Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust ...

Food Justice. The European Days of Action, this year in its eighth edition, put a spotlight on the need to shift power away ...

Today is World Acorn Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a love letter to acorns, an unsung superfood! We are ...

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 ...

Back in March 2022, and following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the conservative branch of the EU parliament and agricultural ministers started to build on their narrative of at-risk food ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An appalling war on Ukraine has manifold impacts. The direct human cost is immense and incalculable. The impacts on the world’s agri-food trade and commodity systems will be huge. The 4 F’s – fuel, ...

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 ...

Can a cash-strapped EU afford to lock itself into a dysfunctional agricultural policy? In the wake of the new positions on CAP reform agreed by the Council and European Parliament last week, Sebastian ...