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UK | Who Grew Your Clothes? Soil to Soil Textiles – Part 1

May 5, 2021 Ursula Billington

In the first of a two-part special on the soil-to-soil textiles movement, Ursula Billington unravels the disconnect with where our clothes come from, and spotlights some of the women working to pull the wool from our eyes. […]

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Where Soya has Scale – Ukraine, Big Ag and Land Concentration

March 2, 2020 Hans Wetzels

The FAO expects former Soviet countries like Ukraine to play an important role in feeding the world the coming decades.  But questions remain about who will benefit from the oncoming agricultural gold rush. […]

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Good governance is not red tape!

May 17, 2015 Peter Crosskey

Peter Crosskey gives his take on the Fair Trade Advocacy Office’s report “Who’s Got The Power, Tackling Imbalances in Agricultural Supply Chains”. […]

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French Farmers Torch Tax Office

September 22, 2014 ARC

Geopolitical strife is having an effect on the ground and in the vegetable producing fields of France… […]

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Leave it to Tesco: how the UK ignores food security

July 25, 2014 Peter Crosskey

UK overlooks its precarious food security with a GBP 21bn trade gap. Peter Crosskey investigates. […]

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10 reasons TTIP is bad for farming and food

July 10, 2014 Robert Pederson

Fancy some added chlorine, growth promoting hormones, animal byproducts and some extra GM feed? Welcome to the world of TTIP… […]

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TTIP: setting course for food production carve-ups?

June 6, 2014 Peter Crosskey

TTIP & local food double speak exposed by our UK correspondent Peter Crosskey […]

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Public Land Agencies: French SAFER model safe for Romania?

May 29, 2014 ARC

How will land sales be managed in Romania? Attila Szocs investigates. […]

Latest from Brussels

What might TTIP mean for organic farming and food?

May 2, 2014 Oliver Moore

Animal confinement and antibiotics are just two areas where a race to the bottom might work against organic standards on both sides of the Atlantic. […]

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TTIP: how fat cats can turn nasty

March 19, 2014 Peter Crosskey

Will the precautionary principle and other stalwarts of the European project be eroded by TTIP? […]

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TTIP EU advisory group meets for the first time

February 28, 2014 Peter Crosskey

Arc2020 UK Correspondent Peter Crosskey gives his prognosis of TTIP stakeholder engagement […]

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Talks on hold for EU US free trade agreement (TTIP)

January 22, 2014 ARC

Yesterday the European Commission announced a public consultation on the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) part of the TTIP. […]

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Romania’s resource rush is driving its peasants off their lands

December 9, 2013 ARC

Peasants and citizens protesting against fracking are confronted with increased police brutality […]

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Growing export of Polish poultry causing fears in the UK

December 3, 2013 Marek Kryda

Combined with a new EU regulation, growing Polish export of poultry is causing fear in the UK. […]

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Second round of secretive TTIP negotiations concluded

November 18, 2013 ARC

After a week of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Friends of the Earth states some key concerns […]

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Rural Resilience

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Carbon Farming: Stakes, issues and alternatives

Mathieu Willard of ARC2020 performed a study on future carbon farming regulation. Download the report.

Seeds4All

The Seeds4All project wants to amplify voices and connect people involved in agroecological seed production at all levels. Find out more.

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CAP Strategic Plans: Reforming the CAP in Wartime

ARC launches a report summarising the key aspects of the CAP Strategic Plans approval process that started a year ago. Take a look here.

Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture

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War in Ukraine

While the situation is still a changing one, the war in Ukraine is already destabilising food security in Europe. Find all articles here.

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    April 17, 2023
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