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The European Commission is preparing to tear up the architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in what could set ...
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 ...
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 ...
Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm - a 730 ha regenerative grassland farm in the Vistula delta of northern Poland. In his first Letter From The Farm, Mateusz Ciasnocha walks us through what's involved ...
In a new CAP that largely maintains the status quo, social conditionality emerges as one of the few truly innovative elements. But is it going to be a real game-changer? This new legislative tool has ...
The Czech CAP Stragic Plan has now been approved by the European Commission. Agricultural associations had been protesting against the proposed 23% share of direct payments. Terezie Daňková, a Czech ...
How can a top-down tool such as France’s Territorial Food Programmes help to democratise local food policy? How does the French infrastructure compare to Germany’s Food Policy Councils? In the best ...
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 ...
The transhumance is the pinnacle of Claire Jeannerat's farming year, bringing with it a seasonal shift in her family's home life. With the summer transhumance behind them, she sits down to catch her ...
Organic farming has long been hailed as the poster child for sustainable agriculture. But as the EU organic sector becomes increasingly industrialised, cracks are beginning to appear. How can we weed ...