Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7000 and 4000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an "inside job"? How were the new ...

After a two-month trip across the ocean and 50 days rowing upstream from Hudson Bay, the first European farmers in the west arrived at Red River in 1812. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's ...

That meant early Anatolian farmers had migrated, spreading their genes as well as their lifestyle. They didn’t stop in southeastern Europe. Over the centuries their descendants pushed along the ...

Faced with soaring costs and new environmental measures, many European farmers say their ... Meister stressed. "Farmers are the first ones affected when flora and fauna are in a bad way," she ...

In February 2023, I wrote a blog which described the sixty-year history of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), since it was established in 1963. Farmers in the now-27 member ...

In “Fantastic Mr Fox”, Roald Dahl introduces the farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean who are “as nasty and mean as any men you ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later ...

The European Commission has proposed a cap on duty-free imports of some Ukrainian produce after months of protests from European farmers. Under the proposal, oats, eggs, poultry and sugar could be ...

Europe's farmers have ramped up protests against EU measures and rising prices, with roads blocked in Poland, Hungary, Spain and Belgium. In western Poland some 1,400 tractors took part in a ...

Ursula von der Leyen pledged to guarantee a fair income for European farmers in her address to the ... the protests that swept across the EU in early 2024. While von der Leyen did not give details ...