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EU’s New Budget Plan Stuck in the Mud After Parliament Refuses to Plough Ahead

In a rare show of unity across political groups, the European Parliament has pushed back hard against the European Commission ...
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Passing the Pitchfork – Inside the EU’s new plan to get young farmers in our fields

The EU’s strategy for generational renewal, presented on Tuesday 21 October,  lays out ambitious plans to double the share of young farmers in Europe by 2040. Here’s what it promises, what’s missing, ...
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Where The Untended Feeds Us – Cécile Gilquin’s “Tiers-Paysage”

All the places neglected by human beings”: this is the site of the Third Landscape (Tiers-Paysage) as defined by Gilles ...
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Why Is the Local Food Economy in Ireland So Weak?

Ireland’s weak local food economy is not simply a modern oversight or the result of consumer preferences. Instead, it is ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

EU Budget: How Brussels’ New Plans Put Regions Out to Pasture

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust settles, one question looms large: who wins, and who’s left behind? In this ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

France | Not Perfect, But Possible – Seeing is Believing at Institut de Tramayes

Signpost pointing to the workshops, reception and gardens of Institut de Tramayes. Photo: Ashley Parsons In the run-up to this November’s Rural Resilience Gathering, ARC2020’s Ashley Parsons and ...
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So Who Are These ARC People?

ARC2020 is at once an old and a young organisation. Only a decade ago, an array of organisations came together when Commissioner Dacian Ciolos was at the helm in Agriculture. This seemed like a good ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Op-Ed | Farmland Sees the Less Sunny Side of Germany’s Solar Transition

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 ...
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Letters From The Farm

ARC’s Hannes Lorenzen met Vytenis Grigas, a young Lithuanian farmer and psychology lecturer, at a CEJA conference on the future of EU farm policy. Five years ago Vytenis began what he calls a “serious ...
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Letter From The Farm | Neighbours, Not Numbers: How Local Feeds Us All

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Rural Europe Takes Action – Food System Lessons from Marburg

From left: Hannes Lorenzen (ARC2020); Ann-Marie Weber, Almut Busch and Merle Drusenbaum (kollektiv von MORGEN); and Marcus Nürnberger (AbL), pictured in a farmyard in southern Marburg-Biedenkopf in ...