The European Coordination Via Campesina has the pleasure to present its latest publication, Incorporating Peasants’ Rights to Seeds in European Law. Almost three years after the adoption of UNDROP, the objective of this publication is to review the current state of play concerning respect of peasants’ rights to seeds in the European Union and highlight which regulatory frameworks are problematic to the implementation of these rights.
On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks in Rome, 280 groups from 70 countries have signed a letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture, environmental destruction and corporate control of the food system. The signatories affirm only fully public and accountable funding mechanisms based on people’s actual needs can achieve real solutions to the global food crisis.
This report warns that the dominant picture of livestock’s impacts on climate change has been distorted by faulty assumptions that focus on intensive, industrial farming in rich countries. Millions of people worldwide who depend on extensive livestock production, with relatively lower climate impacts, are being ignored by debates on the future of food.
There is hardly any other food that fuels the climate and biodiversity crises as much as meat. Human rights violations are happening daily in the meat supply chain, not only in the Global South. However, no government in the world currently has a strategy to significantly reduce meat production and consumption. Moreover, banks and investors are financing the industry with billions of euros. If current trends continue, 366 million tonnes of meat will be produced worldwide in 2030 – with fatal consequences for people and the planet.
ECVC publishes a first training referential on peasant agroecology, the result of the work of six member organisations in the framework of the European Erasmus + project “P2P Agroecology, Agroecology exchange from peasant to peasant in Europe” which ran from 2018 to 2021.
Rural life is often hard, and even harder being gay, trans, bisexual, or any other gender or sexual identity beyond cis-heteropatriarchy. Through testimonies by peasant members of European Coordination Via Campesina and beyond, Embracing rural diversity shows that in our efforts for inclusion and acceptance of gender and sexual diversities, we can create new social structures. The publication calls for action to organise, so that we can make our voices heard and play a key political role in the transformation of the food system.
A collective of organisations, coming together under the banner of the Nyéléni Europe Food Sovereignty Movement released a new report : “Roots of Resilience : Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe”. The report argues for an approach to land policy in Europe based on a model of land stewardship and agroecology as key components of a sustainable agriculture model and resilient food system in Europe. Various pathways are laid out for securing this at local, national and European levels, including through opportunities provided by the new CAP, the European Green Deal, and the Farm to Fork Strategy.
Agroecology can serve as a pivotal strategy to achieve a number of crucial EU policy objectives, including reverting biodiversity collapse, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and reducing pesticide use. Together with 25 other organisations, we outline how to bring agroecological principles into policies governing EU food systems.
This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today’s dominant food regime. Agroecology is an ecological approach to farming that addresses climate change and biodiversity loss while contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Agroecology transformations represent a challenge to the power of corporations in controlling food system and a rejection of the industrial food systems that are at the root of many social and ecological ills.
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