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Patriotism, Food Sovereignty & Contemporary Ukraine

February 25, 2018 Natalia Mamonova

Over the last few years, Ukraine went through dramatic political, socio-economic and cultural changes. Dr. Natalia Mamonova investigates how the rising Ukrainian national identity and patriotic sentiments during the geopolitical conflict with Russia changed the ways in which Ukrainian smallholders see their household farming. The revealed transformation may lead to an emergence of a food sovereignty movement in Ukraine. […]

European Commission: Retreating from Science-Based Regulation?

February 4, 2018 IATP

In the USA, there has been a well-documented war on science, allowing product developers to determine the safety of their own new products in nanotechnology and genetic engineering. Recently, the EU has followed suit, despite the obvious implications and conflicts-of-interest.
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Meet Senator Joel Labbé – Driving Force Behind French Herbicide Bans

January 28, 2018 ARC

Public places in France – schools, parks, forests, roadsides – are no longer treated with herbicides, while more restrictions are coming in in 2019. Senator Joel Labbé has been the driving force behind these restrictions. ARC2020 has worked with Labbé to help bring his work to the European stage. […]

Food is Political! 33,000 Are Fed Up With Agri-Industry!

January 20, 2018 ARC

33,000 citizens – including 160 tractor driving farmers – made their way through the winter streets of Berlin on Saturday to tell the world – food is political! #EssenIstPolitisch […]

Meet Olga Alcaraz | Gender Equality in Mexican Agroecology

January 10, 2018 Karen Hansen-Kuhn

Agroecology is about more than just affordable, ecological techniques – meet Olga Alcaraz, one of the women leading the movement forward. […]

IPES Food – 5 Practical Solutions For a Sick Food System

October 9, 2017 Oliver Moore

In its new report, IPES Food Present Five Practical Solutions For a Sick Food System. How we think about it; who’s involved; how it functions and the role of both alternative food provisioning and science all play a part in fixing a broken food system. […]

Fair Food Trading in the EU – have your say

July 28, 2017 ARC

Who’s got the power in the food system? A process is in motion to better understand and potentially change power relations and unfair trading practices in the production, distribution and consumption of food in the EU.You can contribute. For more, read on… […]

Growing Food in the Post-Truth Era

July 2, 2017 ARC

The global food system has been operating in post-truth mode for decades. Having constructed food scarcity as a justification for a second Green Revolution, Big Agriculture now employs its unethical marketing tactics to selling farmers “climate-smart” agriculture in the form of soils, seeds and chemicals. […]

Blockchains Could Help Restore Trust in Food

January 15, 2017 ARC

If the food industry is not in crisis, it certainly contains an increasing level of complexity and associated risks. A recent analysis suggested 50% of US food production is wasted, with global estimates above 30%.
Recent developments in the digital economy could help. Enter blockchain. […]