Sweeping changes are in store for British farming, but they’re not guaranteed to benefit struggling ecosystems.
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Green parties across Europe scored an all-time high in the European Parliament elections. Now, they’ll seek key reform on agriculture and trade – and could be kingmakers for Juncker’s replacement.
How the Brexit ‘divorce bill’ is calculated and what impact delays will have on it.
Digital innovations have the potential to empower farmers and revolutionise agriculture, but many could also lock them in to unsustainable methods.
As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit’s divisions.
Proposed reforms to the common agriculture policy (CAP) do not go far enough.
The self-confessed europhile will need to respond to concerns about the EU if he is to succeed as French president.
Though the Common Agricultural Policy has few friends, it will be incredibly tough to replace it with something better.
Whether or not farmers believe human activities are changing the climate (many don’t), an agriculture specialist urges them to pursue payments for techniques that return carbon to the soil.
The UK plays a crucial role in how the European Union engages with African nations. Post referendum, political and diplomatic norms will have to be re-imagined.
Britain’s new environment secretary has a tough job on her hands.
We only have enough food stocks to last 3-5 days, and Brexit has suddenly made things seem worryingly fragile.
Subsidies wouldn’t disappear overnight, but help for farmers would be gradually reduced each year.
Busting some myths about European farm subsidies.
It made the headlines, but the numbers don’t add up.
Spain’s most controversial sport has been in strife lately. But anthropologist Robin Irvine explains why a year working on a bull-breeding estate made him optimistic for its future.
The global food production system is inherently undemocratic. Based on shared experiences of the adverse effects, the world’s citizens need to intervene as democratic publics to transform a broken system.
It’s easy to poke holes in UKIP’s plans for agriculture.
The European Commission has announced emergency EU funding of €125m for fruit and vegetable growers hit by the ban imposed by Russia on imported Western food in retaliation for the West’s own sanctions…
The European policies designed to encourage a more biodiverse environment that is better able to support wildlife and plants are failing. In fact, our analysis of the reforms designed to “green” the EU…
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