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Home2016January

Month: January 2016

Main stories

USDA TTIP Food Scenarios – the Gloves are off

January 31, 2016 Peter Crosskey

Agricultural sector by sector, the Economics Research Service (ERS) unit of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has examined TTIP. And the scales are balanced towards the US […]

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Behind Closed Doors – the Vulnerability of Big Meat. #LivestockDebate

January 30, 2016 Ben Lilliston

IATP’s Ben Lilliston exposes the vulnerability of big meat – from mass gassings and manure lagoons to climate change and human rights. Part of our #LivestockDebate Series. […]

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Livestock Will Save Us – A Regenerative Perspective. #LivestockDebate

January 25, 2016 Sheldon Frith

Livestock management is quietly undergoing a massive transformation. It began in the 1970s when Allan Savory developed Holistic Management, and from there many farmers have continued to refine the art of grazing. […]

Latest from EU Member States

WHES2016 – Making (Radio) Waves in Ireland

January 24, 2016 ARC

Wir Haben Es Satt (WHES2016) made the news in Ireland this year, via ARC2020’s Oliver Moore. Have a listen to what he said….. […]

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UK Outsourcing Food Footprint, study shows

January 23, 2016 Peter Crosskey

What are the implications of other countries producing the GHG emissions ‘for you’? In other words exporting ever more food to you, all the while racking up their GHG emissions total? Its good for your emissions tally, but is this fair? Peter Crosskey has more […]

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Let us Embrace Cooperation not Conflict. #LivestockDebate

January 18, 2016 Frank Armstrong

In the second in our livestock debate contributions, Frank Armstrong considers the Anthropocene, the inherent violence in meat and the knock on effects of this. […]

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We Are Fed Up – & we showed it!

January 18, 2016 ARC

Thousands of farmers, activists and concerned citizens converged on Berlin on Saturday to say – once again – We Are Fed Up with agro-industry! […]

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Calculating livestock’s environmental footprint is complex – but other questions are simple. #LivestockDebate.

January 17, 2016 Oliver de Schutter

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. […]

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We Are Fed Up – Food, Climate & Rights on Berlin’s Streets

January 16, 2016 ARC

It is high time that our food movement connects with cross-cutting issues that will define the future we want. Pavlos Georgiadis analyses the intersectional, cross-cutting rights issues that brought him to Berlin for Wir Haben Es Satt […]

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How Politics and Power Play with Pesticides in France

January 13, 2016 Peter Crosskey

Conversion to agroecology: France’s hopes for environmental salvation is a new 28 page ARC2020 document on efforts in France to move farming from pesticides to agroecological methods. […]

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#LivestockDebate – Climate Destroyer or Saviour via Soil?

January 10, 2016 ARC

We’re hosting a written debate on livestock and how it contributes – or otherwise – to a sustainable diet in the fullest sense. Join us! […]

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Rural Manifesto for Equality Launched in UK

January 8, 2016 Oliver Moore

Equality in the Countryside: a rural manifesto for the parliamentary opposition. A manifesto for rural equality launched by the Landworker’s Alliance at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2016. […]

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Why are so few people talking about soil as a climate change solution?

January 4, 2016 ARC

Transitioning to organic regenerative agriculture practices ‘offers the best, and perhaps our only, hope for averting a global warming disaster.’ […]

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Farming’s Markets, Meadows & Movements.

January 4, 2016 Peter Crosskey

Aurélie Trouvé of ATTAC France released a book last year called Le Business Est Dans Le Pré (Business Is In The Meadow, subtitled How Agribusiness Is Drifting Into Crisis). ARC2020’s Peter Crosskey tells us about it. […]

Nos campagnes en résilience

Cultiver, habiter et vivre en respect des Hommes et de la nature.

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.

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.

Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture

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

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.

ARC2020 Newsletter

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Rural Europe Takes Action

ARC2020 and Forum Synergies launched a book titled “Rural Europe Takes Action – No more business as usual” Have a read.

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