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UN Right to Food expert demands radical change
Olivier De Schutter warned that current food systems must be redesigned. […]
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Food Sovereignty, Romania and the Rising Far-Right
The many challenges faced by Eco Ruralis and the food sovereignty movement in Romania are now compounded by the presence of the far-right in parliament. A recent study by Anna Hajdu and Natalia Mamonova discusses obstacles and opportunities. […]
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We Are Fed Up – Food, Climate & Rights on Berlin’s Streets
It is high time that our food movement connects with cross-cutting issues that will define the future we want. Pavlos Georgiadis analyses the intersectional, cross-cutting rights issues that brought him to Berlin for Wir Haben Es Satt […]
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“Food is our Right not a Commodity”
A forum and a demonstration for a living countryside and peasant agriculture in Spain […]
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Rights to Food – FAO milestone
Right to Food adopted as an integral part of UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Committee on Food Security policy […]
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Feeding Ourselves 2024 – A Food Revolution Starts With Seed!
Our Seeds4All project was back in Ireland in March to be part of Feeding Ourselves 2024. We are inheritors of a genetic commons that we have to protect. While working on the ground we need to be vigilant about what is happening at legal level – and work together. In partnership with the Irish Seed Savers Association, Seeds4All brought a European perspective to Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary. Adèle Pautrat reports. […]
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Feeding Ourselves 2024 – Unlocking Local Food Economies
The Feeding Ourselves gathering 2024 saw a diverse range of people and topics over four days in the Irish midlands. From policy analysis to deep listening, tactile workshops to building bridges the four days were a full spectrum of experiences. Here we summarise Friday, a local food economies experience for activists, enablers and organisers in this area. So what’s needed, and what can be done to help embed and amplify agroecological local food provisioning by communities, for communities? Oliver Moore reports. […]
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EU Food Safety Agency to Give New Opinion on New Genomic Techniques/New GMOs
The EU’s food safety agency will put together a new opinion on the categorisation of new genomic techniques – NGT’s – (also called new GMOs or gene editing) on the request of the European Parliament, following reports from multiple national agencies calling into question the scientific validity of the proposed criteria. […]
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Building Momentum for Agroecological Farming – EU Food Policy Coalition Expresses Solidarity with Farmers
Here we republish the text of the EU Food Policy Coalition letter, signed by a number of organisations, expressing solidarity with farmers in Europe. The context was the protest gathering that took place on 1st February, and the farmer protests more generally. A PDF of the letter and signatories can be found on the Agroecology Europe website. […]
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Pesticides, Food Systems, GM-nOs, GHGs… what to watch in Brussels and Strasbourg this week
EU plans to slash the use and risk of pesticides have fallen on the back of farmers’ protests, which have dominated both headlines and the political agenda in recent days. Meanwhile there are plenty of other discussions cooking in Brussels which could have far reaching consequences for the future direction of the sector. Natasha Foote brings you a run down of the latest from Strasbourg and what you should watch this week. […]
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ARC Lookahead – What’s on the EU agrifood policy menu in the coming months?
With the EU elections just around the corner, policy makers are scrambling to push the last of the agrifood files across the finish line before Brussels switches into election mode. This means the next few months could prove decisive for the future direction of the agrifood sector. Natasha Foote looks ahead. […]
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Let’s Talk About Food! The UK Project Starting National Conversations
The Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, a UK non-profit, is running the National Conversation About Food. Through this series of open dialogues, people across the UK are asked to share their thoughts on the food system. Findings from the first phase suggest public opinion is strongly in favour of more government action to improve the food system. […]
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Who will Deliver the Science and Research for a Sustainable Food System?
Who will deliver the science and research we need to support a sustainable food system? Currently, across Europe, we see that relevant R&D&E is done by an underfunded patchwork of institutions and definitely at an inadequate scale given the challenge. […]
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We Can’t Eat Promises! Good Food Good Farming month culminates in Brussels protest
“We can’t eat promises!” – The slogan of the Good Food Good Farming protest for a better food system, which took place in Brussels on November 8, 2023. The protest was the culmination of the Good Food Good Farming October Action Days, and highlighted the urgent need for transformative agri-food policies to realise key aspects of the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy. […]