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Good Food Good Farming #Arc2020 conference
A report on the key ideas and outcomes from this civil society gathering held in Brussels 10-11th February […]
Daily updates on whats new on the ARC website and in the CAP debate
A report on the key ideas and outcomes from this civil society gathering held in Brussels 10-11th February […]
Karen Hansen-Kuhn & Hannes Lorenzen unpack the issues with TTIP & local food names in this long read. […]
Participatory seed saving techniques are given a welcome boost in Romania, with the 2015 Eco Ruralis seed catalogue […]
Civil Society comes together to build towards better food and farming in Europe […]
Land acquisitions in Romania are turning rural areas into socio-cultural deserts.And more. With Attila Szocs of Eco Ruralis. […]
The UK parliament’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee (EFRA) this week published its findings on the provision of rural broadband, warning that until there is completely reliable broadband coverage in the UK, “…there will be those who, through lack of online access, are disadvantaged through no fault of their own.” The committee heard that at present one in 10 CAP applicants either do not have a computer or do not use broadband. Last year, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) wrote to 18,000 farmers in England who would no longer qualify for Pillar I area-based support, leaving some 90,000 registrations that need to be completed by the May 15 deadline. With fewer than 100 days to go, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is reporting that just over 22,500 farm businesses have registered. This means that registration levels will need to top 700 farms/day to meet the deadline requirements. The union has been emailing and texting members to remind them of the need to register. The RPA has set up 50 help centres across England, where […]
As the 8th round of secret negotiations begins, civil society mobilises too […]
In 2010 ARC2020 launched a “Communication from Civil Society to the European Union Institutions on the Future of Agricultural and Rural Policy” which was elaborated over six months and adopted by a broad alliance of civil society organisations and networks. The Communication was submitted to the European Commission, to the Council and the Parliament on the same day when the Commission published its first outline for a reform of the CAP. During the following debate and negotiations of the future of agricultural and rural policies ARC2020 has strongly advocated for a paradigm change in agriculture and food systems and for an economic, social and environmental renaissance of rural areas. ARC2020 has become a European Platform for a debate on the future of farming and food. Our #ARC2020 conference – Good Food, Good Farming and a living Countryside – is an opportunity for renewing our civil society’s agenda for the coming five years. We offer a framework for a ROAD MAP of goals and activities which ARC2020 and its partners could follow in the coming years, based on […]
Simplification should work for peasant farmers and not to generate fund-grabbing by the corporate sector, as Maria Rodriguez Beperet explains. […]
EU Citizens want local food but governments are not doing enough to help, Friends of the Earth Europe’s new report reveals. […]
Civil Society and grassroots gathering in Brussels 10th – 11th February 2015 Register here. Follow the event live on twitter and facebook. The Agricultural and Rural Convention 2020 (ARC2020), Friends of the Earth Europe and IFOAM EU invite you to a civil society gathering and conference on February 10th and 11th 2015 in Brussels, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). This event brings together representatives from civil society, grassroots groups, researchers, national and regional authorities and policymakers to: 1. Assess the implementation of the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020 and its prospects of agricultural sustainability and of rural renaissance. 2. Identify milestones to support transition of food and agriculture systems based on agroecological approaches. You are invited to participate in the development of a Civil Society roadmap towards good food, good farming and a living countryside! Now is the time for the good food – goods farming movement in Europe to assess where we are, to develop a vision for where we want to be in 2020 and agree on a strategic roadmap how to […]
Walter Haefeker of the European Professional Beekeepers Association tells us why he’s concerned about TTIP […]
Wir Haben Es Satt! march surpasses expectations as record number challenges the broken food system. […]
Vibrant new UK farming organisation with an agenda similar to that of Arc2020,as Peter Crosskey reveals. […]
Soup&Talk and The Transatlantic – European workshop on TTIP after the “We are fed up!” demo 17.01.2015 in Berlin […]
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