Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

Podcast | Fields of Power, Episode 2: The Land Grab Chronicles

Here is episode 2! "The Land Grab Chronicles" moves from the aisles of a Hungarian supermarket into the hidden machinery of a ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Podcast | Fields of Power, Episode 1: Of Farms & Fortune

"Fields of Power" is a serial podcast that tells the story of how control over land in Hungary became a crucial terrain for ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

GMO-Free Seed Production Under Threat! Consequences of NGT deregulation on the ground

Without GMO-free seeds, a GMO-free agricultural and food industry is not possible. Yet there has been little discussion of ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Where The Untended Feeds Us – Cécile Gilquin’s “Tiers-Paysage”

“All the places neglected by human beings”: this is the site of the Third Landscape (Tiers-Paysage) as defined by Gilles Clément in his Manifesto of the Third Landscape. Cécile Gilquin was drawn to ...
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

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

Rural Europe Takes Action – Food System Lessons from Marburg

From left: Hannes Lorenzen (ARC2020); Ann-Marie Weber, Almut Busch and Merle Drusenbaum (kollektiv von MORGEN); and Marcus Nürnberger (AbL), pictured in a farmyard in southern Marburg-Biedenkopf in ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The EU’s New Big Budget Bombshell – Here’s What We Know So Far

Buckle up – July is shaping up to be a blockbuster month for the EU agrifood sector. In a double-whammy move, the European Commission is set to unveil not one but two major proposals on 16 July that ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Rise of a New Grain Alliance – Germany’s Free Bakers Sow the Seeds of Change

A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and legumes. ARC2020’s President Hannes Lorenzen reports on how farmers, bakers, ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Crafting the Collective – Tijs Boelens’ Vision for a Farmer-Led Grain Revival

If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must earn a fair price, processors must adapt their methods—and consumers must be able ...
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 ...