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Rural Resilience

Salon à la ferme | Les éleveurs entre chien et loup

April 29, 2022 Valérie Geslin

Dans le cadre du salon à la ferme, ARC 2020 s’est rendu dans l’une des 200 fermes participantes. Ce salon initié par la confédération Paysanne en partenariat avec le réseau des FADEAR permet à chaque citoyen d’échanger sur l’agriculture paysanne avec ceux qui la pratiquent. En Savoie, le GAEC de la Fontaine, geré par Marine HUAUX et Loïc PERRIAUX, a proposé un temps de rencontres autour des thématiques spécifiques à l’agriculture de montagne et notamment la présence du loup. […]

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Paroles de paysans | La liberté d’assumer ses choix 1

April 22, 2022 Valérie Geslin

La ferme de PITOUE se trouve à CAMPBON (44). Vincent, Julie et leurs trois salariés produisent des légumes sur une petite surface. Autour d’un café, dans un jardin où les oiseaux chantent et le soleil nous réchauffe, Vincent explique comment il envisage son activité et comment la question de l’alimentation donne du sens à son travail. Première partie d’une conversation avec Valérie GESLIN. […]

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Bulgaria’s CAP Strategic Plan: Backsliding on Nature and Biodiversity

April 20, 2022 ARC

The Society for Territorial and Environmental Prosperity (STEP) believes that Bulgaria’s CAP Strategic Plan must be corrected in order to be in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal, the EU’s Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategy. In this article, it highlights essential changes to be made, from targets and monitoring to measuring coherence and consistency. […]

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Letter From The Farm | A Year In Review

April 15, 2022 Mateusz Ciasnocha

We’re back on Ciasnocha Family Farm, where Mateusz is counting his blessings after a fruitful season of experimenting and investing on the farm. Luckily he found time to travel beyond the farm gate too, to seek and share knowledge, taking part in the UN Food Systems Summit, and COP26, where he championed regenerative agriculture and climate smart farming. Mateusz takes us through a memorable year on and off the farm.  […]

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UK | Hemp – Overgrowing the Regime part 2

April 8, 2022 Ursula Billington

For many growers it’s a plant with huge potential. For many policymakers it’s a dangerous drug. Despite a lack of tools, knowledge, infrastructure and support, woefully few routes to market, and suffocating restrictions on production and use of the crop, meet the British hemp growers who are ploughing ahead. Now a campaign of civil disobedience hopes to provoke policymakers to rethink regulations. Story by Ursula Billington. Second in a two-part series. […]

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UK | Hemp – Overgrowing the Regime part 1

March 23, 2022 Ursula Billington

Hemp is an ‘ecological wonder plant’ with almost endless potential as a sustainable raw fibre material, not to mention its intriguing nutrient profile and therapeutic benefits. It can even decontaminate radioactive soil. Yet in many jurisdictions, hemp production is hampered by baffling constraints. Where UK farming policy appears to bypass common sense, growers are taking the law into their own hands. […]

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Food Security: Are the CAP Strategic Plans up to the Task?

March 22, 2022 Mathieu Willard

Soaring grain prices, alongside gas, oil, fertilizers and pesticides, have sparked an unexpected debate on food production in the EU. A dependent and completely overexposed agricultural system has brought with it fear of food insecurity. In this article, we explore the tools that the commission is using to assess the potential of CAP Strategic Plans in reaching food security and propose our own analyses. […]

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A Loud Lobby for a Silent Spring

March 18, 2022 Hans van Scharen

It has emerged that the SUR – Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation – may not be announced next week, as initially planned. Rather, on Monday 21st a decision will be made to postpose or not. This is just one example of how the EU Farm to Fork strategy is in a perfect storm: the agribusiness lobby against sustainable policies is now reinforced by war in Ukraine. Op-ed by Nina Holland, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory. Hans van Scharen, press officer at Corporate Europe Observatory. […]

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French CAP Plan: What Opportunities for Change During the New 2022-27 Presidential Term?

March 11, 2022 Aurélie Catallo

With the war in Ukraine, the discourse around the CAP has shifted towards approving unambitious, business-as-usual strategic plans that serve the interests of agri-industrial block and lobby groups. As French elections are only a few weeks away, “Pour un autre PAC” (PUAP) outlined its positions on the opportunities that will arise throughout the next presidential mandate. […]

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More Food less Feed – Agriculture and the War on Ukraine

March 7, 2022 ARC

An appalling war on Ukraine has manifold impacts. The direct human cost is immense and incalculable. The impacts on the world’s agri-food trade and commodity systems will be huge. The 4 F’s  – fuel, feed, fertilizer and of course food are all heavily implicated. So what to do? Will Europe suspend progress on rerouting the food system towards more resilience, by doubling down into the worst aspects of these 4 F’s? Or can some aspects of a deeper iteration of food sovereignty emerge?  […]