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 PFAS panic has seen us eye everything from non-stick pans to takeaway packaging with suspicion. But what if one of the most direct routes of exposure to these ‘forever chemicals’ is not in the ...

Potato harvest in Serbia. Photo: Canva. Resilient, self-reliant food systems. This is what a major new IPES-Food report puts forward as a way to deal with food price volatility driven by increasing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Year of the CAP — but just how “common” will the EU’s next agricultural policy be? Could pensioners be excluded from direct payments? And will farmers finally get a day off? Meanwhile ...

“Don’t take away my dream of taking over”: Appeal of an aspiring young farmer at a protest in Brussels, 18 December 2025. Photo: Hannes Lorenzen With the signing of the EU-Mercosur free trade ...

As the tractors roll back into the streets of Brussels and London, it feels an opportune moment to reflect on the state of food, farming and the environment across Europe, and to contemplate — at a ...

On 4 December, EU negotiators reached an agreement to deregulate plants engineered with new genomic techniques. In this op-ed, Franziska Achterberg of Save Our Seeds argues that the deal dismantles ...

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.