The civil society organisation STEP believes that Bulgaria’s #CAP Strategic Plan must be corrected in order to be in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal, the EU’s Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategy. The essential changes to be made: arc2020.eu/bulgarias-cap-…

It's Easter in 🇷🇴🇺🇦 & we've donated to a bakery in Kyiv employing people with learning difficulties & distributing bread🍞for free to🇺🇦soldiers, police, hospital patients & elderly. They're baking Easter cakes (Pasky🇺🇦 / Pască🇷🇴) on Sunday. Donate here: eng.goodbread.com.ua♥️

The EU welcomed more #refugees in the first two weeks of Russia's war on #Ukraine than in 2015 & 2016 combined.

Solidarity with refugees is Europe at its best, according to MEPs Thijs Reuten 🇪🇺🌹, Marc Angel, & Nils Ušakovs (@TheProgressives) [promoted]. bit.ly/3xKGX4h

Happy New Year to all! It's great to find #RuralMentalHealth all over twitter this morning as the #Run1000 challenge kicks-off in the UK & New Zealand - a total of 8 super inspiring rural charities will benefit from the funds raised run1000.org/2022-charities 👏👏 #ruralaction

These messages from Mountain Partnership Food and Agriculture Organization about sustainable mountain tourism are sooo important for the Romanian #Carpathians !👏One of the reasons that we chose certified #ecotourism in Zarnesti-Piatra Craiului as our case study in the MOVING H2020 project eco-romania.ro/en/eco-destina… 😍

The village of Peștera lies at the heart of our case study on certified #ecotourism in the MOVING H2020 project. We're looking at the potential of such low impact tourism to build the #sustainability & #resilience of the beautiful (& vulnerable!) Piatra Craiului-Zărnești region

Winter is coming...☃️❄🌨
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Peștera, #Brașov #România
Foto Iulian Radu
#DiscoverRomania

Rural Sociology Wageningen European Coordination Via Campesina Hmmm, we read the report COMPLETELY differently - we see the 'Regenerative' (Bigger Ecosystem), 'Community-provisioning' (Growing & Sharing) & 'Lifestyle Farmer' (Change for a new life) types as framing an EXCITING FUTURE for a dynamic 'new peasant' farming movement #policylab4eu

Another powerful short film from the UK highlighting the pressures on #farmers & the dark shadow of their personal struggles with mental health. FARMWELL Project Tom Jones Lies Messely Alexia Rouby The Farming Community Network sahar. It takes 7 mins to watch it here: vimeo.com/507036647

Worrying developments in #Bulgaria with obvious serious 'back-sliding' by the Min of #Agriculture on existing commitments to #biodiversity conservation on High Nature Value #HNV farmland - is anyone in EU Agriculture🌱 following this issue? sahar #FutureofCAP arc2020.eu/support-to-hig…

On #InternationalWomensDay we're celebrating the wisdom, wit & wonderfulness of all women living & working IN and FOR our #rural areas - including our amazing @liaison2020 Rural Ambassadors from #Poland #pstragojcowski youtu.be/qZXbetsYUlM

Some fascinating insights from Romania into the tensions between the emergent progressive ‘new peasant’ movement & the innate conservatism of many rural communities -> 'misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

#FoodSovereignty , #Romania & the Rising #FarRight : new paper by Anna Hajdu and Natalia Mamonova ERPI Eco Ruralis European Coordination Via Campesina
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#obstacles #opportunities
#seeds #smallholders #farmers #PeasantFarming #HandsOnTheLand

Farming & Better Mental Health - take a look at this superb short film (14 mins) from The Farming Community Network in the UK, it's ground-breaking work & deeply touching. Respect! fcn.org.uk FARMWELL Project Alexia Rouby inge van oost Tom Jones Lies Messely youtu.be/B6U7oT_kdVk

👀👉Farmers' #mentalhealth , #resilience & the effect of the #Covid19 pandemic will be focus of a major new research project led by David Christian Rose at @UniOfReading -> highlighting the role of research & innovation as key element of covid response #AKIS reading.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Glad to see our work done in the ENRD Contact Point on #SmartVillages provides useful content for this Briefing of the European Parliament. My article is one of the main references in this Briefing! 🧐😱

Some other colleagues will see their work reflected!
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1/2 Reading on @EURACTIV 'Too much organic not enough meat and wine. That’s the take-home message from this week’s tense exchange of views between the Commission and the European Parliament AGRI Committee which saw MEPs blast plans for the new direction of the promotion policy'

WTF! More than 100 pesticides & 21 veterinary drugs (mainly antibiotics!) detected in 29 waterways in 10 European countries. Quarter of the chemicals identified are banned, while half of streams analysed had at least one pesticide above permitted levels: tinyurl.com/y654e749