children – but these are also fields that ...