Who milks the cows when the farmers fall sick? There is only one answer to that question for most: the farmers, or their ...

Four years ago, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent fertiliser prices soaring, exposing the true extent of just how reliant our ...

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 ...

The Ciasnocha Family Farm team from left to right: Mirosław, Krzysztof, Marian, Paweł and Mateusz Ciasnocha Welcome to Ciasnocha Family Farm – a 730 ha regenerative grassland farm in the Vistula delta ...

Typical landscape feature of LEADER area Steirisches Vulkanland – some of the 42 extinct volcanos shaping the area with its small settlement and production structures (Source: Bernhard ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers across Europe have taken to the streets. They protest volatile incomes, rising costs, unfair pricing and buying practices, unfair competition from imports and free trade agreements, regulatory ...

In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience ...

Surviving repeated threats of being buried alive, the EU’s first ever law on soil health was finally adopted last month. And while environmental groups have called out “severe shortcomings” in the ...

The EU powers-that-be are currently in the midst of big talks on the EU’s €1.2 billion budget, known in EU-speak as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). And as usual, where there’s big bucks, ...

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 ...