Ewa Smuk-Stratenwerth is co-founder of ZIARNO Ecological-Cultural Association and the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów, ...
Can a system designed in Brussels and enforced from space truly understand the subtle, seasonal rhythms of rural life? Or ...
With the signing of the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement this weekend, a spectre of the past comes back to haunt Europe’s ...
Minding mental health is an ever increasing challenge for rural communities, and especially farmers. It's a crisis ...
Indigenous protests at COP30, hosted in Belém in northern Brazil, at the gateway to the Amazon River. © UN Climate Change – Diego Herculano Rollbacks in Brussels ...
While the co-legislators and the trilogue negotiations at EU level continue to derail the future CAP away from the necessary reforms, in December 2020, the European Commission issued EU-wide and 27 ...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a policy of the European Union that mainly focuses on agriculture and the food system in each Member State. However, the CAP also has a decisive influence on ...
Back in March 2022, and following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the conservative branch of the EU parliament and agricultural ministers started to build on their narrative of at-risk food ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...