In the second of his two articles on landgrabbing in Poland, Hans Wetzels reports on rural Poland, the rise of the populist right and on sociological critiques of populist claims. We see that landgrabbing, large corporations and EU policy impact some areas and sectors differently to others […]
IPES-Food hosted the EU Food and Farming Forum – #EU3F – the culmination of 3 years of work to create a Common Food Policy. The aim of EU3F is to co-create a Common Food Policy (CFP), following 3 years of multi-stakeholder, Brussels-based Policy Labs, a range of Local Labs in cities across Europe and work with 30 partner organisations. Helene Schulze of ARC reports on how it went.
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The European Commission has released its budgetary proposals for the CAP post-2020. Commissioner Hogan held a press conference to present his vision for the future CAP. Here’s a first look. […]
Stuart Meikle focuses on three main areas: society, farming and transitioning – all to soil-focused farming. The transition section includes seven suggestions for new farm support mechanisms. These suggestions focus on both payments and practices. […]
There has been unrest in rural communities across Poland for some years. Land prices have increased dramatically and despite a moratorium on foreign land purchasing, foreign entities have found a way to buy land. Polish farmers are despairing and protesting en masse. Hans Wetzels reports from Poland on land grabbing. […]
ARC2020 exclusive: Olivier De Schutter of IPES Food suggests “A ‘Common Food Policy’ for the EU offers a Plan B – a way to circumvent the limitations of the CAP debate and keep sight of the bigger picture: an urgently needed transition to sustainable food and farming policies.” […]
“We find great hope in the responses ecological grief is likely to invoke”. How – and where – do the authors find this hope, in what may be an entirely new geological era – the Anthropocene? […]
There is, it seems, a lot of eco-spin and not a lot of public goods substance in the MFF CAP proposals. Perspectives from IEEP, Annika Hedberg of EPC, Alan Matthews, EEB, Greenpeace EU, WWF EU, Birdlife Europe, AG MEPs and Bruegel are presented in this article.
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Cian Blaix tells us about the benefits that weeds and field margins provide in agriculture. These ecosystem services provides by weeds can be divided into three categories: cultural services, provisioning services, and regulating and maintenance services. […]
Roy Neilson and Blair McKenzie of the James Hutton Institute start with the consideration – what do we want from our soil? They move from here on a fascinating journey into the difference between soil texture and structure, into soil management, organic matter, and the impact of different practices on soil. […]
With Ireland edging towards reopening its organic farming scheme – closed since 2015 to new entrants, and closed in 2014 for a year too too – the context of organic farming within the overall agri-food sector is worth exploring. What would it mean for Irish agriculture in general to have a bigger, more vibrant organic sector? Particular attention is paid to the public goods of biodiversity and water quality. […]
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“A sustainable food system is not about reducing animal-product consumption so to ‘free-up’ land for direct-for-human-food plants: rather, it is about using the land now used for feeds for shipping to animals confined elsewhere, for grazing livestock – be they ruminants, pigs or poultry.” Stuart Meikle outlines his position. […]
So how fairly will the cash be distributed, if the Commission’s proposals on the MFF come to fruition? And what’s happening to agri-environmental measures? And the eviscerated Pillar 2? An initial analysis. […]
MFF | CAP may loose cash in the EU’s 2021-2027 plans for financial restructuring. And everybody is annoyed it seems, though for different reasons. Report and reactions from Copa, Farm Europe, Greenpeace, Birdlife, WWF. […]
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