Resilient, self-reliant food systems. This is what a major new IPES-Food report puts forward as a way to deal with food price ...

A farm can be a place for the kind of learning that’s hard to find in educational institutions. Combining her work in both ...

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 ...

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.

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust settles, one question looms large: who wins, and who’s left behind? In this ...

Signpost pointing to the workshops, reception and gardens of Institut de Tramayes. Photo: Ashley Parsons In the run-up to this November’s Rural Resilience Gathering, ARC2020’s Ashley Parsons and ...

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 ...

Across Europe, small-scale farmers are essential actors in local food provisioning, yet they face structural barriers to accessing public support. While industrial agriculture continues to receive the ...

ARC’s Hannes Lorenzen met Vytenis Grigas in July 2025, at a conference of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA) on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy and its new financial framework.

In a farming system that demands more than it gives, Marie Halicki finds that relationships, not yields, nourish resilience, sovereignty, and sanity. There’s plenty of time to think behind the wheel ...

Buckle up – July is shaping up to be a blockbuster month for the EU agrifood sector. In a double-whammy move, the European Commission is set to unveil not one but two major proposals on 16 July that ...