Local products and Community Supported Agriculture in Czech Republic. What products are distributed through these routes? how many farmers and consumers participate? And how does CAP support of hinder those developments? Hnutí DUHA – Friends of the Earth Czech Republic – tell us more. […]
Back in 1965, a Japanese Consumer Co-Operative Union initiated the next level of connectivity between producers and consumers. […]
Joined up thinking about Agroecology, Water and Resilience. Meet the team at Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology and Food Security. […]
No real greening for the Emerald Isle as Ireland opts for everything but any significant environmental improvements. […]
ARC NEWSFLASH AUGUST 2014 Dear friends and supporters, Welcome to our August newsletter! We’ve been busy, working away especially on TTIP and agroecology over the last month. In many ways, these two strands of the agri-food world are poles apart. One deals with corporations on both sides of the Atlantic, and their cronies, trying to make labour, environment, health and safety rules weaker. The other presents solutions for making agri-food, rural communities and the living world better. Can you guess which is which? :-) Both these areas, as well as a shocking story on farm labour from Romania, a positive story on pesticides and people power, as well as lots of useful dates for upcoming events, make up the core of this August newsletter. More highlights from our recent posts include: Leave it to Tescos: UK food imports food security Permaculture: Green Solutions in the Greek Countryside Pioneer’s GM Maize 1507: the full history in Europe WWOOFing in Romania Don’t forget we have a regularly updated newsticker (recent updates include TTIP, bees, ‘fat tax’, pesticides & biodiversity), the 2000m² project, and we are very active on […]
A cautionary tale on TTIP, Endocrine Disrupting pesticides and the precautionary principle. […]
Our correspondent in Greece Myrto Pispini takes a closer look at this shocking case […]
Who pays for pesticide research and why? Peter Crosskey investigates. […]
How does the UK regulate pesticide use? Peter Crosskey takes a closer look. […]
Arc2020’s correspondent Myrto Pispini discovers more about permaculture in Greece. […]
The business-as-usual global warming ‘lukewarmist’ is no longer at the DEFRA helm. via Peter Crosskey. […]
From a small recent start WWOOF Romania grows from strength to strength. Derek Freitas of Eco Ruralis reports. […]
Crucial web event happening on TTIP and antimicrobial resistance 24th July. […]
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 […]
There are three typical ways to define agroecology: as a set of farming practices, as a scientific discipline and as a social movement. […]
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