Ferme à Paris - Farm in Paris!
From 31 May to June 1, the centre of Paris will be home to a farm!
Organised by ARC2020, La Confédération paysanne and PAC2013, the 2 day event promises to be a lively spectacle with food, speakers, animals and much more!
Find out more on the official website here
WE DID IT!!! Success for Europe's bees
On April 29 EU Agricultural Ministers voted in favour of a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides. Despite being scientifically proven to be harmful to bees, many Ministers did not support the ban during the first vote in March.
In the run up to the second (and decisive) vote we asked you to contact your Agricultural Minister - asking them to support the bees! And they did. A massive thank you to all those that took part!
Find photos from the action here
Read more about the campaign here
EU trialogue discussions on the CAP reform started on April 11.
Let's remind the Commission, the Parliament and the Council of Agricultural Ministers what Europe's citizens want!
POST YOUR CAP SNAP ON YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND ENCOURAGE FRIENDS TO TAKE ONE OF THEIR OWN!
Now is the time to make your demands widely known. Let's go!
Civil society Goes MAD - EU Parliament votes
From January 2013, in the run up to the final EU Parliament vote on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), citizens from all over Europe contacted their MEPs as part of our Go M.A.D. campaign (Go Meet A Deputy) to talk to them about Europe's food and farming policy and ask them what kind of future they would endorse.
Following the European Parliament plenary vote on March 13, ARC2020 thought it was important to summarise the results and see whether the Parliament had supported citizens’ demands for a green, fair and local CAP.
YOU CAN STILL GET YOUR HANDS ON ONE OF OUR PHOTO CAMPAIGN NEWSPAPERS - GET IN TOUCH TODAY!
To mark the success of 2012, we printed a limited number of special edition A2 broadsheet newspapers featuring all the photo messages collected to date.
Printed on heavy white paper, each page is a celebration to good food and good farming; a celebration to the diversity and beauty of Europe’s countryside; to the young and the old; and to those that have hope – they are a celebration to life!
Secure your copy today! Yours for a small donation they are a great way to remember all that we achieved together in 2012, and all the good work still to be done!
Please place your order here.
