Rural Europe Takes Action | Creating Alternatives, Creating Community
By ARC2020 Staff, ARC2020
Cargonomia officially was launched in 2015. It came out of the idea: how can we connect the farm, bike messengers and a bike workshop?
Rural Europe Takes Action | For Resilience and Peace – Political Action Now!
By ARC2020 Staff, ARC2020
Rural areas are wholesome spaces and only policies which take this wholesomeness into account will be supportive to rural areas where thriving societies live, work and evolve. We have gathered examples of how it works. The moment to start a new integrated rural policy is now.
Food Sovereignty, Climate Action and Local Resilience
By ARC2020 Staff, ARC2020
Beyond our local context, the Food Sovereignty movement provides a global political framework for change based on social justice, solidarity, empowering women and re- organising international trade and economic relations.
Collective Farming, Community and Connection
By ARC2020 Staff, ARC2020
In France, collective farms are quite common (known as a Groupement Agricole d’Exploitation en Commun, or GAEC). Social issues on the farm are central to farming in a collective set-up. But these farmers are also keen to look beyond the farm to build community and connection.
Livestock – Climate Destroyer or Saviour via Soil?
By ARC2020 Staff, Agriculture and Rural Convention 2020
Is the way we farm animals and turn them into food part of the problem or the solution to the myriad of social and environmental issues we face today?