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Passing the Pitchfork – Inside the EU’s new plan to get young farmers in our fields

The EU’s strategy for generational renewal, presented on Tuesday 21 October,  lays out ambitious plans to double the share of young farmers in Europe by 2040. Here’s what it promises, what’s missing, ...
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Where The Untended Feeds Us – Cécile Gilquin’s “Tiers-Paysage”

All the places neglected by human beings”: this is the site of the Third Landscape (Tiers-Paysage) as defined by Gilles ...
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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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

European Rural Parliament 2025 — Redefining Rurality in the Scottish Highlands

Panel discussion on the future of rural development in EU policies, moderated by ARC2020 president Hannes Lorenzen. Photo: European Rural Parliament / Scottish Rural Action On October 20-23, over 400 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The EU is Mulling a Seismic Budgetary Shift – What Would This Mean for Agri and Rural Areas?

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, ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

France | Democratising Food Policy – Tweaking The Financial Toolbox

In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Case for a Land Observatory in Ireland

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Beer farmers – a Fair Deal for a Good Drink

This article first appeared on the seeds4all website, part of the ARC2020 family. Belgium is famous for beer. And even being a small country, the multinational Belgian brewery industry is a big player ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Letter From The Farm | Neighbours, Not Numbers: How Local Feeds Us All

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

25 years of LEADER – What impacts?

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 ...