Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

When Policy Fails, People Step Up – Inside ARC’s Rural Resilience Project

Rural Resilience is ARC2020’s strategic initiative to strengthen civil society’s role in shaping the future of rural Europe.
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Op-Ed | Farmland Sees the Less Sunny Side of Germany’s Solar Transition

Germany’s energy transition is affecting its land market, driving investment and increasing concentration of land ownership.
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

European Rural Parliament 2025 — Rural Community Solutions to Global Challenges

This October 20-23, over 400 rural delegates from across Europe will gather in the north-east of Scotland for the 6th ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Re-Sowing the Seeds of Connection in Switzerland, Part II – Healthy Interdependencies, Led By Farmers

In early June, the Seeds4All project team was invited by artist Alexandra Baumgartner to contribute to the fifth edition of Food Culture Days, a multidisciplinary biennial organised in Vevey, ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Does EU Policy Have An Appetite For Local Food?

Across Europe, small-scale farmers are essential actors in local food provisioning, yet they face structural barriers to accessing public support. While industrial agriculture continues to receive the ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

So Who Are These ARC People?

ARC2020 is at once an old and a young organisation. Only a decade ago, an array of organisations came together when Commissioner Dacian Ciolos was at the helm in Agriculture. This seemed like a good ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

Gérard Choplin Obituary – Farewell to a Pioneer of the EU Peasant Movement

It is with sadness and deep gratitude that we bid farewell to Gérard Choplin — agronomist, political companion, co-founder of the European Peasant Movement, and tireless defender of agriculture that ...