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‘We are fed up’ weekend in pictures
UK correspondent Peter Crosskey shares his photos from the weekend of one of Germany’s biggest demonstration in years […]
Press releases, news, interviews and reports from across the network
UK correspondent Peter Crosskey shares his photos from the weekend of one of Germany’s biggest demonstration in years […]
So what about the agri-food system are people fed up with? […]
Pierre-Alain will be on stage for the demonstration this Saturday revving up the crowd. He shares a bit about his work on a recent campaign, ‘1000 Cows’, below. […]
What are the consequences of a diet laden in meat and dairy products? […]
Find out what’s happening with CAP reform implementation in your country with our updated toolkit. […]
As of today you can vote for Syngenta, Bayer and BASF, the “bee-killers”. […]
Join the demonstration for better food and better farming! […]
For their feature on factory farming, the magazine interviewed Meine Landwirtschaft spokesperson […]
As coalition partners discuss, 100,000 German citizens and counting signed a petition stating that they do not want GMO crops on German fields […]
ARC2020 was invited to participate in the Action Forum at the 2nd Annual Global Soil Week, “Losing Ground?” […]
Some wild species are returning once again. But what does this mean around the Continent? […]
The Kishantos Rural Development Centre in Hungary is a unique organic farm and education centre: here sustainable agriculture, ecological farming and education have been serving society as a whole. The Hungarian Land Fund (representing the State as the owner) issued an open call tender for the rent of the lands in ten lots. If this decision is not annulled it means that the Kishantos non-profit Organisation will lose all the land as of 1 November 2013. […]
To mark World Food Day, the Greens/EFA group today launches a new campaign platform called ‘Join the Food Revolution’. The web-based platform provides a space where people can present projects and ideas, whether big or small and create a community. EU citizens can get together to act to suggest alternative and innovative practices to the food production model currently promoted throughout the EU. So if you are passionate about good food and good farming whether as a farmer, fisherman, food professional, organisation or citizen, you can join the ‘Join the Food Revolution’ community and be part of a political project aimed at improving EU food policy.
On Saturday, September 28, 1000 ‘angry cows’ – citizens, elected officials, farmers, unions – stormed the site of a factory farm development in France to demand an end to the project. The action was part of an ongoing campaign organised by Confédération Paysanne. The site in question aims to hold 1000 cows, much larger than France’s average farm size of 44 cows. Its main goal would not be to produce food, but to use the methane from the cow dung to produce energy. This project would be a dangerous symbol of the industrialization of agriculture, with serious consequences on employment and the environment. Read more here (in French).
Many Disco Soups are being organized for World Food Day – October 16th, 2013 – to celebrate solutions to food waste and at highlight the scandal that over a third of the world’s food is thrown away. […]
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