Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Serbia | When Young People and Farmers are Guardians of Soil Health

While the impact of the EU's new Soil Monitoring Law remains to be seen, in Europe's territories local communities are ...
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 - ARC2020Opinion

EU Budget: From Green Deal to Raw Deal for the Environment

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust ...
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

Where The Untended Feeds Us – Cécile Gilquin’s “Tiers-Paysage”

“All the places neglected by human beings”: this is the site of the Third Landscape (Tiers-Paysage) as defined by Gilles Clément in his Manifesto of the Third Landscape. Cécile Gilquin was drawn to ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

EU Budget: How Brussels’ New Plans Put Regions Out to Pasture

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust settles, one question looms large: who wins, and who’s left behind? In this ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Op-Ed | Farmland Sees the Less Sunny Side of Germany’s Solar Transition

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Does EU Policy Have An Appetite For Local Food?

Across Europe, small-scale farmers are essential actors in local food provisioning, yet they face structural barriers to accessing public support. While industrial agriculture continues to receive the ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Letter From The Farm | Neighbours, Not Numbers: How Local Feeds Us All

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Rural Europe Takes Action – Food System Lessons from Marburg

From left: Hannes Lorenzen (ARC2020); Ann-Marie Weber, Almut Busch and Merle Drusenbaum (kollektiv von MORGEN); and Marcus Nürnberger (AbL), pictured in a farmyard in southern Marburg-Biedenkopf in ...