Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

CAP | EU Watchdog Gears Up To Fight For Fairness in Future Farming Policy

The EU’s watchdog is ready for the fight over fairness in the EU’s future farming policy just as NGOs launch another round of ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Italy | The Fruits of Unseen Labour

What if we acknowledged the labour embedded in every plate of food we eat, in every glass of wine? Forum Synergies trainee Lana Chaduneli spent a rich two ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

How a Nitrogen Crisis Turned Dutch Farmers to Rage

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 ...
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

Learning from Germany’s Decades of Public Biogas Support

Renewable Energies: Biogas (fermenter), wind power and photovoltaics on a farm in Horstedt (Schleswig-Holstein/ Germany). Photo: Florian Gerlach (Nawaro) via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Ireland, ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The German CAP Strategic Plan: The Ambition has yet to Come

Everything is still possible for the German CAP 2023-2027. An overview. When the new coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals came into office end of 2021, expectations were high that the ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Czech CAP Strategic Plan – Redistributive Payments and the Counter-Productive Tension Between Small and Big

A well designed redistributive payment is an essential tool to reduce inequalities among CAP beneficiaries and farming systems. But as is often the case, the best design strongly depends on national ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Case for a Land Observatory in Ireland

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Action During the War in Ukraine

Growing Vegetables in an ecovillage in Ukraine, where refugees fleeing war are housed. For more see the Green Road project. The dramatic situation that the Ukranian people have been experiencing since ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Year of the CAP & Big Budget Overhaul – Key EU Policy Moments to Watch in 2026

Welcome to the Year of the CAP — but just how “common” will the EU’s next agricultural policy be? Could pensioners be excluded from direct payments? And will farmers finally get a day off? Meanwhile ...