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Hungary | Hands on the Land to Grow Alternatives for Humanity

Welcome back to Zsámboki Biokert, a market garden and alternative learning space, located close to Budapest. Young trainees ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

Sustainable farming isn’t a threat to food security. It might be the only thing that saves it.

The real threat to your dinner isn’t organic farming – it’s climate change (and the agroindustry lobby). In this op-ed Dr ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

From Bessarabia to Brussels? Ukraine’s New AKIS Network to Connect Farmers with Knowledge

Designed to bring the fruits of research, innovation and experimentation within reach of those who need it – farmers and ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

In Search of Untasted Flavours

Native to East Asia, the Goumi tree (Elaeagnus multiflora) is a rare find in Europe, which is a surprise considering its long ...
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

Rural Resilience Gathering | Knowledge is the Power to Shape our Rural Futures Together

We congregated on the last weekend in November, together with participants from 12 European countries and beyond, for our Rural Resilience Gathering 2025. We took home new perspectives, tools and best ...
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

France | Not Perfect, But Possible – Seeing is Believing at Institut de Tramayes

Signpost pointing to the workshops, reception and gardens of Institut de Tramayes. Photo: Ashley Parsons In the run-up to this November’s Rural Resilience Gathering, ARC2020’s Ashley Parsons and ...
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

Crafting the Collective – Tijs Boelens’ Vision for a Farmer-Led Grain Revival

If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must earn a fair price, processors must adapt their methods—and consumers must be able ...