With Europe’s forests under more pressure than ever to remove carbon and provide all manner of ecosystem services, is there such a thing as a non-productive tree? And what exactly is a high diversity ...

The European Commission is preparing to tear up the architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in what could set ...

A new idea is brewing in Germany, with the first seeds sown of a new alliance along the food value chain for cereals and ...

Rural voices still seem to go unheard in EU policymaking. The Rural Pact Coordination Group proposes a new tool for rural ...

July is shaping up to be a blockbuster month for the EU agrifood sector. In a double-whammy move, the European Commission is ...

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 ...

Real leadership requires confronting the short-term economic costs of doing the right thing. Costs in the short term are a bet on the long term: a ban on prohibited pesticides would stimulate ...

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 ...

Organic farming has long been hailed as the poster child for sustainable agriculture. But as the EU organic sector becomes increasingly industrialised, cracks are beginning to appear. How can we weed ...

On Cloughjordan Community Farm it takes a village to grow 50 sorts of vegetables. The member-owned farm produces high quality, nutritionally dense veggies using agroecological methods. Community is ...

Where to find heritage grains likely to thrive in a Portuguese climate and soil conditions? José da Camara Ruas tells us about his farming project in the Alentejo region in south Portugal, and his ...

The Commission has published "A Vision for Agriculture and Food", where it scales back the green ambitions of the Farm-to-Fork strategy, passing the buck to Member States to implement sufficient ...