We’re back on Hoslovice ranch in South Bohemia, where mother and daughter team Terezie Daňková and Barbora Halová have been ...
As the old adage goes, you are what you eat. But just how sustainable are our policymakers’ plates? As the EU (finally) ...
The EU’s seed marketing legislation is one of the main causes of a significant decline in cultivated diversity. Traditional and indigenous varieties are being eradicated due to stringent regulations ...
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 ...
Germany’s energy transition is affecting its land market, driving investment and increasing concentration of land ownership. In this op-ed, Anne Neuber of Netzwerk Flächensicherung, an alliance ...
Pesticides deemed too toxic for Europe are still being produced here and sold abroad to be sprayed on fields where farm workers live, work, and raise their children – but these are also fields that ...
As of 2020, an estimated 8.7 million people were reported to be employed in agriculture. However, when considering the entire unregulated workforce, the agricultural labor force is significantly ...
Observing the current discourse on Agroforestry, you may get the impression that this agricultural system would only suit the tropics. One widely used argument is that the processes in Agroforestry ...
In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience ...
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 ...
ARC2020 has been a vital force in championing sustainable, just, and resilient food and farming systems across Europe. Together, we’ve laid important groundwork, developing slow-cooked policy-analysis ...
Testing a new handover tool for farmers and relief services in Haute-Vienne, France. Photo: Service de Remplacement France via Facebook Who milks the cows when the farmers fall sick? There is only one ...