🛠️ Fix the agri-food system or miss climate targets, warns scientists The latest @esabcc.bsky.social report calls for a “systemic transition” to: 🌱 climate-proof our food and farming system 😷 protect public health and our environment 🐄 and reduce our reliance on feed and fertiliser imports 🧵👇

Everyone working in the #FoodSovereignty space: don't miss these fantastic insights from @robbieblake.bsky.social @ipes-food.org www.arc2020.eu/agroecology-... @eufpc.bsky.social #Agroecology #GoodFoodForAll #WeekendReads

A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it. Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Young people want to farm. But they can't afford to access land. If we don’t support a new generation of small- and medium-scale farmers, we risk food grown by fewer and bigger operators, and countryside hollowed out by #BigAg. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

By 2050, climate change could push food prices up 20%. Agriculture makes up 12% of EU emissions, yet agribusiness lobbyists block real climate action, like controlling harmful and dangerous levels of industrial animal production. #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays

A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it. Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

A coalition of leading scientists calls on the @ec.europa.eu to improve the protection of the environment, biodiversity and citizens' health against harmful #pesticides. They ask the Commission to drop the idea of weakening the pesticide regulation. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it 👨‍💼🤑 Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it. Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Big Agri and Food Businesses built a system where fresh produce is intensely sprayed with #pesticides & cheap junk food is all around. The diets they profit from are harming our environment and health, while public health costs explode. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Food corporations built a system where junk is cheap, everywhere, and aggressively marketed. The diets they profit off are making people sick - 800,000+ deaths every year - while public health costs explode. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Big agribusiness diverts the majority of cropland to feed not people - but *factory farms*. 🤔While claiming to be the solution to hunger. It's called HUNGER WASHING (ht @thinink.bsky.social). 🌱Let's feed people, not factory farms! #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Europe is losing its farmers. 5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations. Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe. Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms. That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Industrial animal agriculture consumes huge amounts of food, while millions go hungry 🚨 Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms. That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #FoodNotFeed

Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe. Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms. That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

🚨Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe. Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms. That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Proud to stand w/ 30+ orgs calling for a stronger, fairer, and future-proof post-2027 CAP. As #AGRIFISH debated #FutureOfCAP yesterday, we joined @eufpc.bsky.social in urging policymakers to shape a CAP that truly delivers for farmers, people, nature, climate, and farm animals. #MakeCAPWork 🧵 1/4

The Common Agricultural Policy should support a shift towards #SustainableFoodSystems: moving away from low-welfare husbandry while supporting nature-friendly farming and fairer incomes. As MEPs head into talks on this policy, here are key recommendations by the @eufpc.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/3LKI1hv

Together we call for: 🌾Fair farmer income support 🌱Create the economic conditions for the agroecological (e.g., organic) transition 🚜Make farming attractive 🌿Invest in ecosystems and support farmers in the transition ❌End harmful subsidies 💶EU budget that delivers @christophehansen.bsky.social

As #AGRIFISH ministers debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy, the FTAO joins 30+ organisations representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions calling for a #CAP that delivers for farmers, people & planet. Our recommendations to #MakeCAPWork⤵️ bit.ly/4oKi5kN

Together we call for: 🌾 Fair farmer income support 🌱 Create the economic conditions for the agroecological transition 🚜 Make farming attractive 🌿 Invest in ecosystems and support farmers in the transition ❌ End harmful subsidies 💶 EU budget that delivers on public goals

Today, 🇪🇺 #AGRIFISH ministers meet to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy. So here are some tips to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. Courtesy of 30+ organisations representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

We call for: 🌾 Fair farmer income support 🌱 Create the economic conditions for the agroecological (e.g., organic) transition 🚜 Make farming attractive 🌿 Invest in ecosystems and support farmers in the transition ❌ End harmful subsidies 💶 EU budget that delivers on public goals

🌱 As Agri ministers meets today to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy, 30+ organisations — representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions — publish joint recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. ✍️👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

Together we call for: 🌾 Fair farmer income support 🌱 Economic conditions that enable nature-friendly farming 🚜 A resilient, attractive farming sector to work in 🌿 Invest in ecosystems and support farmers in the transition ❌ End to harmful subsidies 💶 Spending that delivers on public policy goals

As Agriculture Ministers meet today to discuss the future of EU farm subsidies, 30+ organisations - representing farmers, civil society and national coalitions - share their recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature and climate. 👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u... #AGRIFISH

They call for: 🌾 Fair farmer income support 🌱 Create the economic conditions for the agroecological (e.g., organic) transition 🚜 Make farming attractive 🌿 Invest in ecosystems and support farmers in the transition ❌ End harmful subsidies 💶 EU budget that delivers on public goals @eufpc.bsky.social

