EU politics
Thomas Fazi: Reclaiming food sovereignty: an alternative approach to trade and agriculture
The European Union’s approach to trade and agriculture is damaging Europe’s farmers and threatening our food security Read HERE
Food Production
Climate Crisis
GPEnewsdocs: Gilles Billen – Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix
Gilles Billen shows that industrial agriculture, propelled by international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle. This has provoked the crossing of planetary boundaries and endangered the possibility of feeding the world. Alternatives do […]
Food Production
Alex Park – Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
From South Africa to Ukraine, five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Alex Park is a journalist and researcher based in California Cross-posted […]
Environment
Saeed Bagheri: The Silent Victim of Israel’s War on Gaza
More than 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been destroyed in Gaza since October. Read HERE Photo: RafahKid Kid/Creative Commons
Environment
Angela Hilmi, Emile Frison – Farmer Protests: The Wrong U-Turn
Farmers and the environment do not have divergent interests, quite the opposite. What European farmers don’t have any interest in is EU agricultural policies which impoverish them. Angela Hilmi is a panel expert with IPES-Food […]
EU politics
Marco D’Eramo: L’Europe profonde
Analysis of Europe’s Farmer revolt. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Environment
Morgan Ody, Vincent Delobel: Farmers’ protests in Europe and the deadend of neoliberalism
Scrapping environmental protections will not solve the agricultural crisis in Europe Morgan Ody is a vegetable farmer from Brittany, France and General Coordinator of La Via Campesina Vincent Delobel is a Walloon farmer, is a […]
Deregulation
Yanis Varoufakis: The EU cartel was designed to crush farmers – Rural workers didn’t stand a chance
Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to drive his tractor 400km to Athens to camp outside Parliament: “If I don’t, […]
Corruption
Natasha Foote – Parliament greenlights plans to loosen EU rules on new GMOs – but with key conditions
The European Parliament has given its blessing to the EU’s plan to loosen rules on new genetic technologies, but added key conditions on labelling requirements and a ban on patents – the latter of which […]
EU politics
Tomaso Ferrando – Address the root causes of European farmers’ anger
The demands of those on the farmers’ protests are complex, but they all agree that a food system that treats food like any other commodity is a root cause of the problem. Tomaso Ferrando is […]