Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

Ireland Takes the EU Wheel: CAP Cash, Livestock Matters and Securing What Exactly?

From July 1, Ireland’s EU Presidency promises to put food security, farming and fisheries centre-stage. But will it use its ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Leaked Livestock Strategy Bets on Technofixes & Pulls From Industry Playbook

You can have your cake and eat it too, according to a leaked version of the EU’s upcoming livestock strategy, which leans on ...
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Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

A sad day for democracy and science

Yesterday the European Parliament voted to open farm gates – and by extension, our plates – to New Genetic Technologies (NGTs). This is a seismic development that reveals cracks in the EU's democratic ...
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

Ireland | Lessons from the “Poor Man’s Cow”

We are back with Shane Casey in The Burren, Ireland, where lambing season is in full swing. Shane has been busy with the next generation on and off the farm too, visiting schools with a herd of Old ...
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

Why Is the Local Food Economy in Ireland So Weak?

Ireland’s Land War: T. Birmingham’s house, Moyasta, Co. Clare with Battering Ram and soldiers outside. This eviction took place on the Vandeleur Estate, Co. Clare between 1887-1888. The Battering Ram ...
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

Op-Ed | Europe Must End The Double Standards In Toxic Pesticides Exports

A number of hazardous pesticides which are banned in the EU are freely manufactured and exported to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU ...