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Farmers’ Market in Sofia – Farmers meet Consumers

August 29, 2014 ARC

Ivaylo Popov tells us about his  “awesome  walk through a small farmers’ market in Sofia” and can’t wait to to tell us more about it. I just came back from an awsome  walk through a small farmers market in Sofia and can’t wait to to tell you more about it. It is the farmers market, organised once a week by the environmental association Za Zemiata and other groups and organizations. It is supported by a project of Za Zemiata – “Making the CAP work for Society and the Environment”. Its aim is to show that the Common Agricultural Policy could and should support not only the high intensive food industry, but also the small-scale clean food production and sustainable short food supply chains. This farmers market is great evidence of short supply chains in action. Every week it is visited by around 800 consumers and more than 20 producers are offering their produce there. The market is a great place in the city center, where organic farmers meet their customers face to face. I arrived at 12:30, an hour and a half after […]

ARC2020’s new agroecology project

July 14, 2014 ARC

Bulgaria | Czech Republic | Hungary | Poland | Romania | Spain | UK | Germany The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post 2013 has been agreed. It introduces measures to manage natural resources, as well as the development of rural areas. For this to happen depends on how national implementation is carried out, and how member states use the instruments offered through the policy. The big challenge is to offer rural actors in different member states the right information to make this policy work. It is also important that citizens are informed and supporting these new changes. Za Zemiata (Bulgaria), Hnutí Duha (Czech Republic), Magyar Természetvédok Szövetsége (Hungary), Amigos de la Tierra (Spain), Green Institute (Poland), Friends of the Earth Europe and ARC2020 have started an information and communication campaign to help spread information about the issue. What will be happening in these countries over the next few months? Bulgaria Bulgaria joined the EU only in 2007 and some of the CAP measures to ensure the sustainable management of natural resources are not well known to farmers. Over the past years there has been also a trend of intensifying farming and of young […]

Newsflash

ARC Newsflash – April 2014

April 1, 2014 ARC

Dear friends and supporters, As Europe has thawed, the next months will be very exciting for our 2000m² project. Last Sunday, we planted seeds on the field in Berlin, and are looking forward to growing both the representation of the global situation, and the project itself.  More on that below. A few other highlights from March on ARC2020.eu: UK cooperative in fire sale of its farms: The UK’s food and farming sector is reeling with shock and disbelief as “Britain’s largest farmer”, The Cooperative, has put its farms up for sale. Ukraine’s Land Struggle with Russia: If 1 out of 3 agro-ecological zones would be removed from Ukraine’s possession, it would cause enormous consequences for farmers. Poland short-changes its organic farmers: Organic farming and agri-environmental schemes will not grow under current Rural Development plans. UN Rights to Food expert demands radical change: Olivier De Schutter warned that current food systems must be redesigned. The irony of national markets: cheap exports expensive imports: How our convoluted food system destroys food sovereignty. TTIP: how fat cats can turn nasty: Will the precautionary principle and other stalwarts […]