If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must earn a ...

EU agri-food products protected by quality schemes can face counterfeiting and usurpations in third countries, resulting in significant economic losses for EU producers. The same can happen in the ...

The CAP has shapeshifted significantly thanks to a series of exemptions and, crucially, a fundamental change in its regulation in 2024. But how have these changes impacted the green architecture of ...

1) Ecological succession: the process of changing species when a climax community evolves, each consortium creates the conditions for the next consortium and its composition of species, complexity and ...

In March 2021, the German Agriculture Ministers' Conference and the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture agreed on important cornerstones for the country's CAP Strategic Plan. In his preliminary ...

Dans la lutte pour un futur plus socio-écologique, l’alimentation semble un clé moteur des dynamiques territoriales. Constat de la première phase du projet « Rural Resilience » (2020-2022), alimenté ...

Ukraine is on our screens every day. Still the countryside and its people mainly appear either as victims of war or as soldiers – not as citizens, workers or farmers. When it comes to its vast swaths ...

75 years have passed since Evert Willem Hofstee was appointed to the position of Professor at Wageningen University, which marks the beginning of rural sociology as a discipline and as a university ...

Glomalin stores carbon in both its protein and carbohydrate. As outlined in a 2002 article by Sara F. Wright and Kristine A. Nichols of the USDA-ARS Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, it ...

Soaring grain prices, alongside gas, oil, fertilizers and pesticides, have sparked an unexpected debate on food production in the EU. A dependent and completely overexposed agricultural system has ...

Adrian von Bernstorff is the Director of the Entrepreneurialism Clinic (EC) at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, training Bhutan’s future lawyers in the practical application of law in the ...

While the co-legislators and the trilogue negotiations at EU level continue to derail the future CAP away from the necessary reforms, in December 2020, the European Commission issued EU-wide and 27 ...