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May 23, 2018 ARC

Data Protection The following notes give a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal data is all data that personally identifies you. We are committed to protect and respect your data privacy. Data collection at our website The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Its contact details can be found in the imprint of this website, which is at the bottom of every page on this website. We collect the data that your share with us directly – for example, your email address if you email us. Other data is collected automatically when visiting the website through our IT systems. These are above all technical data (for example your internet browser, the operating system or the visit time). The collection of this data happens automatically as soon as you enter our website. Part of the data is collected to ensure the continuity of providing this website. Other data can be used to analyse user behavior, for example which pages are visited […]

CAP & MFF | Eco-Spin without Public Goods Substance

May 17, 2018 Oliver Moore

There is, it seems, a lot of eco-spin and not a lot of public goods substance in the MFF CAP proposals. Perspectives from IEEP, Annika Hedberg of EPC, Alan Matthews, EEB, Greenpeace EU, WWF EU, Birdlife Europe, AG MEPs and Bruegel are presented in this article.
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#SoilMatters part 6 | What do we want of our soil? And how do we get it?

May 16, 2018 Roy Neilson

Roy Neilson and Blair McKenzie of the James Hutton Institute start with the consideration – what do we want from our soil? They move from here on a fascinating journey into the difference between soil texture and structure, into soil management, organic matter, and the impact of different practices on soil. […]

Ireland | More Organic Producers Would Improve Farming’s Overall Sustainability

May 14, 2018 Oliver Moore

With Ireland edging towards reopening its organic farming scheme – closed since 2015 to new entrants, and closed in 2014 for a year too too – the context of organic farming within the overall agri-food sector is worth exploring. What would it mean for Irish agriculture in general to have a bigger, more vibrant organic sector? Particular attention is paid to the public goods of biodiversity and water quality. […]

How Art & Elemental Words Fed Ireland’s Festival of Food Sovereignty

April 29, 2018 Anja Murray

Ireland’s Maynooth University hosted the 2018 Festival of Food Sovereignty mid-April. The intention was to connect activists, scholars, practitioners and social movements from around the world interested in creating a food system rooted in principles of justice, ethical production and consumption, sustainability and democracy. […]

3 Neonicotinoids Banned from Outdoor Use in EU

April 27, 2018 ARC

3 neonicotinoids – Bayer’s imidacloprid and clothianidin, and Syngenta’s thiamethoxam – will be banned from all outdoor fields on EU farms within six months. […]

Should the EU use Tax & Policy Supports to Encourage Healthy Diets?

April 24, 2018 ARC

Should the EU use Tax and Policy Supports to Encourage Healthy Diets? How have sugar and fat taxes – and subsidies for fruit in schools – worked? And how integrated and health, sustainability and agri-food policies? Joost de Jong explores in the second of two parts. […]

More Coherence between CAP and European Food Policy Needed

April 23, 2018 Joost de Jong

Joost de Jong of the Dutch Transition Coalition of Food Systems argues that European food and farming policy need to be more closely integrated. Part 1. […]

French-German Alliance calls for CAP Reform Based on Principles of Sustainability, Solidarity and Justice

April 17, 2018 Helene Schulze

A number of NGOs, farmer and consumer organisations have issued a joint statement in French and German, calling for a fundamental CAP reform. Read our exclusive translation. […]

From Asters to Allethrin: The New Frontier of Agricultural Biologicals

April 10, 2018 ARC

In light of the Baysanto merger recently approved, Ian Fitzpatrick investigates the new frontier of agricultural biologicals. […]

Valuing Nature & the Hidden Costs of Biodiversity Loss

April 1, 2018 ARC

How can biodiversity loss and ecosystem services be valued? What are the implications of putting a monetary value on nature? Ian Fitzpatrick investigates current research on ecosystem service valuation. […]

CAP | Ministers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland call for Full Convergence

March 18, 2018 Helene Schulze

Ministers of agriculture from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland sign joint declaration on future of CAP ,calling for full convergence of direct payments. […]

#SoilMatters Part 3 | Soil, Carbon and Policy – where now for 4p1000?

March 18, 2018 Oliver Moore

The role of farming in climate change mitigation is controversial and fraught. The UN COP (Conference of Parties) Climate Change has tentatively introduced soil and carbon sequestration into its workings, via 4 pour 1000. However the role of particular agronomic practices involving livestock is under special scrutiny. Does livestock release more than it sequesters, or does the farming model matter? What about deep carbon storage? And how will policy makers work with new research and 4p1000? […]

Germany – 20% organic by 2030?

March 4, 2018 ARC

Germany has a new coalition government, and it has set some ambitious targets in the food and farming sphere – especially for organic farming. Oliver Moore has more. […]

Pressure mounts for opening of Organic Farming Scheme in Ireland

February 22, 2018 ARC

Our own Oliver Moore has been busy in Ireland talking and writing about about the (lack of an) Organic Farming Scheme in recent weeks. He was on the TV: with demand for #organics growing, why is demand way outstripping supply in Ireland and is it time to reopen our organic scheme #ettg @ellamcsweeney pic.twitter.com/uhFnAwo409 — Paula Williams (@paulawilliamss) February 22, 2018 You can watch the full show here (national restrictions may apply) And you can listen to him on the radio too on the Saturday morning show Countrywide. Last week he told us about the confusion the Irish Department of Agriculture has with regard to opening or not opening the Organic Farming Scheme. Schrödinger’s Cat and the State of the Irish Organic Farming Scheme While this week he covered the recent Biofach 2018 event – the world’s largest organic trade show for the Irish Farming Examiner. Below is what he wrote about what the Irish organic certification bodies – IOFGA and the Organic Trust – have to say about the lack of an Organic Farming […]