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Banner Action against Germany’s GMO-Coalition

“Ban GMOs in the coalition agreement! It’s all in your hands, Angela Merkel!” This is what activists shouted yesterday in front of the Willy-Brandt-Haus, the SPD head office in Berlin, while prospective German coalition partners were negotiating. A huge banner displaying chancellor Angela Merkel’s hands in …

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7 Ways to Save our Tired Soils

Guest Post for ARC2020 by Louise Payton, Policy Officer at the Soil Association The Soil Association, UK organic certification body and also “the UK’s leading membership charity campaigning for healthy, humane and sustainable food, farming and land use and environmental charity”, have organised a Soil Symposium, which …

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Plastic Fantastic: Industrial Farming in Spain from Outer Space

A stunning vision of industrial farming: Here is what a part of Spain looks like on Google Earth. Read the article on plastic sheeting and see the impressive pictures here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/you-wont-believe-what-humans-can-accomplish-with-just-plastic-sheeting/281290/ Is this the kind of future for our food and our farming you want? Post …

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Go NUTs with Eurostat Atlas

NUTs in European Statistics stands for Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistic  and defines regions at different levels. Here, as an example, you can see the average size (hectare) of farms in the different NUTS-2 regions of the EU. Want to play out your own statistical …

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