The explosion of farmers’ markets has been driven by consumer desire and convenience. The economic realities for farmers still sit uncomfortably alongside the practice of many farmers’ markets. […]
An Urgenci report on Community Supported Agriculture in Europe reveals rapid growth of this dynamic concept across the Continent. Participants from 22 countries came together to collaboratively produce the vibrant, colourful and very positive document. […]
Food activists, curious eaters, harried, hurried producers and many more came together in Ireland to have food sovereignty proclamation meals. This date – 24th April – was also the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising – the start of Ireland’s independence movement, and the day the Irish proclamation of Independence was read out. So what happened? […]
Olivier De Schutter, Hans Herren and Emile Frison (on behalf of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) give ARC2020 the first contribution to the livestock debate – encompassing climate, sustainable diets and morals – we are running. […]
When it comes to food and agriculture, traveling through the Republic of Moldova takes you back in time, in the best way possible. Eastern Europe still shelters a great number of peasants, which provide direct access to healthy and organic food for consumers. […]
The UK’s Growing Livelihoods scheme to foster smaller-scale food growing has added a further five projects to the pilot phase it launched last year. The new arrivals in the Growing Livelihoods family are Bristol’s Beacon Farms, the Cwm Harry Cultivate group in south Wales, Cloughmills Community Action Team in Northern Ireland, the Cornish Tamar Grow Local group and Falkland Small Growers in Fife. The Tamar Grow Local group will convert an agricultural building into a shared packhouse, meeting space and office. This will extend the existing support for new market gardeners, who will be able to work together and establish new routes to market. With the Falkland Estate earning organic certification in May this year, two new businesses have been set up to establish a network of local growers. Falkland Kitchen Farm and Meadowsweet Organics are part of a plan to share equipment and services such as marketing organic crops. Cloughmills Community Action Team is building a geodesic dome, like the Eden Project, in which hydroponic salad crops will be grown, alongside mushrooms raised on […]
Applications close at 5pm on September 30, 2015 for the UK’s new community and socially aware food fund […]
After Communism, there has been an understandable suspicion of co-ops in Romania. Nevertheless, there are some, and farmers are benefiting. […]
Ramona Duminicioiu unpacks the initiatives and the issues around local food and government inaction […]
A report on the key ideas and outcomes from this civil society gathering held in Brussels 10-11th February […]
EU Citizens want local food but governments are not doing enough to help, Friends of the Earth Europe’s new report reveals. […]
APRODEV’s Karin Ulmer reports on the FAO international symposium on agroecology held in Rome in September. […]
Derek Freitas, Food Sovereignty Campaign Coordinator for Eco Ruralis, reports on another way for producers and consumers to connect […]
EcoRuralis’ Derek Freitas reveals peasant power fighting back against the forces of capital. […]
Suprising as it is to western ears and eyes, there are opportiunities for people in China to actively participate in a good food system […]
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