Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Leaked Livestock Strategy Bets on Technofixes & Pulls From Industry Playbook

You can have your cake and eat it too, according to a leaked version of the EU’s upcoming livestock strategy, which leans on ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

The EU just opened its doors to new GMOs – but you won’t know if they’re on your plate

After years of intense lobbying, negotiation, and semantic gymnastics, it’s official. Europe is set to open its farm gates ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

A sad day for democracy and science

Yesterday the European Parliament voted to open farm gates – and by extension, our plates – to New Genetic Technologies (NGTs ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

What happens when our seeds go silent?

As EU lawmakers prepare to rewrite rules governing the production, exchange and sale of seeds, two opposing worlds collide.
Europe's Milk Crisis

Letter From The Farm | Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm

The Ciasnocha Family Farm team from left to right: Mirosław, Krzysztof, Marian, Paweł and Mateusz Ciasnocha Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm – a 730 ha regenerative grassland farm in the Vistula delta ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Agroecology has a PR problem. Here’s how we can solve it.

How accessible are conversations around transition? As we at ARC2020 deepen our longstanding work to support agroecology and food sovereignty, with a focus this year on the right to food in our Rural ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Can the CAP and Carbon Farming Coexist?

Carbon Farming, isn’t the CAP doing it already? All parameters of soils are deteriorating in the EU. Erosion, compaction, organic matter decline, pollution, loss of biodiversity and salinization are ...
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

CAP Environmental Derogations: What is the Impact on Food Security?

Back in March 2022, and following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the conservative branch of the EU parliament and agricultural ministers started to build on their narrative of at-risk food ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Beyond Agroforestry? An Introduction to Syntropic Farming

Observing the current discourse on Agroforestry, you may get the impression that this agricultural system would only suit the tropics. One widely used argument is that the processes in Agroforestry ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Upland Farmers Face Harsh Realities in Post-Brexit England | Part 1

In July 2023, Marianne Landzettel travelled to Northumberland, England to meet and interview four farm families. The resulting story portrays the difficulties upland farmers face as they navigate ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Future of Seeds: The Power Play Between Patents and New GMOs

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in plant breeding. But talks are stalling on one particularly sticky issue.