We promised a budgetary bombshell, and that’s exactly what dropped in Brussels last week. With a (not so) ‘Common’ ...

With Europe’s forests under more pressure than ever to remove carbon and provide all manner of ecosystem services, is there ...

The European Commission is preparing to tear up the architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in what could set ...

Rural voices still seem to go unheard in EU policymaking. The Rural Pact Coordination Group proposes a new tool for rural ...

A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and ...

Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm - a 730 ha regenerative grassland farm in the Vistula delta of northern Poland. In his first Letter From The Farm, Mateusz Ciasnocha walks us through what's involved ...

Crop diversification to improve the soil microbiome is key to the approach of the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) movement. After soil to bread in Portugal, the Seeds4All ...

The transhumance is the pinnacle of Claire Jeannerat's farming year, bringing with it a seasonal shift in her family's home life. With the summer transhumance behind them, she sits down to catch her ...

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 ...

The Czech CAP Stragic Plan has now been approved by the European Commission. Agricultural associations had been protesting against the proposed 23% share of direct payments. Terezie Daňková, a Czech ...

What do young farmers think of CAP reform so far? In this email interview, Alessia Musumarra, Secretary General of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA), acknowledges some wins in the European ...

A new study from the Greenpeace European Unit - Go Big or go Bust shows just how rapidly farming in Europe is going in a particular trajectory. Simply put, small farm are disappearing, and large farms ...