An unusual political creature celebrates twenty years of cooperation between a wide range of committed government officials, ...

The Polish Rural Parliament launched earlier this month, holding its inaugural gathering at the European Congress on Rural ...

The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is once again being trimmed down to size, with the Commission reaching for the ...

Leaner but not greener with a new era of flexibility and power to member states – these are some of the changes on the menu ...

Leaner but not greener with a new era of flexibility and power to member states – these are some of the changes on the menu for the EU’s new plan to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy, according ...

Despite moves towards simplification, a Land Observatory is coming this summer. What’s more, there is broad consensus from both the Commission and farming organisations on the need for some more ...

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 ...

Populism has become a powerful political force in Europe. The current wave of populist movements has seeped through the European countryside from France to Sweden to Poland. Yet despite the emergence ...

Direct payments are the main instrument of support to farmers under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). First introduced in the 1992 CAP reform, they are justified as a way to support farm ...

This autumn, Dutch farmers brought the Netherlands to a standstill after it became clear they would be hit hard for the nitrogen crisis the country is facing. As protests intensified, politicians were ...