What if we acknowledged the labour embedded in every plate of food we eat, in every glass of wine? Forum Synergies trainee ...

Lawyers have declared it unlawful. The EU’s watchdog has found maladministration. And yet it’s full steam ahead for the EU’s ...

The CAP 2027 project tracks and explains the fast-evolving debate around the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, both present and future. As Europe faces climate pressures, farm-income challenges, ...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a policy of the European Union that mainly focuses on agriculture and the food system in each Member State. However, the CAP also has a decisive influence on ...

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 ...

Quite quickly, Ireland has seen the kind of land concentration more familiar in other parts of Europe. Various pressures are coming to bare on access to land, including the desires of the very wealthy ...

Carbon Farming, isn’t the CAP doing it already? All parameters of soils are deteriorating in the EU. Erosion, compaction, organic matter decline, pollution, loss of biodiversity and salinization are ...

In her mission letters to the new crop of Commissioners, President von der Leyen is clear that she intends to turn the page and start a fresh chapter, outlining what she calls a “new approach” for ...

As of 2020, an estimated 8.7 million people were reported to be employed in agriculture. However, when considering the entire unregulated workforce, the agricultural labor force is significantly ...

Ministers have given their final blessing to the EU’s Nature Restoration Law, marking the last milestone for the law to enter into force. But proponents shouldn’t put the champagne on ice just yet, as ...

The EU’s seed marketing legislation is one of the main causes of a significant decline in cultivated diversity. Traditional and indigenous varieties are being eradicated due to stringent regulations ...

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 ...