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NewsFlash December 2015

Hello and welcome to our December newsletter! The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – better known as COP21  – is underway in Paris. As we saw in the run up, with the Bonn talks we covered recently, nation states mostly argue their corner and real ambition is quite low: 2.7 degrees Celsius warming might be an optimistic outcome of the COP21, based on Bonn – and that’s hardly enough to prevent runaway climate change, when 2 degrees is the recognised ceiling. Agri-food is implicated in both Climate Change mitigation and adaptation. We’vesharpened our focus on these plus on regenerative agriculture, on soil, land use change and a host of other factors. In short we believe there are ways food production can become truly sustainable as outlined by IPES and others over recent months. This involves climate change and other food security, agroecology and food sovereigntydimensions, as we explore in numerous posts on our site. Let’s all work towards a real, sustainable agri-food sector, one that can hep us cope with […]

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3 Speaker Tours

ARC2020 Speakers’ Tour aim to raise awareness of particular issues related to the CAP reform. ARC2020 has now organised three tours, bringing speakers from around the globe to Europe for a series of talks, debates and discussions in cities across the EU. The International Impact of the CAP (June 2012) In June 2012 three dairy farmers, Hellen Yego from Kenya, Joe Borgerding of Minesota, USA, and Sieta van Keimpema, of the Netherlands presented the complenting perspectives of “3 farmers from 3 continents” at discussion events in Prague, Brussels, Berlin, Bremen, Paderborn and the Northern German countryside. The tour was organised in collaboration with Misereor and Meine Landwirtschaft.  Video link Article from Generation 112 Fatal Soya – The Mothers of Ituzaingó (September 2012) In September 2012 two campaigners from Argentina travelled to Europe to raise awareness of their ongoing fight against the aircraft spraying of Monsanto’s Roundup (Glyphosate) on Argentina’s soybean fields. Goldmann Prize winner, Sofia Gatica along with her colleague Maria Godoy visited Brussels, Berlin, Mainz, Kassel, Krakow and Polish countryside, Bucharest, Malaga, Cordoba (Spain), […]