Producing and selling locally is a shared value. Rural territories are defined not by administrative borders but by economic concerns. That’s what we heard on the ground from the farmers and other rural actors we visited in France in 2021 and 2022. Last in a four-part series analysing the hot topics around transition, by the Rural Resilience project team. […]
« Produire et vendre localement » comme « valeur forte », un sens commun pour les paysans rencontrés… Voilà ce que « Nos campagnes en résilience » a pu observer lors des visites de terrain (2020-2022). Au cours des entretiens, nous avons évoqué la place de l’agriculture dans les dynamiques territoriales. Tous les participants agriculteurs ont évoqué le territoire non dans sa définition institutionnelle (avec les frontières administratives) mais le plus souvent dans une logique économique. Quatrième et dernière partie d’une analyse thématique. Rédaction : l’équipe du projet, désormais connu sous l’appelation « Rural Resilience ». […]
MEPs from the Agri committee in the European Parliament have voted for complete rejection of the Nature Restoration Law (NRL). The vote was by a 2/3 majority – 30 for the rejection vs 16 against, with no abstentions. So what’s next? […]
While the debate intensifies around pesticides and new genomic techniques (NGTs), the European Commission appears to be in a political battle on many fronts as to whether these topics are on or off its agenda for the Summer. […]
If we all agree to take back the power over our food, what do we need? Helping to frame the discussion at the Global Bean Seed Festival, Xavier Hamon, artisan cook and partner of the Rural Resilience project, encourages us to re-cultivate hundreds of varieties of grains and pulses, take back land, win political mandates, and most of all, support those who work for the living world, day after day. Words : Xavier Hamon. […]
Samedi le 22 avril, à l’occasion de la rencontre internationale Global Bean Seed Festival, Xavier Hamon, artisan-cuisinier et partenaire du projet Rural Resilience, présente une tribune politique qui met en avant la relation au vivant liée à la culture des légumineuses. Si nous sommes tous d’accord pour reprendre le pouvoir sur notre alimentation, de quoi avons-nous besoin ? Paroles : Xavier Hamon […]
The countryside is a nice place to live. Farmers are happy. That’s what we heard on the ground in the cooperative farms we visited in France in 2021 and 2022. One thing these farms have in common is a focus on collective wellbeing: farmers are innovating and experimenting to improve quality of life for themselves and their communities. Yet these experiments go under the radar at national and European level, and need supports to weave ties between actors and sectors. Part three of a series analysing the hot topics around transition, by the Rural Resilience project team. […]
Des campagnes heureuses, des endroits où il fait bon vivre… Voilà ce que « Nos campagnes en résilience » a pu observer lors des visites de terrain (2020-2022). Les territoires ruraux fourmillent d’idées et d’innovations : expérimenter est une des formes du “bien vivre ensemble”. Troisième partie d’une analyse thématique. Rédaction : l’équipe du projet, désormais sous la nouvelle appelation « Rural Resilience ». […]
As the European Commission prepares for the launch of its proposal on the Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Legislative Framework in late September, the EU Food Policy Coalition has published a joint report laying out clear policy recommendations for the SFS Law to ensure a meaningful transition to sustainable food systems across the European Union. Summary and report to download here. […]
This weekend, our sights are set on England. The Michael Dower Award for European Rural Resilience will be launched in honour of the late European Englishman, at an event dedicated to his life and work, in the Peak District National Park on Saturday April 22nd. […]
It’s a long road to building a new way of imagining life in the countryside. We are pleased to share with you ARC2020’s findings from the field in France: “Nos Campagnes en Résilience: Collective Reflections within Socio-Ecological Transition, 2020-2022” . Here we report on the journey so far for the people involved in this project, with an extract from the first chapter of the report: A Collective Adventure. By the “Nos Campagnes en Résilience” team. […]
L’association ARC2020 vous invite à découvrir son analyse des recherches-actions menées sur le terrain en France : « Nos campagnes en résilience: Cogitations collectives au cœur de la transition socio-écologique, 2020-2022 », en publiant ici le premier chapitre de nos cogitations collectives : « La transition, une aventure collective ». Dès aujourd’hui, le rapport est disponible à télécharger gratuitement. […]
If Ukraine joins the European Union, and the current Common Agricultural Policy system of per hectare payments remains untransformed, oligarch-run conglomerates could become eligible for tens of millions of euros in taxpayer money. But this is not the only possible agricultural reality in an enlarged EU. There are farmers, researchers, civic initiatives and officials – like the delegates of Ukraine’s Vinnytsia region who visited Low Saxony in March 2023 – exploring ways to rebuild and reorient the country’s farming and food system in times of war. […]
The German CAP Strategic Plan has the potential for an ambitious CAP 2023 to 2027. While the debate on the next CAP post-2027 is already starting, in this article we argue that the German government needs to exploit all potential in the current CAP to increase the ambition towards more climate change mitigation and the protection and enhancement of natural resources and biodiversity. The coalition agreement gives them the mandate to do so. […]
The European Court of Justice last week ruled that plant breeders could not claim lump-sum damages from farmers four times the fee due for licensed production in the case of repeated infringements of an EU regulation on community plant variety rights, without proving concrete damages of that same amount. What follows is a translation of a statement released on March 16 by IG Nachbau, a group working to restore the unrestricted right to farm-saved seed. […]
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