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ARC Newsflash November 2014

November 4, 2014 ARC

Hello from the Oliver and Luise, Arc2020’s Communication team! Welcome to our November newsletter.We’ve a great range of news and views for you this month, with land access in France, short supply chain innovations in Romania, an agroecology report from September’s FAO international symposium and a round up of the growing opposition to TTIP as main features.Along with these key stories, October was a busy month for us, with people from all over the Continent informing our site. Recent stories include: The facts on corporate control of the EU’s seed supply: case study from Romania Empowering Rural Stakeholders from the Western Balkans Manage grasslands as if our lives depended upon it What happened to the sustainable food communication? Nourish Scotland on the Common Wealth of Food Do keep a watchful eye on the work we are doing with Friends of the Earth Europe on a project which will make the most of the CAP. Its a project about making it easier to do agroecology within the terms of current EU agri-food policies. So we are supporting the establishment of farmers’ markets in Sofia […]

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Farmers’ Market in Sofia – Farmers meet Consumers

August 29, 2014 ARC

Ivaylo Popov tells us about his  “awesome  walk through a small farmers’ market in Sofia” and can’t wait to to tell us more about it. I just came back from an awsome  walk through a small farmers market in Sofia and can’t wait to to tell you more about it. It is the farmers market, organised once a week by the environmental association Za Zemiata and other groups and organizations. It is supported by a project of Za Zemiata – “Making the CAP work for Society and the Environment”. Its aim is to show that the Common Agricultural Policy could and should support not only the high intensive food industry, but also the small-scale clean food production and sustainable short food supply chains. This farmers market is great evidence of short supply chains in action. Every week it is visited by around 800 consumers and more than 20 producers are offering their produce there. The market is a great place in the city center, where organic farmers meet their customers face to face. I arrived at 12:30, an hour and a half after […]