Publications
Here you can find recent reports and publications on EU agri-food topics, including the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), pesticide reduction and sustainable food systems. You want to add a resource from your own organisation (national or EU level)? Simply send an email with the link to your document to info@staging.goodfoodgoodfarming.eu and we are happy to include it to our digital library.
Food, not feed – how to stop the world’s biggest form of food waste
Report by Compassion in World Farming (2025) on the food waste resulting from using food as feed.
Farming beyond pesticides – success stories from the field
All over Europe, farmers and municipalities are proving that food can be produced in a healthy, caring, fair and ecological way, without pesticides or with a minimal amount.
This report by Pesticide Action Network Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe (2025) showcases success stories of pesticide reduction.
Roasting the planet – Big meat and diary’s big emissions
Co-authored by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (2025), reveals the colossal, yet often overlooked, climate footprint of Big Meat and Dairy.
Who’s tipping the scales?
About the growing influence of corporations on the governance of food systems, and how to counter it.
Publication by IPES Food (2023)
Agriculture in the next European Budget: avoiding the status quo
Brief by IDDRI on the European Budget (MFF) (2025)
Europe Talks Farming
A study by More in Common based on over 1800 interviews with farmers in Spain, Italy, and Poland seeks to identify the challenges and roles of farming Europe.
From sustainability to competitiveness: What shifting narrativs means for EU agricultural policy
This brief by Institute for European Environmental Policy explores how shifting narratives in EU agricultural policy contribute to shaping policy design, funding priorities, and governance. (2025)
Towards a gender transformative CAP – SWIFT Policy Brief
SWIFT’s recommendations to address gender inequalities in the next CAP (2025)
Breaking the grass ceiling: Gender inequality in agriculture
A report analysing the inequalities and barries for female farmers in European agriculture (2025)
Contesting the politics of food – seeds of sovereignty
This dossier by the Rosa Luxemburg foundation (2024) brings together leading experts and thinkers on the food crisis such as Jennifer Clapp
and Raj Patel, in dialogue with practitioners and activists like Million Belay of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), which is directly involved in the struggle to create just and sustainable systems of food production and distribution.