Reflections on recent work between Shared Assets and Eco Ruralis – By Kim Graham, Shared Assets Eco Ruralis and Shared Assets are amongst the 18 partners across Europe currently working on the RURALIZATION project (2019-2023), funded by Horizon 2020 to explore the opening of rural… Read More »On Common Ground
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
April 2017 With small farms disappearing at a fast pace, it has become extremely important for everyone to understand how crucial the small farms are to agriculture. Small farms contribute not only towards the local jobs and rural activities, but… Read More »Small farms in Europe – viable but underestimated
February 2017 In this paper, Eco Ruralis discusses how the common grazing lands are very crucial to the Romanian agriculture. Romania plays a pivotal role in European agriculture however there has been a significant decrease in the number of small… Read More »Small Farms, Commons and Land Grabbing in Romania
2016 This diploma thesis written by Adela Stanislavova explores the issue of access to land in Czech Republic by comparing with other europeans countries such as France, Germany and Romania. The thesis was supervised by Vratislava Janovska from the Czech… Read More »Access to Land for agroecological way of farming
April 2016 Who will be the next generation of farmers and keepers of precious Romanian lands? Whether as a result of landgrabbing or aging peasantry, small, agroecological farms are disappearing. The new Eco Ruralis report explores the urgent issue of… Read More »Farm Succession in Romania
Derek Freitas, Eco Ruralis, 2015 The word “peasant” is used in all sorts of ways to mean different things by many groups of people across the world. It is indeed very hard to define. This is particularly problematic due to… Read More »Peasant. Not a bad word but what does it mean?
2015 The debate on land has escalated in Europe. About time, campaigners would say! For several years, EU and national authorities were looking towards the Global South, witnessing the massive land grabs done in African, Asian and South American countries,… Read More »Land Grabbing in Romania
“Reinventing ecological peasant farming at the crossroad of tradition and innovation” This organic farm, located near Sibiu in the Carpatians, illustrates a new kind of farm in Romania, where tradition and innovation meet to form an emerging “new peasantry”. The… Read More »Jaglea Family Farm, Romania