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Webinar | Growing Food Resilience in Covid19 times – New Tools and Approaches for Agroecology

June 11, 2020 ARC

At this Webinar we will learn about new tools and approaches agroecological communities have developed since Covid-19. In the face of an extra, massive challenge, communities all over Europe have stepped up and developed creative responses for distributing good food. A number of examples will be presented and discussed with the practitioners themselves, while there will be a real focus on co-learning and next steps for deepening our collective food resilience. […]

Ammonia | Hanging Around Like A Bad Smell

June 10, 2020 Alison Brogan

An unpleasant stench stank out cities across Europe this spring as the pandemic-induced drop in emissions from transport and industry cleared the air for agricultural air pollution. As luck would have it, the Covid-19 lockdowns coincided with peak slurry-spreading time – making the stink all the more pungent. But there’s more to manure than a bad smell to worry about. Alison Brogan reports. […]

Food Talks: How food can save the world

June 10, 2020 Louise Kelleher

The #FoodTalks series presents a discussion with Carolyn Steel, an expert on food, cities and transformative change, and the author of ‘Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World’ and ‘Hungry Cities’. Additionaly, the webinar will feature stories from people on the ground who are taking positive climate action. There will also be an opportunity for viewers to get involved and discuss ‘how we can all be emergency respondents now’ You can register for the webinar here

Comprehensive Tool Kit for Agroecological Land Access Launched

June 2, 2020 ARC

Your Land, My Land, Our Land: Grassroots Strategies to Preserve Farmland and Access to Land for Peasant Farming and Agroecology” is a collection of case studies, practical tips legal tools and more, “to facilitate access to land for peasant and agroecological farmers, shepherds and mobile pastoralists, small-scale food producers, local residents, consumers, and environmentally-minded people and organisations, highlighting their crucial roles in building a more sustainable and fairer system […]

Reforesting Portugal: Taking Communites From Extraction to Regeneration

May 29, 2020 Antonieta Lopes

From the ashes of Portugal’s devastating wildfires in 2017 rose Reflorestar Portugal, a national network for forest and ecosystem regeneration. In this interview for ARC2020, Susana Guimarães, coordinator of Reflorestar Portugal, speaks to Antonieta Lopes about empowering local communities to be guardians of the forest, moving from an extractive to a regenerative economy, and letting go of what has proven to be of no use to us. […]

Farm 2 Fork | EU Has Caved to Eco-Lobby, Complains Big Ag

May 25, 2020 Louise Kelleher

Unusually for these times, this week a cautious optimism is in the air. The European Commission has unveiled its much anticipated Farm to Fork strategy, and stuck to its guns with relatively ambitious new targets for agriculture. Predictably enough, the agri-lobby was not happy. Louise Kelleher walks us through the reactions. […]

Ireland | Remote Work Could Rejuvenate Rural Communities

May 22, 2020 Luke Kent

We don’t know yet what the “new normal” will look like, but we do know that remote work can work – with the right supports. In Ireland, the pull of jobs in the city and abroad has hollowed out rural areas, and young graduates have little incentive to return home after completing their studies in Dublin. Many young graduates from rural areas would jump at the chance to stay put and pursue their careers remotely, rather than facing crippling rents in Dublin, or a crippling commute. Now is the time for a paradigm shift in working life to rejuvenate rural communities, argues Luke Kent. […]

Farm 2 Fork and Biodiversity Strategies Hold Firm on Real Targets

May 20, 2020 ARC

Despite enormous lobby pressure, the EU Commission’s flagship Green Deal strategies – the Farm to Fork and the Biodiversity Strategies – have retained their initially leaked targets for a reduction in fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials, and concurrently, for an increased in organic farming to 25% – and all by 2030. The 10% target for high diversity landscape features has also been retained. […]

Farm Resilience in the Face of the Unexpected: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 19, 2020 Ika Darnhofer

The COVID-19 pandemic draws attention to many things, including our global connectedness, the role of ‘big government’, marginalisation, solidarity, and the ‘unsung heroes’ who keep essential systems running. For all of us, it tests our resilience… […]

Tweets of the Week – 20/2020

May 14, 2020 ARC

Our weekly Twitter round up of great content from our kindred network: a Friday treat for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy what we’ve found for you on twitter. […]

Rough Ride for East European Workers in Seasonal Veg

May 14, 2020 ARC

Low cost labour intensive vegetable production has been under strain in recent weeks. Tens of thousands of seasonal workers have moved from east to west – as they do each year. This year is not, however, a typical year. Covid19 has added new dimensions, while also shining a spotlight on an otherwise hidden army of harvesters. But is harvesting the white gold more valuable than the health of Romanian farm workers? […]

CAP Transitional Regulation – Running to Stand Still

May 13, 2020 ARC

Some things move fast while others can seemingly be delayed indefinitely. And sometimes, as if by magic, both can happen at one and the same time. So it is with the CAP transitional regulation, where real transformation in agri-food is delayed by a further two years – but the process to do this is itself being fastracked at breakneck speed. The CAP process it seems, is running to stand still. […]

Alternatives to Rural Right-Wing Populist Europe – Part II

May 7, 2020 Natalia Mamonova

In the second instalment of a two-part series on populism and rural Europe, Natalia Mamonova shares her insights on populist strategies in the countryside, food sovereignty as a counterforce to these dangerous trends, and the impact the coronavirus crisis is having on right-wing populist movements and rural transformations. […]

Whoever does not have Peasants, Should find Them: The Food Injustice of Pandemics

April 16, 2020 ARC

European Coordination of Via Campesina’s call to join the#StayHomeButNotSilent call to action on April 17 to commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle, reiterates the fundamental role of peasants in feeding people, even in the most difficult times. It takes a crisis for alternative food systems to emerge. Is our food system, dominated by trade ideology instead of human rights, ready to face pandemics? […]

Coping with Covid19 – Mutual Aid and Local Responses in a time of Coronavirus

April 14, 2020 Oliver Moore

There is a spectrum of possible responses to this unfolding crisis. Here we’ll briefly introduce some small and also larger mutual aid initiatives, or local and community responses to covid19 and what it brings out in people – from street to municipal levels, from rural to border areas. […]