An appalling war on Ukraine has manifold impacts. The direct human cost is immense and incalculable. The impacts on the world’s agri-food trade and commodity systems will be huge. The 4 F’s – fuel, ...

Quite quickly, Ireland has seen the kind of land concentration more familiar in other parts of Europe. Various pressures are coming to bare on access to land, including the desires of the very wealthy ...

The transhumance is a privileged moment between shepherd and animal, an experience like no other. Both parties know what is expected of them, coming together as a ...

The Ciasnocha Family Farm team from left to right: Mirosław, Krzysztof, Marian, Paweł and Mateusz Ciasnocha Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm – a 730 ha regenerative grassland farm in the Vistula delta ...

A number of hazardous pesticides which are banned in the EU are freely manufactured and exported to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU ...

Farmers across Europe have taken to the streets. They protest volatile incomes, rising costs, unfair pricing and buying practices, unfair competition from imports and free trade agreements, regulatory ...

In the interests of transparency, ARC2020 is making available the European Commission’s draft regulation on NGTs – New Genomic Techniques. Also made available is the Impact Assessment which ...

Kristof and Matthew Hayes at Groundswell 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Kristof Hayes For Matthew Hayes, a flying visit to Groundswell 2024, the UK annual festival for regenerative agriculture, provides a ...

In the final part of this short series on Bhutan, Hannes Lorenzen teams up with Adrian von Bernstorff to examine how the Bhutanese economy is increasingly geared toward supporting food sovereignty and ...

Typical landscape feature of LEADER area Steirisches Vulkanland – some of the 42 extinct volcanos shaping the area with its small settlement and production structures (Source: Bernhard ...

Carbon Farming, isn’t the CAP doing it already? All parameters of soils are deteriorating in the EU. Erosion, compaction, organic matter decline, pollution, loss of biodiversity and salinization are ...

In a farming system that demands more than it gives, Marie Halicki finds that relationships, not yields, nourish resilience, sovereignty, and sanity. There’s plenty of time to think behind the wheel ...