At this year’s Wir haben es satt! Demonstration in Berlin, thousands of farmers, activists and consumers gathered in front of the Reichstag to demand bold action on agri-food policy, urging the next government to deliver fair prices, support for agroecological farming and decisive climate action ahead of a pivotal federal election. […]
Citizens voices are making noise in early 2023: Jan 21, in Berlin 10,000 turn up to march for a green, social agricultural future. And on Jan 19th, the EU Court of Justice announced the end of exceptions on the use of bee-killing neonicotinoids. Will the momentum spill over into the January 24th hearing at the EU Parliament? The Save Bees and Farmers citizens initiative will be presented and Members EU Commission Reps invited to exchange. […]
Soup & Talk – an event that celebrates food and farming changemakers all over the world – takes place on Saturday, January 21 from 4 – 7 pm CET. People working for fair and ecological food systems will present their successes, struggles and ideas in 5-minute interventions at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin. In person and livesteam options. So what’s happening? […]
Would you like to hear the story of an urban gardener in Syria? Or about the most famous hectare in France, growing hope in a back garden in Venezuela or peatland activists in Northern Germany? Action for fair and agroecological food system transformation takes countless forms – Soup & Talk brings together a global mix of innovative initiatives ready to share their grassroots efforts with the world. The Soup & Talk good food and good farming slam is happening via Zoom this Saturday, January 16th from 15:30 to 19:00 CET, and registration is free. […]
Running since 2011, Wir Haben Es Satt (WHES) has become Europe’s biggest gathering against industrial farming and for a fair and agroecological and food systems transformation. 2021 will see a unique iteration of WHES, with many activities happening digitally. With much of the action online, this also means that people all over the world can now join in. Here we introduce a core part of WHES, Soup & Talk 2021, which ARC2020 is helping coordinate. […]
Yesterday morning, several hundred protesters descended on Strasbourg to call on the European Parliament to reform the CAP acknowledging the serious climate and environmental crises. This was the closing action of this years Good Food Good Farming campaign which saw over 90 actions in 23 countries. […]
Following the lead of French, German and Italian food and farming coalitions, this March saw the launch of Coalición Por Otra PAC, a chance for Spanish civil society to join forces to push for a truly sustainable CAP. Marta Zygadlo reports on who the coalition is and what they are trying to achieve. […]
Beets, Beats and Better Bites with tasty treats, DJ tracks and dozens of tractors rumbling through the streets! What it’s the annual Wir Haben Es Satt (#WHES19) mobilization in Berlin. What’s happening – and why? […]
Public places in France – schools, parks, forests, roadsides – are no longer treated with herbicides, while more restrictions are coming in in 2019. Senator Joel Labbé has been the driving force behind these restrictions. ARC2020 has worked with Labbé to help bring his work to the European stage. […]
After the “We Are Fed Up!” demonstration is before the action! At the Soup&Talk event Farmers, organisers and activists from Germany, Europe and overseas reported on their campaigns, successes, their resistance and innovations in food and farming. […]
18,000 people took to the streets of Berlin on 21 January 2017. Together they demonstrated for healthy food, a more rural and ecological farming and fair trade. Farmers from all across Germany joined the demonstration. […]
Saturday 21st January sees another ‘Wir haben es satt!’ demonstration in Berlin. The negative impacts of the corporate control of agriculture – loss of farmers, loss of biodiversity, pollution, hunger, climate change and many more considerations show that agro industry is failing – We are fed up! […]
Europe’s strongest economy is seeing its farming sector decimated. At an incredibly rapid rate, both the number of farmers and the income of those left farming is nose diving. Why is this happening and what can – or will – be done? […]
Thousands of farmers, activists and concerned citizens converged on Berlin on Saturday to say – once again – We Are Fed Up with agro-industry! […]
It is high time that our food movement connects with cross-cutting issues that will define the future we want. Pavlos Georgiadis analyses the intersectional, cross-cutting rights issues that brought him to Berlin for Wir Haben Es Satt […]
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