Rural Europe Takes Action | Creating Alternatives, Creating Community
In June 2022, together with Forum Synergies, ARC2020 launched a book: "Rural Europe Takes Action - No more business as usual". We're spotlighting its stories of rural action and key messages for...
View ArticleRural Europe Takes Action | Regenerative Governance in Rural Spain
Next in our series of extracts from "Rural Europe Takes Action - No more business as usual" is the story of Resilience.Earth, a non-profit cooperative committed to community resilience and regenerative...
View ArticleRural Europe Takes Action | CSA and the Building of a Food Commons
Community Supported Agriculure (CSA) can transform the way producers and consumers relate to food as a local commons. In 2008, the Romanian network for Community Supported Agriculture farms (ASAT) set...
View ArticleRural Europe Takes Action | A Shared Space for Food Transition
This extract from "Rural Europe Takes Action - No more business as usual" tells the story of the Sustainable Food Consortium, a group of food activists who came together in Redon, France. We hear in...
View ArticlePassing of Michael Dower, a European Englishman
Michael Dower has sadly passed away. Co-founder of the European AgriCultural Convention (EAC), which later became ARC2020, Michael stood staunchly for rural Europe, democracy, inclusion, and taking...
View ArticleCross-Pollinating Resilience From Portugal: Nos Campagnes en Resilience in...
"Some of the experiences that were shared during this meeting are so interesting and innovative that they deserve to be replicated in Portugal." Ana Fonseca, from the agro-ecological community Montado...
View ArticleGood Food Good Farming | People Across Europe Demand Better Food Systems!
As the European Commission is expected to publish a proposal for a Sustainable Food Systems Law in the autumn, Good Food Good Farming launched Food for Talk: days of dialogue that highlight the voices...
View ArticleFeeding Ourselves 2024 – Unpacking Protest, Agroecology and Local Food...
From March 21st - 24th, Feeding Ourselves is an opportunity for people and organisations working to strengthen local food economies and build a movement for agroecology, food sovereignty and rural...
View ArticleSustainable Food Systems | Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Local communities in rural and urban areas can be powerful changemakers when it comes to food system transformation, even when national and EU policies fall way short. At Feeding Ourselves 2024, a...
View ArticleTrue Bread – the Restorative work of Farmers, Millers & Bakers in Hungary
The Hungarian Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG) reports on the renewed interest - and importance - of short and local distribution channels, which are better able to meet the growing...
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