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Czech Republic | PM Babiš’ Chickens Coming Home to Roost?

December 3, 2018 Louise Kelleher

The Czech chicken industry is under the wing of a Godfather. The same man is also milking the domestic dairy sector and has the nation’s encased meats all sewn up. Or at least that was the case until he became Prime Minister. Now, with a confidential European Commission report concluding Andrej Babiš has a conflict of interest between his business and his political position, are his chickens coming home to roost? […]

Beyond Agroforestry? An Introduction to Syntropic Farming

November 26, 2018 Julia Ruff

Swiss farmer Ernst Götsch has developed a variant of agroforestry called syntropic farming. So what is it – what’s different about it – and can it be part of the regenerative agriculture movement? Julia Ruff attended a workshop in Spain with Götsch and tells us about it. […]

CAP | Will Environment Committee Flex its New Found Muscles?

November 15, 2018 Oliver Moore

Global trade (WTO) rules on competitiveness and a sequence of EU treaties mean that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is supposed to be more environmentally sustainable than it was. Now, with increased powers, the European Parliament’s environment committee has an opportunity to show some muscle. But will it flex those pecs? […]

AgtechTakeback | Show me the Money – Debt, Technology and Path Dependence

November 11, 2018 Laura Skove

New technological advances in digital agriculture are poised to further transform the business and science of growing crops. But technology comes at a cost, and it is worth considering the impact of farm debt on farmers’ ability to innovate and to transition towards agroecological practices.With Laura Skove in Paris. […]

Letter From The Farm | Greece’s Mazi Farm

October 30, 2018 Natasha Foote

Welcome indeed to Mazi Farm, a regenerative agroforestry farm run by a team brought together by a common goal – to restore degraded farmland in the Mediterranean. Natasha Foote introduces our next letter from an agroecological farm. […]

AgTechTakeback | Neither neoLuddism nor Corporate Ag – Towards a Holistic Agroecology

September 23, 2018 ARC

Will hi-tech save agriculture from its otherwise intractable problems? Certainly technological stakeholders want it to appear so, as digitisation increases both in the fields and in the policy documents and future plans for the sector. So what is the peer to peer and agroecological response to this? […]

European Coordination of Via Campesina (ECVC) on Future of CAP

September 18, 2018 ARC

CAP should better support all of those who work the land and produce food, while helping develop agroecological practices. Read extracts from two European Coordination of Via Campesina (ECVC) documents on the Future of CAP. […]

#AgtechTakeback – Debate by ARC2020 and IATP

September 2, 2018 Karen Hansen-Kuhn

As the role of technology increases in farming and food, and corporate powers use this to extend their power, we need to strive for technological developments that are appropriate for farmers, for eaters and for the planet. Welcome to #AgTechTakeback. […]

Letter from a Lamber | Farmer’s knowledge and the fight against antibiotic resistance

July 23, 2018 Aron Marshall

Despite mounting concern about antibiotic resistance globally, parts of the UK agricultural industry remain opposed to further restriction. Could the antibiotic overuse be addressed by policymakers actively incorporating traditional good husbandry knowledge of farmers into best practice management plans? […]

Emissions Impossible | Climate Impact of Big Meat and Dairy

July 20, 2018 Helene Schulze

A new report by IATP and GRAIN out this week highlights the devastating impact of the meat and dairy giants on the environment. If GHG emissions from this sector continue as predicted, the Paris Agreement goals are firmly out of reach. […]

re:CAP | Risks and the Rural World

July 17, 2018 Helene Schulze

What do the most effective rural development policies look like? What role might risk management play in that? We speak to Christian Rehmer (BUND, Friends of the Earth Germany), Aurélie Catallo (Pour Une Autre PAC), Ulrich Jaspers, AbL and Die Verbände-Plattform and Ariel Brunner and Harriet Bradley (BirdLife). […]

Environment Committee Gains Right to Bring CAP Amendments to Plenary

July 6, 2018 Oliver Moore

The Environment committee in the European Parliament has been given a greater say in the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This includes the right to bring “amendments” (proposals) direct to the Plenary of the European parliament. […]

Vested Interests Fight to Keep Control of Agriculture Reform

July 3, 2018 ARC

Greenpeace EU agriculture policy director Marco Contiero with this op-ed tells us that a little-known panel in the European Parliament will rule later this week on a procedural issue that could make or break the EU’s most expensive and arguably most environmentally destructive policy. The leaders of the Parliament’s different political groups will end a bitter row between MEPs over which committees should be given a meaningful role in CAP reform. […]

re:CAP | Subsidiarity – Savvy Decision-Making or Member State Carte Blanche?

June 28, 2018 Helene Schulze

The next CAP will likely give more power to Member States which may renationalise CAP. This raises questions about EU-level enforcement. Christian Rehmer (BUND, Friends of the Earth Germany), Aurélie Catallo (Pour Une Autre PAC), Ulrich Jaspers, AbL and Die Verbände-Plattform and Ariel Brunner and Harriet Bradley (BirdLife) share their ideas. […]

Future of CAP – is the Commission ambitious or backsliding?

June 8, 2018 ARC

Here we round up some recent perspectives on the Commission’s CAP proposal. This includes a summary of the 18 months of work that went into the document(s), concern over capping backsliding, a briefing on conditionality, which member states want to keep the cash as it was, and an Urgenci (CSA) and Birdlife perspective. […]