Old Roots, New Shoots? Making Europe’s Food Production System More Environmentally and Socially Sustainable 14 September 2020 MADELEINE COSTE As the EU is reforming its agricultural policy and has published its Farm to Fork Strategy for a healthy and sustainable food system, there is no better time to demand food policies that are socially sustainable too. The Commission has made its environmental ambitions heard, but very few measures have been announced to protect the …
Private jets are flying agricultural workers to the UK from Romania during the pandemic 4 May 2020 Jack Coulton The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated with frightening speed how frivolous our modern society is, and how much we undervalue the people at the base of the pyramid: the ones who guarantee there’s food on the table. The centrality of food to our existence, its primacy among our activities, is unequivocal. Yet in a world in …
