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CAP direct payments post 2020: German positions
What are the different political parties’ positions – in Germany and at EU level – likely to be regarding CAP reform? with Sebastian Lanker. […]
Year: 2015
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Farm Incomes Down Across EU
EU farm incomes are down, but are plummeting in European powerhouse economy Germany. […]
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What will the Paris Agreement Mean for Farming & Food?
The Paris agreement reached Saturday 12 December at the COP negotiations has been hailed as historic. Is it? And what will it mean for farming and food? […]
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COP21 – Street View.
ARC2020’s Communications manager had an eventful time in – and getting to – COP21 in Paris. Here’s his story. #D12 #REDLines […]
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We are fed up with agro industry!
A call to action for farmers, manufacturers and consumers to send a common message in Berlin on 16. January 2016. We are the people from the countryside and from the city, from the north and from the south. We are fed up with agro-industry – we want a rural an organic agricultural and food system that is accepted by society! […]
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Understanding the Nature of Peace
Following terrorist attacks and retaliatory bombings, read Understanding the Nature of Peace. A joint article by Hannes Lorenzen (ARC2020) and Juliette Majot (IATP) which places these awful occurrences in a rural, farming and food context. […]
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4 pour 1000 – France leads on Soil Carbon?
IATP’s Ben Lilliston at #COP21 in Paris, examines France’s soil plans, and how agroecological or otherwise they are. […]
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Elephant in Room at COP21 Paris Climate Talks? Food.
The grand political narratives around the COP21 conference in Paris will barely touch on one crucial aspect – food. And why does food matter for climate change? Well, it’s a major factor driving it yet barely gets a mention. […]
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A WholeFood System – agroecology, its cousins & consultations
Agroecology and its near terminological cousins are in the ether – and many organisations are asking for your feedback, or telling you about great examples from all over the world. So, what are they? […]
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NewsFlash December 2015
Hello and welcome to our December newsletter! The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – better known as COP21 – is underway in Paris. As we saw in the run up, with the Bonn talks we covered recently, nation states mostly argue their corner and real ambition is quite low: 2.7 degrees Celsius warming might be an optimistic outcome of the COP21, based on Bonn – and that’s hardly enough to prevent runaway climate change, when 2 degrees is the recognised ceiling. Agri-food is implicated in both Climate Change mitigation and adaptation. We’vesharpened our focus on these plus on regenerative agriculture, on soil, land use change and a host of other factors. In short we believe there are ways food production can become truly sustainable as outlined by IPES and others over recent months. This involves climate change and other food security, agroecology and food sovereigntydimensions, as we explore in numerous posts on our site. Let’s all work towards a real, sustainable agri-food sector, one that can hep us cope with […]
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NewsFlash November 2015
Hello and welcome to our November newsletter!Can rural areas step up to help with Europe’s refugee crisis? What is the rural response to climate change? And what are the core issues of inequality between rural and urban regions in the EU? These and other topics questions are being assessed this coming week in Austria at the second European Rural Parliament. (Live video links also at post)We’ve been busy covering GMO’s in recent weeks: EU Member States and regions have either opted in or out of the option of growing, and that has divided the UK. Romanian farmers however, seem unified in their rejection of the technology. In what has been one of our most popular stories ever – one with some real detective work conducted by Ramona from Eco Ruralis – we reveal how much a failed crop GM Maize is in what was once the darling nation-state of the biotech sector. (This story has been shared from our site over 11,000 times on facebook, a stat which excludes other shares from elsewhere). Some more […]
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COP21 & Farming – Soil, Land & Climate Change.
As COP21 begins, we ask, is Soil an Ally in Fighting Climate Change? And what role for land use? […]
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Dairy Farmer Organisation EMB calls for Hogan’s Head
plummeting prices despite the all the signals and scientific evidence have made the Commissioner’s position untenable, the EMB claim. […]
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Glyphosate, Cancer & the Agencies – who’s right?
How does one group of the world’s most reputable experts find that “the herbicide glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans”, while another group of the world’s most reputable experts finds that it is “unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans” – in the same year? […]
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DEFRA Shadow Faces Challenge Selling Progressive Food Policy
The appointment of Kerry McCarthy as shadow secretary of state at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) received at best a lukewarm response from the UK food and farming sector. How will she respond? […]