From July 1, Ireland’s EU Presidency promises to put food security, farming and fisheries centre-stage. But will it use its ...

You can have your cake and eat it too, according to a leaked version of the EU’s upcoming livestock strategy, which leans on ...

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 ...

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 ...

How accessible are conversations around transition? As we at ARC2020 deepen our longstanding work to support agroecology and food sovereignty, with a focus this year on the right to food in our Rural ...

A few days ago, BBC Radio 4 programme “Farming Today” featured an interview with Kees Huizinga, a Dutch farmer who came to the Ukraine some 20 years ago and now operates a 15,000 hectare farm right in ...

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 EU’s farming subsidy programme has shapeshifted significantly from its original form, thanks to a series of exemptions and, crucially, a fundamental change in its regulation in 2024. But how have ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in plant breeding. But talks are stalling on one particularly sticky issue.

After a long silence saturated with rumours and speculations, a broad majority Monday presented a political deal on implementing the informal green tripartite agreement (IGTA) from June. In addition ...

What if, instead of going into debt to invest in their farms, farmers came together to pool equipment? What if, instead of struggling to run a small farm alone, there was extra help at hand? What if ...

This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and originally published in the EUObserver. Lawyers have called it undemocratic. The EU’s watchdog has found ...