Every October, the Good Food Good Farming movement highlights locally organised events across Europe and creates spaces for people to explore the stories behind our food, question the system we have, ...

The transhumance is a privileged moment between shepherd and animal, an experience like no other. Both parties know what is expected of them, coming together as a ...

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 ...

Typical landscape feature of LEADER area Steirisches Vulkanland – some of the 42 extinct volcanos shaping the area with its small settlement and production structures (Source: Bernhard ...

In this op-ed, Dr. Jeroen Candel of Wageningen University assesses the varying, sometimes contradictory pressures which have led to the current wave of farmers’ protests. In a context of short-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

The EU’s seed marketing legislation is one of the main causes of a significant decline in cultivated diversity. Traditional and indigenous varieties are being eradicated due to stringent regulations ...

Ukraine is on our screens every day. Still the countryside and its people mainly appear either as victims of war or as soldiers – not as citizens, workers or farmers. When it comes to its vast swaths ...

Pesticides deemed too toxic for Europe are still being produced here and sold abroad to be sprayed on fields where farm workers live, work, and raise their children – but these are also fields that ...

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 ...