What if we acknowledged the labour embedded in every plate of food we eat, in every glass of wine? Forum Synergies trainee ...
Lawyers have declared it unlawful. The EU’s watchdog has found maladministration. And yet it’s full steam ahead for the EU’s ...
How accessible are conversations around transition? As we at ARC2020 deepen our longstanding work to support agroecology and food sovereignty, with a focus this year on the right to food in our Rural ...
Welcome to the Year of the CAP — but just how “common” will the EU’s next agricultural policy be? Could pensioners be excluded from direct payments? And will farmers finally get a day off? Meanwhile ...
Renewable Energies: Biogas (fermenter), wind power and photovoltaics on a farm in Horstedt (Schleswig-Holstein/ Germany). Photo: Florian Gerlach (Nawaro) via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Ireland, ...
As the tractors roll back into the streets of Brussels and London, it feels an opportune moment to reflect on the state of food, farming and the environment across Europe, and to contemplate — at a ...
Surviving repeated threats of being buried alive, the EU’s first ever law on soil health was finally adopted last month. And while environmental groups have called out “severe shortcomings” in the ...
Signpost pointing to the workshops, reception and gardens of Institut de Tramayes. Photo: Ashley Parsons In the run-up to this November’s Rural Resilience Gathering, ARC2020’s Ashley Parsons and ...
Germany’s energy transition is affecting its land market, driving investment and increasing concentration of land ownership. In this op-ed, Anne Neuber of Netzwerk Flächensicherung, an alliance ...
In a farming system that demands more than it gives, Marie Halicki finds that relationships, not yields, nourish resilience, sovereignty, and sanity. There’s plenty of time to think behind the wheel ...
Buckle up – July is shaping up to be a blockbuster month for the EU agrifood sector. In a double-whammy move, the European Commission is set to unveil not one but two major proposals on 16 July that ...