After a quarter-century of talks, the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is closer than ever to the finish line. But is it a done ...

After a long break, we are happy to be back with Brîndușa Bîrhala on her homestead in the west of Romania, where she has been ...

An unusual political creature celebrates twenty years of cooperation between a wide range of committed government officials, ...

Polish folk culture at the European Congress on Rural Renewal and Development, Poznan, May 2025. Photo: Hannes Lorenzen The Polish Rural Parliament launched earlier this month, holding its inaugural ...

The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is once again being trimmed down to size, with the Commission reaching for the shears in an attempt to cut back what it sees as an overgrown subsidy programme ...

After a long break, we are happy to be back with Brîndușa Bîrhala on her homestead in the west of Romania, where she has been busy growing and nurturing farm and family. Yet she remains as keen as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A well designed redistributive payment is an essential tool to reduce inequalities among CAP beneficiaries and farming systems. But as is often the case, the best design strongly depends on national ...