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ECVC farmers and other small-scale producers have spent decades demanding fair income through market regulation, prices that cover production costs and a better sharing of public subsidies. At last, after months of mass mobilisations, this topic took centre stage in the recent European election campaign, with almost all political groups making promises to use European […]

Eleven organizations representing civil society and Indigenous Peoples across the globe welcome the statement by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) that it has officially ended its Letter of Intent (LoI) with pesticide industry lobby group CropLife International. We believe that this is an important victory especially for farmers, farmworkers and rural communities who

We invite you to join the presentation and discussion of the report from the in-person Grassroot Innovation for Agroecology (GIA) convening held in Italy in October ’23. Grassroots Innovation Assembly for Agroecology (GIA) Presentation & Discussion of the report of the in-person GIA convening in Gallese (Italy, Oct ’23) with 11th Hour Project, OpenTeam, FarmHack, Schola Campesina, and Maya Cohen, author of

WEBINAR INVITATION A look inside the pipeline: Artificial intelligence in agritech research and development  Tuesday May 7th, 16h – 17h CET In this webinar Wout Vierbergen, PhD researcher at the Flemish Research Institute for Agriculture and Fishery (ILVO), will give an introduction to the use of artificial intelligence in agriculture and food research. We will focus

 “Changing the Field,” a major farmers’ conference in dialogue with social and ecological movements, was held in Rome from March 1-3, (program here). “It is an event that puts on the agenda the need for convergence among those who want to bring out and strengthen agroecological alternatives to the industrial food system. We envisioned it

La Via Campesina is calling all its members, allied social movements, civil society organizations, and friends in academia and policy spaces – including those in governments – to join them in this effort of building a framework that can help build a fair system of trade, rooted in principles of food sovereignty and social justice.

Webinar From Farm to Server? The EU data governance framework and what it means for farmers in Europe 7 March 2024, 15:00 – 16:30 CET Over the past few years, the EU has developed a legislative framework for data and digital technologies and services. However, the impact of this framework on food and agriculture in