Malta and Gozo’s agricultural landscape is characterised by small-scale farms. With land being difficult to acquire or subdivided into awkwardly small plots over several generations, our islands’ farms are uniquely small. Despite their size, these farms are vital to keeping the island’s rural landscape lush, green and well preserved. Farmers also produce an abundance of...
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CAP Exhibition
Malta and Gozo’s agricultural landscape is characterised by small-scale farms. With land being difficult to acquire or subdivided into awkwardly small plots over several generations, our islands’ farms are uniquely small. Despite their size, these farms are vital to keeping the island’s rural landscape lush, green and well preserved. Farmers also produce an abundance of...
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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...
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Short films – Food Systems & Alternative Agriculture
Friends of the Earth Malta will be hosting a curated online short film selection, showing films that touch on food systems, alternative agriculture, and humans’ relationship with animals. The films will be accessible for only 4 days from the 10th to 13th December. This event is part of the Meatless Monday project, which aims at...
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Seed Saving
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Working Group Meetings
To make sure that everybody can participate in public decision making concerning the environment and human right respect, we are creating 2 Working Groups around the topics below: 🍋 Food, Agriculture and Biodiversity, 🐝 🌏 Climate Change, Democracy and European Green Deal. If you want to commit yourself in an active environmental NGO in Malta,...
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Open call for volunteers
To make sure that everybody can participate in public decision making concerning the environment and human right respect, we are creating 2 Working Groups around the topics below: 🍋 Food, Agriculture and Biodiversity, 🐝 🌏 Climate Change, Democracy and European Green Deal. If you want to commit yourself in an active environmental NGO in Malta,...