PRESS RELEASE
Diabrotica debate […]
Diabrotica debate […]
A new organic farming Scheme for Ireland. […]
Swiss EU negotiations […]
Irish primary school project […]
Europe: increasing pressure on agricultural land and food production. […]
Before attempting to feed developing countries, France should cease to be fed by them – Jacques Berthelot […]
Dear friends of the ARC!Happy new year to you all and welcome to the January issue of the ARC NEWSFLASH! ARC has started the new year with a bang. Our highlight was hosting a debate with Dacian Cioloş and a number of civil society organisations on January 20th in Berlin. The lively question and answer session which ensued gave different groups a chance to raise their concerns directly with the EU Agriculture Commissioner.Encouraged by the constructive debate, the Commissioner announced that he will organise a conference with civil society in July this year in Brussels to continue the dialogue. The following day (still in Berlin), members and organisations from the ARC network attended the ‘Wir haben es Satt‘ demonstration which saw a crowd of 23,000 consumers, farmers, beekeepers, environmental and animal rights activists,and developmental groups gather in front of Germany’s government offices to demand an end to industrial farming practices.January was also the 50th anniversary of the CAP. On 23rd January, ARC issued a press release with our signatories, Friends of the Earth Europe and IFOAM EU Group. After 50 years of support for a failing system, we called upon […]
6th European Organic Congress PR […]
Seeds, GMOs and restrictions on farm-saved seed make food crop seeds a hotly contested issue. […]
Several hundred protesters take to the streets of Warsaw following large decline in honey bees […]
France media picks up NGO demands at the Salon de l’Agriculture in Paris […]
Challenge for rural economy? […]
As Cioloş continues his tour of Member States, EU Ministers start to do the same […]
Volunteer initiative from potato farmers that cuts out the middleman sparks positive reaction in Greece […]
As biodiversity suffers in the face of farm lobby interests, BirdLife asks for a greening of whole CAP […]
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