Agricultural and Rural Convention
  • About
    • Who we are
    • Contributors
    • Weekly Briefing
    • Monthly newsletter
    • Contact
    • Editorials
    • All Articles
  • Agroecology
    • Agroecology
    • Seeds4All
    • Soil
  • CAP
    • All CAP News
    • CAP Strategic Plans
  • Farm
    • Agroecology
    • Diversification
    • Regenerative Agriculture
    • High Nature Value
    • Organic
    • Seeds
    • Soil
    • Access
    • New Entrants
    • Letter From The Farm
    • Farmers
    • Livestock
  • Environment
    • Climate
    • Biodiversity
    • Pesticides
    • Soil
  • Policy
    • Brussels
    • CAP
    • EU Green Deal
    • Farm to Fork
    • Biodiversity Strategy
    • International
  • Food
    • COVID-19
    • Pesticides
    • Trade
    • Agri-Industry
    • Workers
    • Tech
    • Landgrab
    • GM
    • Waste
    • Food Sovereignty
    • Seeds
    • Soil
    • Local Food
    • Digitalisation
  • Rural
    • All Rural News
    • Rural Europe Takes Action
    • Rural Dialogues
  • Places
    • Europe
    • France
    • Ukraine
    • UK
    • International
  • Assets
    • Rural Dialogues
    • Letter from the Farm
    • Publications
    • Weekly Briefing
    • Monthly newsletter
    • All Articles
Home2013August

Month: August 2013

Main stories

Workshops in Wietze- not so silent before the storm

August 31, 2013 ARC

Excitement building at the camp before today’s protest outside Europe’s largest slaughterhause […]

Latest from EU Member States

What UK minister’s arguments reveal to a future voter

August 28, 2013 Peter Crosskey

Patterson pushes Tory ‘environmental’ agenda, including support for fracking […]

Latest from Brussels

Syngenta sues EU Commission over bees

August 28, 2013 ARC

Legal action being taken on recent EU decision to suspend the use of thiamethoxam […]

Latest from EU Member States

Port protest: Stop the madness of GM soy imports!

August 27, 2013 ARC

Farmers, students and enviromental activists block main supplier of intensive farming systems in Germany […]

Latest from EU Member States

Austrian company drafts Romania’s rural development

August 27, 2013 ARC

Austrian GBI Consulting to put place the country’s National Rural Development Program (NRDP) […]

Latest from EU Member States

Sign up to stop food speculation

August 26, 2013 Peter Crosskey

Play game, take action […]

Latest from EU Member States

Will 16,000 UK holdings lose Single Payments?

August 26, 2013 Peter Crosskey

UK committed to applying an “active farmer” test to ensure SPS payments in future […]

Latest from EU Member States

Germany ready to grill the agricultural industry!

August 23, 2013 ARC

This weekend: Nationwide barbeques to show an alternative way of eating is possible […]

Recent updates

Watch this moo-vie

August 23, 2013 Peter Crosskey

Glimpse into a different world […]

Latest from EU Member States

Chance for UK NGOs to make their case

August 22, 2013 Peter Crosskey

UK government using summer break to collect evidence for CAP implementation […]

Latest from EU Member States

UK children hungry for return to school lunches

August 21, 2013 Peter Crosskey

Children in hard-pressed urban families suffer from lack of free school meals during the holidays […]

Latest from EU Member States

Scandinavian company tightens grip in east Europe

August 20, 2013 ARC

With little scrunity, large-scale aquisition companies continue to buy up European land […]

Latest from EU Member States

Greenpeace urges further action on bees

August 9, 2013 Myrto Pispini

Petition calls for addtional bans, and a shift of funding away from destructive industrial agriculture […]

Latest from Brussels

EU Consultation on family farming: have your say

August 8, 2013 ARC

Public consultation opened ahead of EU conference, and UN International Year of Family Farming […]

Latest from EU Member States

Poland pushes for EU tobacco subsidies

August 5, 2013 ARC

Poland ups efforts […]

Posts navigation

1 2 »

Rural Resilience

Co-constructing proposals rooted in actions on the ground: Visit the project page.

