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Latest from EU Member States
Trouble With The Neighbours: Living Next Door to an Agri-Giant
How do you get an organic farm off the ground with an agri-giant operating in the neighbouring field? Coming back to the land after a high flying career in New York City, Libor Kožnar expected the first year to be the hardest. What he didn’t expect was to find himself in a legal dispute with Agrofert, the sprawling agribusiness empire founded by the Czech prime minister. […]
Latest from key partners
Book Extract | Of Seeds and Land Seizures in Sicily
Platforming the dynamic ways rural Europe has responded the key challenges of this time, the new book by Forum Synergies is a call to get stuck in. Read the final chapter on how Sicilian youth have organised access to land for young people, how to confront political uncertainty, why to pay attention to seeds and the value of an experimental spirit. […]
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Extrait de livre | La société civile face à un pouvoir caché
Un extrait du livre “L’EUROPE RURALE EN MOUVEMENT – Voyage aux pays des transitions”, édité par Forum Synergies, réseau européen de la société civile. Le chapitre final, écrit par Helene SCHULZE, traite de la Sicile. […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 06/2020
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. […]
Latest from EU Member States
Scotland | Organic Farming, Agroforestry Best for Emissions Reductions
Researchers studied 37 different measures to help Scottish Agriculture reduce its carbon footprint. Here’s what they found. […]
Main stories
For Peat’s Sake – Paludiculture and a Wetter, Better CAP
Fully functional, healthy peatlands are the most effective long-term carbon store and sink on the planet. But what sort of state are they in, and what role for agriculture and CAP. And just what is Paludiculture? Jan Peters and colleagues assess the terrain. […]
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Wales | Joining the Real Food and Farming Conversation
The UK may have left the EU, but we will still maintain a focus on what’s happening there in food, farming and rural areas. In the spirit of cooperation, there will still be much to learn from each other. To this end, here’s a report from Wales on an event that’s emerged from the Oxford Real Farming Conference. […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 05/2020
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. […]
Latest from Brussels
LEAK – Farm2Fork Draft Action Plan
ARC2020 has obtained a draft copy of the EU’s Farm2Fork Strategy on Sustainable Food Systems Draft Action Plan, as of 13th January. Download it in full in the article. […]
Recent updates
What Happened when an Archaeologist Started Goat Farming?
” I could analyze Big Data sets, linking changes in the physical landscape to natural and cultural processes, but how on earth a farmer knows where, when and what to plant remained a mystery. ” And so began an archaeologist’s trip into goat farming… […]
The Week's Top Tweets
Tweets of the Week – 04/2020
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. […]
Latest from Brussels
Rural Europe: Which Way to Go?
With the ongoing work on the CAP reform, Europe will have to respond to a wide range of new challenges, reflecting the ambitions of the EU Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy. To this end, an event was held on 22nd January which took a rural perspective on what’s needed in the months and years ahead. […]
Latest from EU Member States
What Happened when a Tractor Farmer Protester came to WHES?
“I think we can take a white sheet of paper and draw a new picture for agriculture.” TIlo Von Donner of Landschafft Verbindung spoke at Soup and Talk, at WHES2020. So what else did he say? […]