Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
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, by CIRJAN Dan
According to the Eurostat statistics for 2016, one third of all farms in the EU can be found in Romania- roughly 3,600 thousand agricultural holdings. Similarly, the country boasts the largest share of labor force employed in agriculture in the EU, a staggering 26% of the population working in (...)
, by Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, Germanwatch, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Le Monde diplomatique, Oxfam, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat.
Takeovers and mergers like Monsanto by Bayer, Kraft with Heinz and Dow with DuPont are just the tip of the iceberg. A spate of corporate marriages is concentrating control at each link in the value chain, from field to fork. (...)
, by HOTL, Via Campesina (Europe)
Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe.
Executive summary
The report, involving 25 authors from 11 countries, reveals the hidden scandal of how a few big (...)
Position of European Coordination Via Campesina on the marketing of seeds, plant health and controls. Working document of December 5, 2012.
At the beginning of November 2012 the European Commission presented four non-official positions (“non-papers”) outlining new regulations on the marketing of (...)
, by Uniterre, Via Campesina (Europe)
Press release – European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) and Uniterre - Geneva – Thursday 20 October 2011
Between noon and 2 p.m. on October 20, more than one hundred sustainable family farmers, members of various associations and committed citizens met across from the International Union for (...)
, by VIVAS Esther
The growing impossibility of a dignified livelihood in the European countryside has provoked a widespread and active social response on the part of Europeans unwilling to sacrifice their society and environment to corporate greed. Farmers’ unions, environmental organizations, consumers’ groups, (...)
Brussels, Thursday September 10th, 2009
Dairy crisis: European Coordination Via Campesina supports the producers’ strike and calls for complementary actions.
The dairy crisis continues to worsen in the European Union. The inertia and absence of political will of governments and the European (...)
, by Collective
Malmö, September 2008
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, (...)
A new organisation to change the European agricultural policies
Brussels 1st of July 2008
The process initiated by the European Farmers’ Coordination (CPE) and COAG has culminated on June 27th with the public presentation of the European Coordination Via Campesina in the presence of Josep (...)
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