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What’s Food Sovereignty got to do with it? The New Geopolitics of Food

Resilient, self-reliant food systems. This is what a major new IPES-Food report puts forward as a way to deal with food price ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

Sitting with our contradictions – Learning to reconnect with nature and find peace as humans

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

Letter From The Farm | Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Can the CAP and Carbon Farming Coexist?

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 ...
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

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

CAP Social Conditionality: A Game Changer for Farm Workers?

As of 2020, an estimated 8.7 million people were reported to be employed in agriculture. However, when considering the entire unregulated workforce, the agricultural labor force is significantly ...
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The EU is Mulling a Seismic Budgetary Shift – What Would This Mean for Agri and Rural Areas?

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, ...
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 ...
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Re-CAP: Breaking down the breakdown of the EU’s green farming measures

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 ...
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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 ...
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LEAK: A sneak peek at the EU’s new blueprint for agrifood policy

Tough on trade, but more lax on CAP – that’s a quick summary of the EU’s new blueprint for agriculture and food, according to a leaked draft that ARC2020 got its hands on. So what’s on the menu for ...