Publications

Around the world, people and communities are active in defence of the commons, territories, and peoples’ rights. From peasants protecting their seeds and traditional practices from transnational agribusiness to forest communities resisting destructive logging, many of these collective struggles take place in rural areas. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People …

The UN Declaration on the rights of peasants as a tool for promoting collective rightsRead more  

Agroecology can serve as a pivotal strategy to achieve a number of crucial EU policy objectives, including reverting biodiversity collapse, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and reducing pesticide use. Together with 25 other organisations, we outline how to bring agroecological principles into policies governing EU food systems.

How to bring agroecology into EU food policiesRead more  

Together with over 20 other NGOs, we wrote to the European Parliament, Commission and Council to ask for increased transparency around final negotiations on the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. The EU’s flagship food and farming policy will account for €387bn of public money until 2027, and is of critical importance for Europe’s success in addressing …

Demanding more transparency in CAP triloguesRead more