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I spent a month of my summer working in Switzerland, volunteering on an organic farm with my roommate. In summer 2022, I had a break before my last semester of college from my full-time classes ...
Switzerland already has a strong culture of protecting animals. ... “The bigger farms in Switzerland are not so sustainable,” he says, neither environmentally nor economically.
Farm Subsidies Debated in Global Trade Talks U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman is in Switzerland Tuesday to revive stalled global trade talks deadlocked over demands that wealthy countries ...
The reason why Switzerland is a hotbed of agricultural technology is due to the encouragement from the Swiss economics ministry. The government department has called on farmers to embrace a ...
The Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday that mostly small farm holdings were affected. Since 2000, Switzerland has seen a 12 per cent decrease in the total number of farms. However, the ...
Their findings came as the Federal Agriculture Office announced that nearly ten per cent of agricultural land in Switzerland is now farmed organically, compared to a European Union average of four ...
Switzerland calls on 25 September its citizens to cast a vote for the referendum to decide whether or not to abolish intensive livestock farming. The proposal has been put forward by a citizens ...
Dezeen School Shows: a project proposing methods to maintain alpine farming in the summer months is among the spatial design ...
Switzerland already has a strong culture of protecting animals. Activists say it should go further Switzerland Could Be the First Country to Ban Factory Farming ...
The Swiss will vote Sunday on whether to ban intensive livestock farming in the largely rural country, which already has some of the world's strictest animal welfare laws.
Yet the 40-year-old farmer fears he may soon be forced to either dramatically change how he raises birds, or shut down his farm altogether. On Sept. 25, the Swiss go to the polls to vote on an ...