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 powers-that-be are currently in the midst of big talks on the EU’s €1.2 billion budget, known in EU-speak as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). And as usual, where there’s big bucks, ...

The protracted process of finishing the current CAP-reform, completed 3 years after the previous CAP-period expired, has proven to be every bit as vulnerable to national inertia as feared. Take ...

A number of hazardous pesticides which are banned in the EU are freely manufactured and exported to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU ...

As the European Commission prepares for the launch of its proposal on the Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Legislative Framework in late September, the EU Food Policy Coalition has published a joint ...

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 ...

Where to start? Well, in the wise words of Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music – let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. So we’ll start at the start of the previous CAP – which ...

Fifteen years on from the ‘land rush’, a multi-pronged global land squeeze is forcing farmers and communities off the land – and Europe has a key role to play in fixing it. By Nick Jacobs. After a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...