Sustainable Farming

Europe’s biggest farming lobby, together with the EPP, opposes any policy inimical to the interests of large landowners.

Some claim that higher agricultural productivity is necessary to protect biodiversity. But such an approach can be counterproductive.

Here’s what one year of running a community restaurant in Almere taught one of its creators.

How the American biologist changed the course of the environmental movement through her seminal work Silent Spring.

By increasing the carbon in soil, farmers could play a key role in offsetting emissions on a massive scale, making agriculture key to solving climate change.

We spoke to Linda Gaasch and Claude Gruffat on why Europe needs a fairer and healthier model centred on the needs of farmers, consumers and the environment.

An agroecological Europe could be the answer to a food system that’s bad for our health and damaging to our environment.

The IPES-Food co-chair discusses CAP reform, agroecology, and how only an overhaul of the food system will make it sustainable.

Many EU policy-makers see precision agriculture as the answer to the question of food sustainability, but agroecology offers a genuinely sustainable solution already at hand.

An interview with Green MEP Thomas Waitz on the EU’s post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, and on the way forward to a food system that works for consumers, farmers, and the planet.