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Irish Ag Minister’s Climate Change “voodoo accounting”
Increasing dairy herd also increases dairy GHG emissions, leading Irish NGO claims. […]
Increasing dairy herd also increases dairy GHG emissions, leading Irish NGO claims. […]
How will the Principality spend its largest RDP payout ever? Peter Crosskey investigates. […]
Michaela Skodova from long time Arc2020 supporters Groupe de Bruges tells us about their new, interactive CAP information project […]
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 […]
ARC2020’s Oliver Moore was at Ireland’s STOP TTIP Day of Action. Here’s what he said. […]
The international “Access to Land”- working group coordinates comparable initiatives in several European countries. […]
The 7th Round, beginning this week, includes Food Safety and Animal Welfare. […]
EcoRuralis’ Derek Freitas reveals peasant power fighting back against the forces of capital. […]
Watch out for business-as-usual agri-buiness solutions, even very well meaning ones…. […]
Every year since 2004, Roşia Montană has hosted the FânFest (The Hay Festival). […]
A pilot program to harmonise EU US regulation and policy on Endocrine Disruptors was recently launched parallel to current EU US trade talks. […]
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 […]
Many observers have indicated that CETA serves as a trial run for the larger trade and investment deal between the EU and the US. […]
How do western farms treat eastern labour? Appallingly, it seems. […]
Local products and Community Supported Agriculture in Czech Republic. What products are distributed through these routes? how many farmers and consumers participate? And how does CAP support of hinder those developments? Hnutí DUHA – Friends of the Earth Czech Republic – tell us more. […]
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