The European Platform for Food Sovereignty, along with other groups (see below) are campaigning for a better Food and Agriculture policy in Europe.
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- have brought out a declaration which you can find and sign on www.europeanfooddeclaration.org
- have presented an alternative to the present CAP, underpinned with data. Researchers have worked on this, taking Tom Lines' paper 'EU food and Agriculture Policy for the 21st Century' as a sbackground paper. click here for the English, French or Spanish version of Tom Lines' text.
See 'Library', CAP, for the scientific paper plished in Junhe/July 2010. It is called 'Proposal for a New Agriculture and Food Policy'. You will there find the paper and the annexes in English and French. Thew work was coordinated by Aurélie Trouvé and Jean-Marc Boussard, and signed by scientists from several European countries. Our organisations can use it to distill proposals to the European Commission. It was distributed a the big meeting Commissioner Ciolos organised 19/20 June. See also 'News / Home"
- lobby with other organisations and politicians
- in order to mobilise public opinion: organise a big European event , probably in August 2011 in Krems, in Austria, to be compared to the 'Nyeleni' event in Mali, Africa, in 2007
Motivation:
We are a broad range of organisations – farmer, consumer, environmentalist, altermondialist, public health and development NGOs – who are concerned with the future of food and agriculture in Europe. As in other regions in the world, the number of people and organizations that are working towards a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable food system is growing. Many of them are actively engaged in building a viable alternative to the current food production, distribution and consumption - from the bottom up. This new system of food and agriculture is firmly grounded on equity, the universal right to food, good governance and transparency.
A wide range of renewed activities such as increasing local food production, local markets, local procurement, seed swaps and so on has been emerging and growing across Europe. In addition new movements, such as the Transition Town movement, GM-free regions and national and local debates on food policy show increasing public support for another form of food and agriculture.
Yet, grassroots activities and local movements are not enough. We believe it is time to build a broad coalition of groups at the European level to challenge the current Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and the European Commission’s and our governments’ avowed plans for a renewed CAP in 2013. Their vision is, to keep the global ‘competitiveness’ of Europe’s food industry as the chief objective of Europe’s CAP. The political process for the new CAP 2013 has started. We believe a strong message is needed, not only for EU policy makers, but for policy makers in our countries – a vision for a CAP suitable for the 21st century.
We have created a “European Food Declaration: towards a healthy, sustainable, fair and mutually supportive Common Agriculture and Food Policy”. It outlines what we think the policy objectives of a CAP for the next decades should be. We invite as many organizations, groups and individuals as possible to sign this declaration and to use it as a tool to promote the discussion about what kind of food and agriculture policy we need. We also ask you to share this declaration with other grassroots, civil society, environment and food organisations that are actively engaged in building a better food system.
The declaration was the first step in our efforts to build a broad movement for change towards food sovereignty policies and practices in Europe, including the EU. We are also planning a Europe-wide forum in 2011 for people and organisations who are concerned about these issues and who would like to join forces in order to reach our common objectives together.
If you would like to know more or would like to be involved please contact greetg800@gmail.com We would especially welcome contributors from the Southern and from Eastern Europe.
Organisations supporting this initiative:
European Coordination Via Campesina
Friends of the Earth Europe
Several European Plattforms for Food Sovereignty
European Health and Agriculture Consortium
Attac Austria
Etc.
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