Agriculture
The debate around glyphosate goes beyond whether it’s carcinogenic or not – it challenges our whole model of agriculture, but there is an alternative.
Read moreAre the giants of the agro-industry who claim they are determined to “Feed the world” in fact fostering food insecurity through exploitation and environmental degradation?
Read moreFood policy isn’t working. Does the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) address the problems, or can agroecology provide the answers?
Read moreThe biotech industry are lobbying to exclude a new generation of genetic engineering techniques from the European GMO regulations.
Read moreBenjamin Joyeux interviews Indian activist Vandana Shiva about biodiversity, seed patents, and the commons.
Read moreThere is a grave injustice at the heart of the global food system. Climate change has never been more prevalent, yet one of its principal perpetrators – the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption, species extinction, habitat loss, ocean dead zones and pollution, responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions (at least 14.5%) than all transport in the world combined – is being persistently ignored.
Read moreNearly 30,000 people took to the streets of Berlin on January 18, 2014 to protest the industrialisation of farming and the E.U.-U.S Free Trade Agreement currently under negotiation. In addition to making their demands heard, the organisers gave a voice and a face to Agrarwende, a citizen movement that is gaining steam in Germany and that calls for a rethinking of agriculture.
Read moreThough many of the Commission’s reform proposals have been watered down, the Greens scored some notable successes in ensuring a ‘greening’ of the CAP. What are these, and what do they mean for European farming?
Read moreThere is potential for organic agriculture in the Western Balkans.
Read moreWhat and how we eat has a profound impact on our culture, but changes in recent decades have profoundly changed our relationship with food, and not for the better. What are the costs of these changes, and can they be reversed?
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