research Archives - Agricultural and Rural Convention

How is Organic Farming Both Better and Worse for the Climate?

April 23, 2019 ARC

How does some research find organic to be better for fighting climate change, and other research finds the opposite? An explainer. […]

Dishing the Dirt on the Living Agriculture Meet

March 25, 2019 Natasha Foote

Our Mazi farmer, Natasha Foote, joined the first International Meeting For Living Agriculture in Paris. It aims to forward agroecological transition by facilitating exchanges between people working in this field in diverse ways, in different areas and on all sorts of scales. Here is what she took back to the farm. […]

CAP – “Stabilizing the Status Quo” Say SURE-Farm Researchers

March 11, 2019 Steve Gillman

New research into the resilience of CAP and national agricultural policies have found a bias ‘stabilising the status quo’ rather than encouraging farming to adapt to the myriad of challenges it faces. […]

How To Better Preserve Mountain Grasslands

August 29, 2017 Ika Darnhofer

How can farmers, researchers and administrators work together to really preserve mountain grasslands, which are threatened with scrub encroachment and land abandonment? Dr. Ika Darnhofer outlines some findings from a recent paper Darnhofer and colleagues published. […]