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Home2017August

Month: August 2017

Latest from EU Member States

Spain’s CAP debate unpacked – Part 1 with Marta Zygadlo

August 31, 2017 Marta Zygadlo

In this exclusive three part series, Marta Zygadlo – a lawyer in Spain working on food systems and food governance, explores the fascinating CAP debate in the Iberian country. Part one introduces the broad contours of the debate, including the Spanish government’s response document to the European Commission CAP consultation. […]

Latest from EU Member States

How To Better Preserve Mountain Grasslands

August 29, 2017 Ika Darnhofer

How can farmers, researchers and administrators work together to really preserve mountain grasslands, which are threatened with scrub encroachment and land abandonment? Dr. Ika Darnhofer outlines some findings from a recent paper Darnhofer and colleagues published. […]

Main stories

Towards a New Paradigm for Nature in the EU

August 20, 2017 ARC

Adopting rights of nature in EU law and policy would not only help to deal with current environmental issues but also induce a profound change in the way that nature in Europe is perceived and protected in the future, argues Mumta Ito. […]

Latest from Brussels

Itai-itai! Cadmium, Mineral Fertilizers & a Tale of Two Reports

August 6, 2017 Oliver Moore

“Itai-Itai!” is the name of a disease that emerged in the early 20th Century in Japan, due to cadmium poisoning. The EU has been trying, unsuccessfully, to reduce cadmium exposure in its citizens for years. The source of cadmium contamination of European soil? Mineral fertilizers. […]

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Long Read | How to Feed the World Without Killing the Planet?

August 2, 2017 ARC

The issue of “land sparing vs land sharing”: Kremen poses the familiar refrain – should we be as productive (in terms of yield) as possible, thus leaving more land for nature, or should we try to get farming and nature to work better together? […]

A Vision and Strategy for Rural Europe

For just and sustainable Europe, rural considerations have to be integrated into the plans for Covid-19 recovery, for CAP and for the EU Green Deal. Find the series 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.

Regenerative Agriculture

If we can put soils first in our farming and food policy: could regenerative agriculture be a reason for hope? Find all articles here.

Page française en construction

Coming soon: our project on rural resilience in France. Page française en construction.

Letter from the Farm

Who grows the food we eat? Who sows the seeds, tends the soil, picks the fruits and harvests the carrots? At ARC, we want to put faces to our food.

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    April 13, 2021
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    April 12, 2021
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    April 8, 2021
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    April 6, 2021
  • A Soil Scientist’s Perspective – Carbon Farming, CO2 Certification & Carbon Sequestration in Soil
    April 2, 2021
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    March 31, 2021
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    March 29, 2021
  • Letter From The Farm | Welcome To The Herdade
    March 24, 2021
  • A Rural Vision is Good – A Strategy and Immediate Action is Better
    March 21, 2021
  • Poland’s CAP plan – Weak Evidence Base, Business as Usual
    March 21, 2021
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    March 19, 2021
  • Ireland | Forty Shades Of Greenwashing? – Part 1
    March 16, 2021
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    March 15, 2021
  • Ireland | Forty Shades Of Greenwashing? – Part 2
    March 14, 2021
  • CAP Strategic Plans: Support to High-Nature-Value Farming in Bulgaria
    March 11, 2021
  • Damning Report on CAP Cash in Central and Eastern Europe Released
    March 9, 2021
  • Women Used To Dominate The Beer Industry – Until The Witch Accusations Started Pouring In
    March 8, 2021
  • Food Sovereignty, Romania and the Rising Far-Right
    March 8, 2021
  • Letter From The Farm | Three Years In: Realism And Planning For Utopia
    March 5, 2021
  • CAP, European Green Deal and the Digital Transformation of Agriculture
    February 28, 2021
  • UK | Waking Up To The Power Of Mushrooms
    February 25, 2021
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