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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 ...
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Can the CAP and Carbon Farming Coexist?

Carbon Farming, isn’t the CAP doing it already? All parameters of soils are deteriorating in the EU. Erosion, compaction, organic matter decline, pollution, loss of biodiversity and salinization are ...
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Impact of CAP Beyond the EU – A Closer Look on Soya Imports and Milk Product Exports

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a policy of the European Union that mainly focuses on agriculture and the food system in each Member State. However, the CAP also has a decisive influence on ...
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CAP Social Conditionality: A Game Changer for Farm Workers?

As of 2020, an estimated 8.7 million people were reported to be employed in agriculture. However, when considering the entire unregulated workforce, the agricultural labor force is significantly ...
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Spilling Europe’s Dirty Secrets: Uncorking the Toxic Trade in Banned Pesticides

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 ...
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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.
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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, ...
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What the EU farmers survey tells us – and doesn’t tell us – about CAP burden

For months, we have been hearing about the bureaucratic burden that has been pushing EU farmers to the brink. Now, the preliminary results of a Commission survey designed to unpack this are in – so ...
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Re-CAP: Breaking down the breakdown of the EU’s green farming measures

Where to start? Well, in the wise words of Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music – let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. So we’ll start at the start of the previous CAP – which ...
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Agri MEPs Move to Weaken Pesticide Regulation and Starve it of CAP funds

Lawmakers from the European Parliament’s agriculture committee have greenlit their opinion on the EU’s plan to slash the use and risk of pesticides in half. The agriculture committee (AGRI)’s opinion ...
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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 ...
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Sustainable Food Systems Law – EU Food Policy Coalition’s Recommendations for a Meaningful Transition

As the European Commission prepares for the launch of its proposal on the Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Legislative Framework in late September, the EU Food Policy Coalition has published a joint ...