Project Pancake Flora – Plants and Nature Conveying Augmented Knowledge for Everyone In our December 2021 newsletter, we introduced the project PANCAKE which is being led by FoEMalta and includes international partners from 3 other countries with the aim to bring the silent world of plants accessible to the deaf community by creating new...
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Cane Vella about the challenges of farming in Malta
“The new CAP takes further steps towards a fairer distribution of income support and a greater targeting towards small and medium-sized farms.” (European Commission) The New Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is declared to be greener and fairer. In order to improve farmer’s situations a fairer distribution of CAP income support among farmers is promised by...
Coming soon: CAP quiz
Brush up your knowledge on CAP Friends of the Earth is putting you to the test! We have come up with a quiz to pick your brain about local farming within a larger context of European policy. Also we want to get your input as a consumer of local produce and products. So, we have...
Interview with organic farmer Jiří Prachař
Shall we be concerned by the decline of organic farmers? Are young people interested in this work? Can biodynamic and organic farming become the dominant model? Organic farmer and lecturer Jiří Prachař working in Germany, answers these questions in an interview. According to the European commissioner for agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski, the EU lost 4 of...