Exploring the Links Between the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Land Issues The report “Exploring the Links Between the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Land Issues” offers a critical examination of how CAP policies since the 1960s have… Read More »New Report on CAP from Terre de Liens (France) now in english
2020 This report is part of a series of a broader assessement of environmental issues in Europe, conducted by the European Environment Agency in 2020. It focuses on land use in Europe, i.e. how land is used, for diverse human… Read More »Land use: state and outlook
Terre de Liens, the French civic movement promoting access to land for peasant, organic farmers, just released its first report on The State of Farmland in France. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the many pressing trends deteriorating the… Read More »New advocacy report: the State of Farmland in France, Terre de Liens
Over the past two years, several members of the Access to land network have explored innovative solutions to facilitate access to land for farmers as a way to contribute to generational renewal and sustainable rural development in Europe. In May… Read More »How to upscale innovative land practices in Europe?
Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe A collective of organisations, coming together under the banner of the Nyéléni Europe Food Sovereignty Movement have just released a new report: “Roots of Resilience: Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe”.… Read More »Policy Report: Roots of Resilience
December 2019 by Kim Graham, Shared Assets A new report, ‘Reviving County Farms’, has been published by CPRE, the countryside charity for England, in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation, Who Owns England?, and Shared Assets. Owned by local authorities,… Read More »Reviving County Farms in England
June 2013 On the 3rd of June 2013, Demeter International, Terre-de-Liens, Terre-en-Vue and Bioforum Vlaanderen conducted the conference “Land sharing models for sustainable agriculture – Proposals for land preservation, new land use and management practices”. The event brought together approximately… Read More »Land Sharing Models for Sustainable Agriculture
July 2019 The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce’s (RSA) Food, Farming and Countryside Commission has recently published its findings in a new UK report. Set up in 2017, the Commission’s review has been one of… Read More »Our future in the land
August 2018 The trouble with soy: the threats to small-scale producers across Europe is a 2018 report by Eco Ruralis and the European Coordination Via Campesina, which deals with recent EU activity on the topic of ‘protein independence’. Whilst there has… Read More »The trouble with soy: the threats to small-scale producers across Europe
September, 2018 Our organisations’ experiences in advising and supporting new farmers highlight the considerable hurdle of accessing land for farming. Access to land is now widely recognised as the number one obstacle to entering farming in Europe. Yet, the situation… Read More »Access to land for new entrants: innovative ways to enter farming and secure land