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Food as a Commons: Civic Actions for Change
Guest post on Food as a Commons by Jose Luis Vivero Pol. […]
Guest post on Food as a Commons by Jose Luis Vivero Pol. […]
by Gilles Billen, Luis Lassaletta and Josette Garnier Globalisation is not only a matter of clothing and mobile phones. Long-distance worldwide shipping of food commodities has also increased tremendously over the last few decades. Lassaletta et al.(2014) estimate that one-third of all proteins (a proxy for the nutritive potential of foodstuffs) produced globally are redistributed through international trade. Thus a recent study in France shows that the total volume of long distance commercial exchanges of food commodities, mostly originating from far away, account for over twice the national agricultural production (Le Noé et al., submitted). However, the positive value of a globalised food supply is being actively questioned. In industrialised countries, a citizens’ movement has arisen, sometimes supported by local public authorities, seeking to promote a local food supply. This movement aims to reclaim control of nutrition, re-create social links often destroyed by the extent of mass distribution, and develop the local economy. Developing countries are also attempting to strengthen their local food supply and recover part of their food sovereignty lost by decades of […]
[show-map id=’1′]We reveal just how fair and green CAP 2014-2020 really is.
Ramona Duminicioiu unpacks the initiatives and the issues around local food and government inaction […]
A report on the key ideas and outcomes from this civil society gathering held in Brussels 10-11th February […]
Karen Hansen-Kuhn & Hannes Lorenzen unpack the issues with TTIP & local food names in this long read. […]
In 2010 ARC2020 launched a “Communication from Civil Society to the European Union Institutions on the Future of Agricultural and Rural Policy” which was elaborated over six months and adopted by a broad alliance of civil society organisations and networks. The Communication was submitted to the European Commission, to the Council and the Parliament on the same day when the Commission published its first outline for a reform of the CAP. During the following debate and negotiations of the future of agricultural and rural policies ARC2020 has strongly advocated for a paradigm change in agriculture and food systems and for an economic, social and environmental renaissance of rural areas. ARC2020 has become a European Platform for a debate on the future of farming and food. Our #ARC2020 conference – Good Food, Good Farming and a living Countryside – is an opportunity for renewing our civil society’s agenda for the coming five years. We offer a framework for a ROAD MAP of goals and activities which ARC2020 and its partners could follow in the coming years, based on […]
EU Citizens want local food but governments are not doing enough to help, Friends of the Earth Europe’s new report reveals. […]
Over 900,000 people in the UK now use food banks, up from 313,000. Why? Peter Crosskey reports. […]
Civil Society and grassroots gathering in Brussels 10th – 11th February 2015 Register here. Follow the event live on twitter and facebook. The Agricultural and Rural Convention 2020 (ARC2020), Friends of the Earth Europe and IFOAM EU invite you to a civil society gathering and conference on February 10th and 11th 2015 in Brussels, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). This event brings together representatives from civil society, grassroots groups, researchers, national and regional authorities and policymakers to: 1. Assess the implementation of the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020 and its prospects of agricultural sustainability and of rural renaissance. 2. Identify milestones to support transition of food and agriculture systems based on agroecological approaches. You are invited to participate in the development of a Civil Society roadmap towards good food, good farming and a living countryside! Now is the time for the good food – goods farming movement in Europe to assess where we are, to develop a vision for where we want to be in 2020 and agree on a strategic roadmap how to […]
The UK’s FSA is getting weaker and weaker under a Tory government, as Peter Crosskey explains. […]
We’re excited about our upcoming conference, to help animate civil society on sustainable farming & food. […]
Southern Mediterranean Food Security Straddles Interests & Policies from both the Maghreb and EU. […]
Upcoming conference focuses on “feeding the five million”…and more. […]
The Sustainable Food Communication will not see the light of day before Janez Potočnik steps down. […]
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