Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

France | The Ag Coop that Shares More than Machinery

What if, instead of going into debt to invest in their farms, farmers came together to pool equipment? What if, instead of ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

CAP | EU Watchdog Gears Up To Fight For Fairness in Future Farming Policy

The EU’s watchdog is ready for the fight over fairness in the EU’s future farming policy just as NGOs launch another round of ...
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

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.
Europe's Milk Crisis

Op-Ed | Farmland Sees the Less Sunny Side of Germany’s Solar Transition

Germany’s energy transition is affecting its land market, driving investment and increasing concentration of land ownership. In this op-ed, Anne Neuber of Netzwerk Flächensicherung, an alliance ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Does EU Policy Have An Appetite For Local Food?

Across Europe, small-scale farmers are essential actors in local food provisioning, yet they face structural barriers to accessing public support. While industrial agriculture continues to receive the ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Letter From The Farm | Neighbours, Not Numbers: How Local Feeds Us All

In a farming system that demands more than it gives, Marie Halicki finds that relationships, not yields, nourish resilience, sovereignty, and sanity. There’s plenty of time to think behind the wheel ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Re-Sowing the Seeds of Connection in Switzerland, Part I – Nurturing What We Have

In early June, the Seeds4All project team was invited by artist Alexandra Baumgartner to contribute to the fifth edition of Food Culture Days, a multidisciplinary biennial organised in Vevey, ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Op-Ed | Europe Must End The Double Standards In Toxic Pesticides Exports

A number of hazardous pesticides which are banned in the EU are freely manufactured and exported to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU ...
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

Bosnia and Herzegovina | Who Owns Agricultural Land?

“Who owns agricultural land” is never an easy question. In post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, multi-layer governance adds another dimension of complexity. Farmland is disappearing as landscapes—and the ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Spilling Europe’s Dirty Secrets: Uncorking the Toxic Trade in Banned Pesticides

Pesticides deemed too toxic for Europe are still being produced here and sold abroad to be sprayed on fields where farm workers live, work, and raise their children – but these are also fields that ...