Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

What Seeds for Tomorrow?

The Seeds4All project has long been working to understand how the EU regulatory framework on seeds and cultivated ...
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 ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

EU Budget: From Green Deal to Raw Deal for the Environment

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

European Days of Action 2025 – United for Food Justice

Food Justice. The European Days of Action, this year in its eighth edition, put a spotlight on the need to shift power away ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Letter From The Farm | Acorn, The Permitted Fruit

Today is World Acorn Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a love letter to acorns, an unsung superfood! We are ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Commission’s Recommendations to CAP Strategic Plans: Glitters or Gold?

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Impact of CAP Beyond the EU – A Closer Look on Soya Imports and Milk Product Exports

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a policy of the European Union that mainly focuses on agriculture and the food system in each Member State. However, the CAP also has a decisive influence on ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Czech CAP Strategic Plan – Redistributive Payments and the Counter-Productive Tension Between Small and Big

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Case for a Land Observatory in Ireland

Quite quickly, Ireland has seen the kind of land concentration more familiar in other parts of Europe. Various pressures are coming to bare on access to land, including the desires of the very wealthy ...
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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

CAP Environmental Derogations: What is the Impact on Food Security?

Back in March 2022, and following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the conservative branch of the EU parliament and agricultural ministers started to build on their narrative of at-risk food ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Letter From The Farm | Strong Roots for a Surer Future

Welcome to Trikorfo farm. Photo: Hannes Lorenzen Vasilis and Lukas Mylonas. Photo: Hannes Lorenzen Greek mythology is still alive in Τρίκορφο. Vasilis Mylonas, born in the village as the fifth of ...