Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Visit from India: Natural Farming, A Women’s Agricultural Revolution of Diversity

India's Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) initiative is arguably the world's largest and fastest-growing agroecological movement. It is based on cultivating diversity, the ...
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France | Breaking the Silence: Big Ag’s Grip on the Wellbeing of Rural Communities

Without rebalancing power in our agri-food systems, how can we expect our rural communities to be well? Dialogue and ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Ireland | Lessons from the “Poor Man’s Cow”

We are back with Shane Casey in The Burren, Ireland, where lambing season is in full swing. Shane has been busy with the next ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

CAP Environmental Derogations: What is the Impact on Food Security?

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 ...
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 ...
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

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

Czech CAP Strategic Plan – Redistributive Payments and the Counter-Productive Tension Between Small and Big

A well designed redistributive payment is an essential tool to reduce inequalities among CAP beneficiaries and farming systems. But as is often the case, the best design strongly depends on national ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Luxembourg | A Good Gardener is a Teacher and Politician

Hannes Lorenzen spoke to Frank Adams during a horticultural walk in the gardens of the Château d’Ansembourg, Luxembourg. A master gardener and co-founder of the SEED association for the preservation ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

France | Democratising Food Policy – Tweaking The Financial Toolbox

In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

25 years of LEADER – What impacts?

Typical landscape feature of LEADER area Steirisches Vulkanland – some of the 42 extinct volcanos shaping the area with its small settlement and production structures (Source: Bernhard ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Upland Farmers Face Harsh Realities in Post-Brexit England | Part 1

In July 2023, Marianne Landzettel travelled to Northumberland, England to meet and interview four farm families. The resulting story portrays the difficulties upland farmers face as they navigate ...