Carbon Farming: Stakes, issues and alternatives

Mathieu Willard of ARC2020 performed a study on future carbon farming regulation. Download the report.

Seeds4All

The Seeds4All project wants to amplify voices and connect people involved in agroecological seed production at all levels. Find out more.

This Month’s Articles

Missed an article of ours? Or would like to read it again? Find all our articles from this month here. Or browse through our chronological archive that stores all articles here.

CAP Strategic Plans: Reforming the CAP in Wartime

ARC launches a report summarising the key aspects of the CAP Strategic Plans approval process that started a year ago. Take a look here.

Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture

Connecting farmers, advisors, policies, nature conservationists, and critical thoughts around the trajectories of digitalisation. Get involved!

ARC2020 Newsletter

Sign up for our monthly newsletter on agri-food, rural, environmental policy and practices around Europe.

War in Ukraine

While the situation is still a changing one, the war in Ukraine is already destabilising food security in Europe. Find all articles here.

Tweets by @ARC2020eu

Tweets by @ARC2020eu

Contributors wanted

Interested in European food, farming and rural policy matters? Do you have great writing skills and an ability to deliver content accurately and on time? Then you could be just what we’re looking for! Find out more here.

  • France | Cultivating Food Justice – It Takes A Village
    June 2, 2023
  • CAP Strategic Plan Denmark: The Art of Bypassing Fairness
    May 31, 2023
  • Nature Restoration Law News – Environment Committee Edging Towards Deal as EPP walks out
    May 31, 2023
  • Rural Realities | Networks Make Communities
    May 30, 2023
  • How will Environment Committee vote on Nature Restoration Law?
    May 30, 2023
  • Agri MEPs Vote to Reject the Nature Restoration Law – what’s next?
    May 23, 2023
  • Nature Restoration Law | Agri Committee’s Amendments Revealed – Reduced Targets, Increase Exemptions
    May 22, 2023
  • A Summer off? Commission flip flops on NGTs and Pesticides
    May 17, 2023
  • Reconnect With Beans – Take Our Food Power Back
    May 9, 2023
  • EPP Attacks Pesticide Regulation & the Nature Restoration Law
    May 8, 2023
  • Are NGTs the Cure to our Pesticide Addiction?
    May 2, 2023
  • Rural Realities | Testing Grounds for Wellbeing
    April 27, 2023
  • Strengthening Multifunctional Agriculture through Digitalisation: Insights from Europe and Japan
    April 27, 2023
  • Can the CAP and Carbon Farming Coexist?
    April 25, 2023
  • Sustainable Food Systems Law – EU Food Policy Coalition’s Recommendations for a Meaningful Transition
    April 25, 2023
  • Are We Ready to Amend the CAP SP to Fit For 55?
    April 19, 2023
  • The Michael Dower Award for European Rural Resilience
    April 19, 2023
  • Rural Resilience | A Collective Adventure
    April 17, 2023
  • GMO Deregulation Delayed – Where Are We At, Where Might We Be Going?
    April 13, 2023
  • France – Pesticides, Mega-Basins and Who Gets to do What
    April 13, 2023
  • Feeding Ourselves 2023 – Diversified Diversification in Action
    April 6, 2023
  • Feeding Ourselves 2023 | Fertile Ground for System Change
    April 5, 2023
  • Ukraine Joining the EU – An Elephant in the Room
    April 3, 2023
  • Nature Pushed to the Backburner – EU Round Up
    March 30, 2023
  • CAP post-2027: An Integrated Rural and Agricultural Policy – Part 2
    March 26, 2023
  • Contact
  • Imprint
  • Data Privacy

Agricultural and Rural Convention