Highlighting farmer’s voices
Farmers & field workers demanding change in agriculture policies!
Many farmers and field workers are already engaged in a sustainable transition process and want a change for our food and farming system. Yet, European policies often fail to support them. We demand policies that empower farmers and promote the transition to sound, sustainable farming.
Our work with farmers’ voices highlight their daily work, challenges and visions for fair and sustainable food systems! Videos and testimonials investigate who decides what we eat and who pays the price.
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Food Justice Video Series
Watch and share this video series, where we reveal the relationships between food, power and politics, featuring interviews with 25 activists, farmers and researchers from 11 European countries.
A few hands control our food system…
Farmers and food producers have the least say over the system they work within. Power over seeds, pesticides, machinery, processing, trade and retail sits with a handful of companies, and that market power buys political power too, through lobbying, industry groups and privileged access to regulators. The result: fewer choices and less voice for farmers, workers, small food businesses and the communities around them.
Who gets to become a farmer?
Across most of Europe, more than half of farms have nobody ready to take over. Since 2007, Europe has lost almost 2
million farms. This is not because people have stopped caring about farming. The next generation is ready to grow food, build
community farms and create new ways of working. But land, money, infrastructure and political influence are often out
of reach.
The industrial promise is breaking down
Cheap. Abundant. Convenient.
That was the promise of the food system. But cheap for whom? Abundant for whom? Convenient for whom? Around one in ten people in Europe still cannot afford a healthy meal every second day. Food prices are rising, almost a third of food is lost or wasted before it is eaten, and children are targeted by unhealthy food advertising online. So why do we keep rewarding the same system?
Another food system is already growing
Community-supported agriculture. Seed banks. Agroecological farms. Food councils. Free school meals. Food social security.
Across Europe, people are already building food systems based on cooperation, healthy food, shared knowledge and care for nature. Why are they still treated as the exception, while industrial food production continues to receive most of the investment and attention?
Why are we still investing in the past?
Every year, public money helps decide which kind of farming survives.
Public funding continues to support a food system dependent on imported feed, synthetic fertilisers and fossil energy. At the same time, powerful agribusiness companies lobby decision-makers, fund research and help shape the rules that govern food and farming. But food systems are designed. That means they can be redesigned.
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