July is shaping up to be a blockbuster month for the EU agrifood sector. In a double-whammy move, the European Commission is ...

The European Commission is preparing to tear up the architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in what could set ...

A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and ...

Rural voices still seem to go unheard in EU policymaking. The Rural Pact Coordination Group proposes a new tool for rural ...

With Europe’s forests under more pressure than ever to remove carbon and provide all manner of ecosystem services, is there such a thing as a non-productive tree? And what exactly is a high diversity ...

Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm - a 730 ha regenerative grassland farm in the Vistula delta of northern Poland. In his first Letter From The Farm, Mateusz Ciasnocha walks us through what's involved ...

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 ...

The Czech CAP Stragic Plan has now been approved by the European Commission. Agricultural associations had been protesting against the proposed 23% share of direct payments. Terezie Daňková, a Czech ...

The European Commission has been quietly weighing up options to radically overhaul its budget. This could see all of its 500+ biggest money pots merged into one mega money pot, divided out based on ...

On November 28, in collaboration with SEED Luxemburg and the Greens/EFA, the Seeds4All project took part in the organisation of a conference at the European Parliament on the future of seeds. Delving ...

A master gardener and co-founder of the SEED association for the preservation and use of the region's traditional seed varieties, Frank Adams has long been involved in the legislative battle waged by ...

The German CAP Strategic Plan has the potential for an ambitious CAP 2023 to 2027. While the debate on the next CAP post-2027 is already starting, in this article we argue that the German government ...