In what has been an absolutely tumultuous week for the EU and its institutions, Jean Claude Junker has announced that the European Commission intends to approve the EU-Canada trade deal CETA without national parliament approval. […]
Following a long and fractious process, it appears the herbicide glyphosate will have its approval extended for 18 months, pending another agencies’ assessment. […]
ARC2020’s President Hannes Lorenzen gives us his thoughts after Brexit.
After the Brexit bombshell, ARC2020’s Peter Crosskey tells us how the UK farming community is reacting to vote to leave Europe. […]
Once paragraph four is taken into account, there is no role for the UK government to play in discussing the terms of the settlement that will be negotiated by the 27 remaining members of the European Union. Within a two-year window the UK will have to accept whatever is handed down by the remaining member states. […]
In the second installment of our farm income and diary crisis debate, Silvia Däberitz, managing director of the European Milk Board (EMB) tells us about how a Market Responsibility Programme could work. […]
CAPSELLA is both a useful and robust plant, and the project Collective Awareness PlatformS for Environmentally-sound Land management based on data technoLogies and Agrobiodiversity. ARC2020 Communications Manager Oliver Moore went to present. […]
ARC2020’s next debate will be on the collapse in farm incomes, including in particular the milk price collapse. The causes, the consequences and most importantly the ways out of the current untenable situation will be explored in this debate over the coming weeks. […]
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. […]
ARC NewsFlash June 2016 […]
Neither industrial nor subsistence farming work to the benefit of people and planet. Instead, diversified agroecological systems represent an improvement on both. A new report by IPES-Food reveals why. […]
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