In the final episode of Fields of Power, we step back from the land grabbing cases we’ve traced across Hungary and ask a ...

Three years on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian farmers are still struggling to navigate the lasting legacy of the ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in ...

In episode 3 of the "Fields of Power" podcast series, we head out onto Hungary’s great plains in search of people living ...

Here is episode 2! "The Land Grab Chronicles" moves from the aisles of a Hungarian supermarket into the hidden machinery of a political-economic system where land, food, and power are tightly ...

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 ...

Carbon Farming, isn’t the CAP doing it already? All parameters of soils are deteriorating in the EU. Erosion, compaction, organic matter decline, pollution, loss of biodiversity and salinization are ...

Typical landscape feature of LEADER area Steirisches Vulkanland – some of the 42 extinct volcanos shaping the area with its small settlement and production structures (Source: Bernhard ...

The transhumance is a privileged moment between shepherd and animal, an experience like no other. Both parties know what is expected of them, coming together as a ...

Quite quickly, Ireland has seen the kind of land concentration more familiar in other parts of Europe. Various pressures are coming to bare on access to land, including the desires of the very wealthy ...

In July 2023, Marianne Landzettel travelled to Northumberland, England to meet and interview four farm families. The resulting story portrays the difficulties upland farmers face as they navigate ...

In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience ...