The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 18/2020
Our weekly Twitter round up of great content from our kindred network: a Friday treat for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy what we’ve found for you on twitter. […]
Month: April 2020
Latest from Brussels
Controversial Fast-Track Extends Current CAP for Two Years
The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee voted Tuesday to allow for the extension of the current CAP system for up to two years. Critics however claim little time is saved in reality, while progressive change has now been stalled for longer. […]
Main stories
How Transparent and Inclusive is the Design Process of the National CAP Strategic Plans?
After the first steps made towards designing the National CAP Strategic Plans, we analyses the transparency and stakeholders inclusivity in six selected Member States: France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Poland. […]
Latest from EU Member States
Coping with Covid – Struggles and Resilience of Small-Scale Cheesemakers in Italy
For Raflazz farm resilience is a way of life. The Adami family has been making artisanal cheese for generations here in the hills of Piedmont. When Italy shut down its restaurants on March 9, the farm had nowhere to sell its cheeses and meat. In another brutal blow, receipts from the farmhouse restaurant and B&B disappeared overnight. Raflazz is adapting fast, but like many small-scale farms it will need life support to survive the lockdown. Emanuele Amo reports from Piedmont. […]
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European Food Forum: Industry’s Brand New ‘Lobby Platform’ in the European Parliament
If you can’t beat them, join them. Perhaps this was the thinking behind consultants and lobbyists working for the agrochemical and food industry, who have joined the newly created European Food Forum, a so-called MEP-industry forum. In this article written by Hans van Scharen, Nina Holland and Martin Pigeon of Corporate Europe Observatory, the role of the European Food Forum is examined in detail. […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 17/2020
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Latest from EU Member States
Changing the Way Children Learn About Farms & Food
What role can education play in the green transition? Educational ecologist Ans Rossy argues that farms can bridge the growing gap between city children and food, farming and nature, and thus pave the way to a sustainable economy. In an interview with Hans Wetzels for ARC2020, Rossy makes a case for forging connections between farms and schools to help the next generation understand the interdependence of ecosystems, to make learning more relevant, and to open up economic opportunities for farmers. […]
Latest from Brussels
Commission Announces Return of Private Milk Storage
The EU Commission announced today private storage aid for meat and dairy, flexibility for market support programmes in wine, fruits and vegetables, olive oil, apiculture and the EU’s school scheme (milk, fruits and vegetables) and derogation from some EU competition rules in milk, flowers and potatoes. […]
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Coping with Covid19 – Disruption, Protectionism and a People’s Agroecology
While it can feel undeniably overwhelming at times, its also important to remain informed and focused on how we can achieve better food, farming and a rural space – even in our new context. Much of the last month has been rightly focused on going back to basics – food, shelter, medicine. If we must go back to basics, and refocus on primary production, so be it. So what does this mean? […]
Latest from Brussels
IPES-Food on Covid-19: Protect the Vulnerable, Build Resilience, Stay Vigilant
The Covid-19 pandemic has put our food systems to the test, exposing the vulnerabilities of an unsustainable status quo. In a communiqué released on Tuesday, IPES-Food slams shortsighted solutions to the crisis. Calling for a paradigm shift to agroecological farming, it says now is the time to transform the seeds of change into the foundations of a resilient new food system. Industrial food systems are being peddled as solutions when in fact they are the problem. Louise Kelleher reports. […]
Latest from key partners
Whoever does not have Peasants, Should find Them: The Food Injustice of Pandemics
European Coordination of Via Campesina’s call to join the#StayHomeButNotSilent call to action on April 17 to commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle, reiterates the fundamental role of peasants in feeding people, even in the most difficult times. It takes a crisis for alternative food systems to emerge. Is our food system, dominated by trade ideology instead of human rights, ready to face pandemics? […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 16/2020
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Latest from Brussels
40 Organisations Demand April Publication for Farm to Fork, Biodiversity Strategies
39 civil society organisations, including ARC2020, have come together to demand that the EU’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies remain on schedule for April publication. […]
Latest from key partners
Coping with Covid19 – Mutual Aid and Local Responses in a time of Coronavirus
There is a spectrum of possible responses to this unfolding crisis. Here we’ll briefly introduce some small and also larger mutual aid initiatives, or local and community responses to covid19 and what it brings out in people – from street to municipal levels, from rural to border areas. […]
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What will the World be like after Coronavirus? Four Possible Futures
Where will we be in six months, a year, ten years from now? I lie awake at night wondering what the future holds for my loved ones. My vulnerable friends and relatives. I wonder what will happen to my job, even though I’m luckier than many: I get good sick pay and can work remotely. I am writing this from the UK, where I still have self-employed friends who are staring down the barrel of months without pay, friends who have already lost jobs. The contract that pays 80% of my salary runs out in December. Coronavirus is hitting the economy badly. Will anyone be hiring when I need work? […]