Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

What’s Food Sovereignty got to do with it? The New Geopolitics of Food

Resilient, self-reliant food systems. This is what a major new IPES-Food report puts forward as a way to deal with food price ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

Sitting with our contradictions – Learning to reconnect with nature and find peace as humans

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

Pitchfork Politics – How Closed-Door Talks Around Europe’s Farmer Protests Rewrote the EU’s Green Rules

This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and originally published in the EUObserver. Lawyers have called it undemocratic. The EU’s watchdog has found ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

France | The Ag Coop that Shares More than Machinery

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Agroecology has a PR problem. Here’s how we can solve it.

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Mercosur will make European farmers more vulnerable to international capital & commodities flows

“Don’t take away my dream of taking over”: Appeal of an aspiring young farmer at a protest in Brussels, 18 December 2025. Photo: Hannes Lorenzen With the signing of the EU-Mercosur free trade ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Future of Seeds: The Power Play Between Patents and New GMOs

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.
Europe's Milk Crisis

EU Budget: How Brussels’ New Plans Put Regions Out to Pasture

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

France | Not Perfect, But Possible – Seeing is Believing at Institut de Tramayes

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Op-Ed | Farmland Sees the Less Sunny Side of Germany’s Solar Transition

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Does EU Policy Have An Appetite For Local Food?

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 ...
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 ...