Year: 2022

Rural Resilience

Nos campagnes en résilience | C’est à nous d’inventer le changement social 2

February 4, 2022 Valérie Geslin

Marion et Benjamin sont les 2 associés du GAEC La Ferme du Buis Sonnant à Plouguernével (22). L’élevage des porcs et des vaches laitières, la transformation sur place … mais aussi les réflexions autour du changement social. En allant à la rencontre de ces acteurs ruraux qui expérimentent la transition socio-écologique, l’équipe Nos Campagnes en Résilience souhaite valoriser leurs propositions. Nous vous invitons donc à découvrir la deuxième partie de leur rencontre avec Valérie Geslin.  […]

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France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 2

February 4, 2022 Valérie Geslin

Far from the stereotype of the solitary farmer, Marion and Benjamin make a conscious effort to get farming out of its bubble. It’s the only way they’ll shift mentalities, they believe. The two farmers, who are associates in a cooperative mixed farm in Brittany, also open up on the thorny issues of unpaid activism, taking holidays as a farmer, and feeding the community versus feeding the world. Part 2 of an interview with Valérie Geslin. […]

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Time To Rethink ‘Plant-Based’ – Part 1

February 1, 2022 Stuart Meikle

‘Plant-based’ is the new ‘sustainable’. Marketed as the remedy to many of our crises, on closer inspection the label means little. And worse, rather than helping us to respect planetary boundaries, it embeds a belief that we can continue to consume because plants are a forever-giving source of food, fibre and fuel. In the first of a two-part series, Stuart Meikle debunks the reductionist virtues of ‘plant-based’ products. […]

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In Full – Agroecology Europe Barcelona Letter

January 26, 2022 ARC

Here is the full text of Agroecology Europe’s Barcelona Letter on Agroecology. Policy and investments, inclusion and participation, rural-urban connections, pricing, breeding, technology and transition all feature in this call out for a different approach to how we the people do farming, land and food. […]

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Letter From The Farm | Calving, Lambing – and Timing

January 21, 2022 Shane Casey

We’re back on Shane Casey’s farm in Co. Clare, Ireland, where winter is an active period of herding livestock that are outwintered amidst the limestone pavements of The Burren. There’s decisions to be made about when to bring ewes inside to lamb, and cows home to calve. Considerations of animal welfare, economic viability, and conservation grazing are all factors in determining when the time is right. […]

Events

Event | Soup and Talk 2022 on January 22nd

January 17, 2022 ARC

The Soup & Talk 2022 good food and good farming slam is happening via Zoom on Saturday, January 22nd from 17:00 to 20:00 CET.  The much-loved Soup and Talk event traditionally takes place at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin, with inspiring agri-food initiatives and hot soup welcoming hundreds of freezing demonstrators in out of the cold after Europe’s biggest protest for a better food system. […]

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France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 1

January 14, 2022 Valérie Geslin

Marion and Benjamin are pig and dairy farmers on a community funded farm in Brittany, France. Agricultural engineers by training, they have reverse engineered the process of farming to make sure they get to take time off and make a decent living. In part 1 of a fascinating conversation, Valérie Geslin, project coordinator for Nos Campagnes en Résilience, unpacks their experiments in rural resilience. […]

Rural Resilience

Nos campagnes en résilience | C’est à nous d’inventer le changement social 1

January 14, 2022 Valérie Geslin

Marion et Benjamin sont les 2 associés du GAEC La Ferme du Buis Sonnant à Plouguernével (22). L’élevage des porcs et des vaches laitières, la transformation sur place … mais aussi les réflexions autour du changement social. En allant à la rencontre de ces acteurs ruraux qui expérimentent la transition socio-écologique, l’équipe Nos Campagnes en Résilience souhaite valoriser leurs propositions. Valérie Geslin, coordinatrice du projet, reflète sur (encore) une belle rencontre en Bretagne.  […]