What we need is in our hands: Re-designing food systems
APRODEV’s Karin Ulmer reports on the FAO international symposium on agroecology held in Rome in September. […]
APRODEV’s Karin Ulmer reports on the FAO international symposium on agroecology held in Rome in September. […]
Derek Freitas, Food Sovereignty Campaign Coordinator for Eco Ruralis, reports on another way for producers and consumers to connect […]
Dear friends and supporters of Arc2020, “A window was opened in what has been for 50 years the Cathedral of the Green revolution”. So said José Graziano De Silvia, Director General of the FAO at the International Agroecology Symposium recently. It did seem like a momentous moment, coupled with French Agriculture Minister Stéphane Le Foll backing of Agroecology that very week too. And yet, a few days later, the global high-level agri-food agenda had moved onto Climate Smart Agriculture – the other CSA. And lo, it came to pass that a broad, strong agroecology – the kind we promote in our project with Friends of the Earth Europe – will have to struggle for the limelight against this bells and whistles version of business-as-usual. Attila Szocs of Eco Ruralis explains the issues with the other CSA in more detail later on in this newsletter. Later on too you’ll get our take on Phil Hogan – AG Commissioner designate – and what was gleaned from the European Organic Congress regarding the Organic Regulation. In particular inadvertent pesticide contamination – who foots the […]
The Sustainable Food Communication will not see the light of day before Janez Potočnik steps down. […]
EcoRuralis’ Derek Freitas reveals peasant power fighting back against the forces of capital. […]
Watch out for business-as-usual agri-buiness solutions, even very well meaning ones…. […]
Geopolitical strife is having an effect on the ground and in the vegetable producing fields of France… […]
Confédération Paysanne have mounted a strong battle against the 1000 cow mega-farm in France, with some success says Urgenci’s Judith Hitchman explains. […]
EU funds will be used to consolidate holdings: that’s push small producers & peasants off the land […]
Open letter from civil society on the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture […]
Suprising as it is to western ears and eyes, there are opportiunities for people in China to actively participate in a good food system […]
Every year since 2004, Roşia Montană has hosted the FânFest (The Hay Festival). […]
Dear friends and supporters, Welcome to our September newsletter! As Autumn and the political season kick into gear once again, we’re helping build agroecological solutions to the business as usual model of food production. Three of Arc2020’s team are out and about promoting this work in September. Samuel Feret will showcase a poster on agroecology at the FAO’s seminar in Rome; Oliver Moore is presenting abut our agroecology approach and project at the European Organic Congress in Bari, while Robert Pederson has just attended the University of Copenhagen agroecology conference.We at Arc2020 see agroecology as holistic – it encompasses not just more environmentally benign production inputs, practices and processes: it is about stronger people-nature connectivity throughout the food system. It is about shorter distribution chains. It is about science, farmers and activists coming together to do food differently, in a way which is in keeping with the carrying capacity of the planet and with the real human need for connection.Some highlights from August: Agritourism in Romania The Original CSA? exclusive Arc2020 Interview with Ryoko Shimizo of Japan’s SEIKATSU UK taps into Agroecology […]
Derek Freitas of Eco Ruralis shows us Romanian Agritourism, and how CAP plays a role […]
How do western farms treat eastern labour? Appallingly, it seems. […]
Agricultural and Rural Convention