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EU’s New Budget Plan Stuck in the Mud After Parliament Refuses to Plough Ahead

In a rare show of unity across political groups, the European Parliament has pushed back hard against the European Commission ...
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European Rural Parliament 2025 — Redefining Rurality in the Scottish Highlands

On October 20-23, over 400 rural delegates from over 40 European countries gathered in Inverurie in the north-east of ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Where The Untended Feeds Us – Cécile Gilquin’s “Tiers-Paysage”

All the places neglected by human beings”: this is the site of the Third Landscape (Tiers-Paysage) as defined by Gilles ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Passing the Pitchfork – Inside the EU’s new plan to get young farmers in our fields

The EU’s strategy for generational renewal, presented on Tuesday 21 October,  lays out ambitious plans to double the share of young farmers in Europe by 2040. Here’s what it promises, what’s missing, ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Commission’s Recommendations to CAP Strategic Plans: Glitters or Gold?

While the co-legislators and the trilogue negotiations at EU level continue to derail the future CAP away from the necessary reforms, in December 2020, the European Commission issued EU-wide and 27 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Bhutan | An Economy for Food Sovereignty and Organic Farming

In the final part of this short series on Bhutan, Hannes Lorenzen teams up with Adrian von Bernstorff to examine how the Bhutanese economy is increasingly geared toward supporting food sovereignty and ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Case for a Land Observatory in Ireland

Quite quickly, Ireland has seen the kind of land concentration more familiar in other parts of Europe. Various pressures are coming to bare on access to land, including the desires of the very wealthy ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Power of Diversity & Community-Managed Natural Farming – The Future of Agriculture Comes From India

Crop diversification to improve the soil microbiome is key to the approach of the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) movement. After soil to bread in Portugal, the Seeds4All ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Letter From The Farm | The More-Than-Human Magic of Transhumance

The transhumance is a privileged moment between shepherd and animal, an experience like no other. Both parties know what is expected of them, coming together as a ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

France | Democratising Food Policy – Tweaking The Financial Toolbox

In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Târ y donc a tori – Lessons on the Subversive Nature of Transmission, from a Stubborn Welshman

Saving seeds and preserving genetic resources goes hand in hand with the crucial question of legacy – of what we pass on to those who, after us, will work the land and feed the people. But legacy does ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The EU is Mulling a Seismic Budgetary Shift – What Would This Mean for Agri and Rural Areas?

The EU powers-that-be are currently in the midst of big talks on the EU’s €1.2 billion budget, known in EU-speak as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). And as usual, where there’s big bucks, ...