Controling crop price volatility in the US
National Farmers Union proposal to stabilize grain prices and allow farmers to plan for the long term […]
National Farmers Union proposal to stabilize grain prices and allow farmers to plan for the long term […]
Despite Romanian winter conditions […]
Diabrotica debate […]
Europe: increasing pressure on agricultural land and food production. […]
Dear friends of the ARC!Happy new year to you all and welcome to the January issue of the ARC NEWSFLASH! ARC has started the new year with a bang. Our highlight was hosting a debate with Dacian Cioloş and a number of civil society organisations on January 20th in Berlin. The lively question and answer session which ensued gave different groups a chance to raise their concerns directly with the EU Agriculture Commissioner.Encouraged by the constructive debate, the Commissioner announced that he will organise a conference with civil society in July this year in Brussels to continue the dialogue. The following day (still in Berlin), members and organisations from the ARC network attended the ‘Wir haben es Satt‘ demonstration which saw a crowd of 23,000 consumers, farmers, beekeepers, environmental and animal rights activists,and developmental groups gather in front of Germany’s government offices to demand an end to industrial farming practices.January was also the 50th anniversary of the CAP. On 23rd January, ARC issued a press release with our signatories, Friends of the Earth Europe and IFOAM EU Group. After 50 years of support for a failing system, we called upon […]
6th European Organic Congress PR […]
Several hundred protesters take to the streets of Warsaw following large decline in honey bees […]
France media picks up NGO demands at the Salon de l’Agriculture in Paris […]
As biodiversity suffers in the face of farm lobby interests, BirdLife asks for a greening of whole CAP […]
EIP must recognise the innovative potential of organic farming […]
Five people arrested […]
Rural development and direct payments […]
Mario Catania and Bruno Le Maire find convergence on several issues during meeting in Italy […]
YPLD conference […]
Late implementation of the Welfare of Laying Hens Directive […]
Agricultural and Rural Convention