Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

European Days of Action 2025 – United for Food Justice

Food Justice. The European Days of Action, this year in its eighth edition, put a spotlight on the need to shift power away ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020Opinion

EU Budget: From Green Deal to Raw Deal for the Environment

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Letter From The Farm | Acorn, The Permitted Fruit

Today is World Acorn Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a love letter to acorns, an unsung superfood! We are ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Where The Untended Feeds Us – Cécile Gilquin’s “Tiers-Paysage”

“All the places neglected by human beings”: this is the site of the Third Landscape (Tiers-Paysage) as defined by Gilles Clément in his Manifesto of the Third Landscape. Cécile Gilquin was drawn to ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

EU Budget: How Brussels’ New Plans Put Regions Out to Pasture

Brussels is still sifting through the wreckage of the budget bombshell the European Commission dropped in July. As the dust settles, one question looms large: who wins, and who’s left behind? In this ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Planting Seeds of Quiet Agroecological Resistance in South Africa’s Fields

A quiet rebellion is taking root in rural South Africa. Led by women armed not with tractors or chemicals, but with seeds, soil, and agroecological knowledge, this movement rejects the export-led ...
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

So Who Are These ARC People?

ARC2020 is at once an old and a young organisation. Only a decade ago, an array of organisations came together when Commissioner Dacian Ciolos was at the helm in Agriculture. This seemed like a good ...
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

Rural Europe Takes Action – Food System Lessons from Marburg

From left: Hannes Lorenzen (ARC2020); Ann-Marie Weber, Almut Busch and Merle Drusenbaum (kollektiv von MORGEN); and Marcus Nürnberger (AbL), pictured in a farmyard in southern Marburg-Biedenkopf in ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The Rise of a New Grain Alliance – Germany’s Free Bakers Sow the Seeds of Change

A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and legumes. ARC2020’s President Hannes Lorenzen reports on how farmers, bakers, ...
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 ...