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UN Right to Food expert demands radical change
Olivier De Schutter warned that current food systems must be redesigned. […]
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Food Sovereignty, Romania and the Rising Far-Right
The many challenges faced by Eco Ruralis and the food sovereignty movement in Romania are now compounded by the presence of the far-right in parliament. A recent study by Anna Hajdu and Natalia Mamonova discusses obstacles and opportunities. […]
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We Are Fed Up – Food, Climate & Rights on Berlin’s Streets
It is high time that our food movement connects with cross-cutting issues that will define the future we want. Pavlos Georgiadis analyses the intersectional, cross-cutting rights issues that brought him to Berlin for Wir Haben Es Satt […]
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“Food is our Right not a Commodity”
A forum and a demonstration for a living countryside and peasant agriculture in Spain […]
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Rights to Food – FAO milestone
Right to Food adopted as an integral part of UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Committee on Food Security policy […]
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Reconnect With Beans – Take Our Food Power Back
If we all agree to take back the power over our food, what do we need? Helping to frame the discussion at the Global Bean Seed Festival, Xavier Hamon, artisan cook and partner of the Rural Resilience project, encourages us to re-cultivate hundreds of varieties of grains and pulses, take back land, win political mandates, and most of all, support those who work for the living world, day after day. Words : Xavier Hamon. […]
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Sustainable Food Systems Law – EU Food Policy Coalition’s Recommendations for a Meaningful Transition
As the European Commission prepares for the launch of its proposal on the Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Legislative Framework in late September, the EU Food Policy Coalition has published a joint report laying out clear policy recommendations for the SFS Law to ensure a meaningful transition to sustainable food systems across the European Union. Summary and report to download here. […]
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Meet the Movement Linking Civil Society with Philanthropy for Food System Transformation
In Berlin, on the eve of the Wir haben es satt! demonstration at which thousands marched for a socio-ecological agricultural future, two of ARC’s founders, Benny Haerlin and Hannes Lorenzen, sat down with Marinke van Riet to discuss her work as “chief weaver” of Healthy Food Healthy Planet. Healthy Food Healthy Planet is an intersectoral coordination effort that connects civil society actors with funders in the transition to healthy, just and sustainable food environments. […]
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Part 2 | Ireland, Food Security & Feed(ing the World) – Ireland and the Archipelago
Part two of four from Stuart Meikle on Ireland, food security and feed(ing) the world delves into the relationship Britain and Ireland have with each other – the two main islands of the archipelago referred to in the article’s title. Part one (see below) focused on Ireland, food security and nitrogen supply. Here, trade, animal feed, meats, durable forms of diary all feature. […]
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Ireland, Food Security & Feed(ing the World) – part 1
In these challenging times ‘food security’ has returned to the agenda in what was assumed to be the well-fed countries of the World. That includes in Ireland, even though it is ranked first in the Economist’s Global Food Security Index. To inform this debate ARC2020 will present an article series – an extended op-ed – from Stuart Meikle. […]
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Food Security versus Sustainability in Europe during the war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has intensified the debates about the future of agriculture in the EU. As the majority of member states scale back their ambitions for environment-friendly reforms to increase food production, Natalia Mamonova discusses whether sustainability will be sacrificed. […]
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Reversing Rule and Exception – Transformative New Integrated Policy for Rural Agri & Food presented in European Parliament
A book filled with “extraordinary examples of ongoing transformations of our rural world” was launched in the European Parliament this week. Key political stakeholders – including European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, Isabel Estrada Carvalhais, and Dacian Ciolos – agreed on the need to start to build a process to explore and develop ideas contained therein- including a radical new Regulation. So what are these ideas? […]
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CAP Strategic Plans and Food Security: Fallow Lands, Feeds, and Transitioning the Livestock Industry
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has sparked a debate on food security in Europe. Here, we set things straight on the derogation to allow production on fallow land, analyse the state of grain production and use as feed in Europe and reflect on what it entails for the future of the livestock sector. […]
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France, Food Sovereignty and Feed(ing the World)
In a roundup of recent news, Ashley Parsons find that words and personnel can change, but business-as-usual can keep replying on the institutions to bail them out – no strings attached. Whatever the level of exposure and risk, whatever the talk of transitioning away from dependencies on agri-industrial inputs, money, it seems, will always be found for keeping the show on the road, whatever the crises. […]