🌱 As #AGRIFISH meets today to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy, 30+ organisations — representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions — publish joint recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. ✍️👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

🌱 As #AGRIFISH meets today to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy, #foodwatch and 30+ organisations publish joint recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

🌱 As #AGRIFISH meets today to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy, 30+ organisations — representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions — publish joint recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. ✍️👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

Together with 33 organisations of the @eufpc.bsky.social, we ask policy makers #AGRIFISH, to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, citizens, nature and climate. Let’s end harmful subsidies and support farming beyond #pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

We call for: 🌾 Fair farmer income support 🌱 Create the economic conditions for the agroecological (e.g., organic) transition 🚜 Make farming attractive 🌿 Invest in ecosystems and support farmers in the transition ❌ End harmful subsidies 💶 EU budget that delivers on public goals

#AGRIFISH meets today to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy. We joined 30+ organisations - representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions - to share recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. ✍️👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

🌱 As #AGRIFISH meets today to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy, 30+ organisations — representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions — publish joint recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature, climate & farm animals. ✍️👉 bit.ly/4pfSRe6 1/2

Agricultural intensification has led to the introduction of a small number of high-performing, specialised international breeds. This trend, coupled with the demands of intensive, industrialised livestock farming and global economic development, has led to a decline in local breed populations.

We are losing, across Europe, the unique genetic heritage of our local livestock — shaped by the hands and wisdom of generations of Europeans before us. This poses a serious threat to food security, human health and species adaption to environmental change.

Joining many of our participating organisations, we're proud to support the collective effort behind the European Citizens' Initiative #GoodFoodForAll! Starting 7/01/2026, we'll have one year to collect over one million signatures from EU citizens. Let's rise to the challenge!💪 www.goodfoodforall.eu

"Democracy is not a once-every-four-years exercise. Civil society is how people’s concerns reach power between elections – turning participation into accountability and preventing democracy from becoming a spectator sport." Spot on op-ed by colleagues at @eeb.org 👇 euobserver.com/eu-political...

#GlobalFertilizerDay 🤔 Should we celebrate? Did you know that... fertilisers are tied to soaring food prices 🍞💸? In 2022, as gas prices surged, so did food costs — leaving families skipping meals while fertiliser companies reported record profits. Time to make farming less reliant on fossil fuels!

Prevention starts on our plates 🥗🩺 Europe’s #1 killer? Cardiovascular disease🫀 The solution? Healthy, sustainable diets. On #WorldHeartDay, 20 CSOs + health groups urge EU policymakers to act: make healthy diets the foundation of the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan. Read their letter👉✉️ bit.ly/3KuOkFj

Cardiovascular disease costs Europe €280 billion/year 💸 and is the #1 killer. Tackling unhealthy diets is the most effective prevention. On #WorldHeartDay, 20 CSOs + health groups call on EU policymakers: put healthy diets at the heart of the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan. 🥗🩺👉✉️ bit.ly/3KuOkFj

🥗🫀On #WorldHeartDay, 20 organisations representing civil society, health associations and medical professionals say it loud: Europe cannot cut cardiovascular disease without tackling unhealthy diets. Read their letter 👉✉️ bit.ly/3KuOkFj

These are the main (food/farming/fisheries-related) initiatives for the year to come, together with a "Buy European food campaign" and a review of the implementation of the Unfair Trading Practices Directive to ensure fair prices for farmers 👇 #SOTEU commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

🌱 Dear @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, citizens across Europe want safe food, clean air, thriving nature & fair livelihoods for farmers and fishers — not deregulation that lets corporations cut corners. Which future are we shaping for our #FoodSystem? #DeregulationWave #SOTEU2025

Tomorrow, von der Leyen will address the EU Parliament with her SOTEU speech. Today, civil society and trade unions delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations: we need rules to protect people and the environment! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...

‪“𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀". These are stark words by Spain's Prime Minister as he was unveiling a new plan to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. He also stressed the role of sustainable farming in fighting it — and rightly so. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Us trying to keep track of the *many* public consultations launched by @ec.europa.eu over the summer... Not sure this is the best way to ensure meaningful public engagement...? In case you lost track, we've got you covered in the 🧵below (⚠️ some of these consultations close very soon!)

🌍 Today is #WorldOvershootDay, the date when humanity’s demand for natural resources exceeds what the planet can regenerate in a year. Europe’s material footprint is above the global average: www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/... Time to use resources wisely. ♻️ #CircularEconomy

With the Farm to Fork Strategy, the EU made great strides toward implementing a true #FoodSystems approach. Sadly, progress has stalled. This new @fao.org report is a timely reminder of why it matters — and how to get back on track! 💪 #ThinkFoodSystems