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

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust ...
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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 ...
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Planting Seeds of Quiet Agroecological Resistance in South Africa’s Fields

A quiet rebellion is taking root in rural South Africa. Led by women armed not with tractors or chemicals, but with seeds, ...
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Spain | Participatory Water Governance – A New Model for Regional CAP Implementation?

In a time of environmental regulation backsliding in agriculture, how can grassroots, participatory processes enable farmers, environmentalists, and other local stakeholders to effectively shape ...
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The Trojan Horse of Simplification

On the back of yet another green light for a fresh batch of ‘simplification’ plans, ARC2020’s Natasha Foote explores how deep ...
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France | Not Perfect, But Possible – Seeing is Believing at Institut de Tramayes

In the run-up to this November’s Rural Resilience Gathering, we took a trip to the Institut de Tramayes: a centre for learning by doing, that seeks to counteract the fragmentation of intellectual ...
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Commission’s Recommendations to CAP Strategic Plans: Glitters or Gold?

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 ...
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Beyond Agroforestry? An Introduction to Syntropic Farming

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 ...
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CAP Strategic Plans: More Money, Less Liability

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly since the invasion of Ukraine, the agricultural sector has found itself embroiled in an ongoing crisis. Adding to these challenges, the ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

CAP Environmental Derogations: What is the Impact on Food Security?

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Bhutan | An Economy for Food Sovereignty and Organic Farming

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 ...
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The German CAP Strategic Plan: The Ambition has yet to Come

Everything is still possible for the German CAP 2023-2027. An overview. When the new coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals came into office end of 2021, expectations were high that the ...