Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Pitchfork Politics – How Closed-Door Talks Around Europe’s Farmer Protests Rewrote the EU’s Green Rules

Lawyers have called it undemocratic. The EU’s watchdog has found maladministration. Two years after a wave of farmer protests swept across Europe, the political response that dismantled key ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

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 ...
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

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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

When Policy Fails, People Step Up – Inside ARC’s Rural Resilience Project

Rural Resilience is ARC2020’s strategic initiative to strengthen civil society’s role in shaping the future of rural Europe. In a moment of democratic fragility, land inequality, and ecological ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Op-Ed | Farmland Sees the Less Sunny Side of Germany’s Solar Transition

Germany’s energy transition is affecting its land market, driving investment and increasing concentration of land ownership. In this op-ed, Anne Neuber of Netzwerk Flächensicherung, an alliance ...
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

Re-Sowing the Seeds of Connection in Switzerland, Part I – Nurturing What We Have

In early June, the Seeds4All project team was invited by artist Alexandra Baumgartner to contribute to the fifth edition of Food Culture Days, a multidisciplinary biennial organised in Vevey, ...
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 ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Power of Diversity & Community-Managed Natural Farming – The Future of Agriculture Comes From India

Crop diversification to improve the soil microbiome is key to the approach of the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) movement. After soil to bread in Portugal, the Seeds4All ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Spilling Europe’s Dirty Secrets: Uncorking the Toxic Trade in Banned Pesticides

Pesticides deemed too toxic for Europe are still being produced here and sold abroad to be sprayed on fields where farm workers live, work, and raise their children – but these are also fields that ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Eco-schemes – Running to stand still?

Introduced under the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027, eco-schemes aim to promote biodiversity, climate resilience and environmental sustainability in EU farming. Yet, a report by NABU and ...