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July is shaping up to be a blockbuster month for the EU agrifood sector. In a double-whammy move, the European Commission is ...
A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and ...
Rural voices still seem to go unheard in EU policymaking. The Rural Pact Coordination Group proposes a new tool for rural ...
If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must earn a ...
EU agri-food products protected by quality schemes can face counterfeiting and usurpations in third countries, resulting in significant economic losses for EU producers. The same can happen in the ...
The CAP has shapeshifted significantly thanks to a series of exemptions and, crucially, a fundamental change in its regulation in 2024. But how have these changes impacted the green architecture of ...
Swiss farmer Ernst Götsch has developed a variant of agroforestry called syntropic farming. So what is it - what's different about it - and can it be part of the regenerative agriculture movement?
In March 2021, the German Agriculture Ministers' Conference and the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture agreed on important cornerstones for the country's CAP Strategic Plan. In his preliminary ...
Nos campagnes en résilience » à Plessé (44) a rassemblé des agriculteurs, des cuisiniers, des élus, des analystes, des militants ruraux, des bénévoles et d'autres personnes issues des mouvements ...
Farming bounded by biological boundaries This essay, including its earlier ‘ soil-carbon primer ’, covers the complex issue of how to create the sustainable agricultural systems that can work within ...
Ukraine is on our screens every day. Still the countryside and its people mainly appear either as victims of war or as soldiers – not as citizens, workers or farmers. When it comes to its vast swaths ...
Are we beginning to see carbon – the fundamental building block of all life – as a pollutant? Instead of demonising carbon as a cause of climate breakdown, we need to restore balance in the natural ...