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, by ÁLVAREZ VISPO Isa
We live in days when anger in the rural world fills headlines and screens. The European Union (EU) and its Common Agricultural Policy (the famous CAP) are identified along with the high costs and low remuneration faced by agriculture and the Mercosur treaty as the main causes of anger. But if we (…)
, 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. (…)
(Brussels, 7 of May 2013) The European Commission adopted a proposal on Seed Regulations on the 6 May.This proposal is now in the hands of the European Parliament and the Council.
The European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) denounces this incredible gift to patents and property rights of (…)
, 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 (…)
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 (…)
, 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 (…)
, 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 La Via Campesina
(Matola, 22 October 2008)The 600 delegates of Via Campesina gathered in Matola, Mozambique for the Vth Conference of the international peasant movement express their support for the 12 anti-GMO activists who were sentenced today by a court in Bourdeaux (France) to three months in prison with (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
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 (…)
Open letter of the European Farmers Coordination (CPE) and of COAG (Coordinadora de las Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos – Spain) on the consultation on the European legislation concerning the marketing of seeds.
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Is it really a democratic (…)
, by Greek Net for an Alternative Agricultural Policy
– The genetically modified rice should be immediately withdrawn from the greek market The country must be declared free area from GMO The Protocol on Biosafety must be immediately applied 1. The exposure of illegal import of genetically modified rice in the Greek market, as in (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
English presentation of the petition borrowed from Susan George website. For the text of the petition, see the French version of this document (click “translation” on the left side), or the url indicated above.
José Bové has once more been sentenced to four months in prison for uprooting (…)
, by Inf’OGM
Self-presentation taken from the association’s website, September 21, 2005.
I. General presentation
Inf’OGM is a non-profit organisation, created in 1999 in order to establish a francophone citizen watch on the GMO issue.
It deals with all GMO related current news in the world, and (…)
, by McGIFFEN Steve
Spectrezine editor Steve McGiffen, who was also adviser to the European Parliament’s United Left Group (GUE/NGL) at the time that the package of laws currently governing the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the EU was adopted, calls for a campaign to (…)
, by BOVÉ José
Following is a statement by Jose Bove, French farmer and unionist, to a French court during a trial on charges of destroying genetically modified maize. Bove is best known for actions against the McDonaldization of food.
The strength of our union movement rests on this determination to (…)
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