Seeds are life, not commodities! EU proposals threaten biodiversity with patented seeds. Farmers must decide our food's future! 👉 www.eurovia.org/publications...

Beyond GM has sent a pre-action letter to Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed, putting the government on notice that we intend to pursue a judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations 2025. Read more and DONATE to our @CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...

Hundreds of people, including @cicrocevia.bsky.social, took to the streets in Parma over the weekend to protest against the proposed deregulation of new #GMOs (NGTs). They oppose all attempts to remove traceability, labelling, and risk assessment for genetically modified and patented lab organisms.

📢One week left to apply for the role of Communications Officer at ECVC! We're looking for someone to join our Brussels-based team, focusing on social media strategy & management, content creation & storytelling and digital communication. Deadline 1 June: www.eurovia.org/wp-content/u...

@eurovia.org reaction to the Agriculture simplification package of May 2025 by the Agri commission

Minister Lollobrigida demands more info for consumers through labeling but supports NGTs. The proposed new regulation will rather remove requirements to label NGTs, removing consumer choice. Contradiction shows how false "tecnofixes" are really to increase big-agri profit & control! #EUAgriVision

Great to hear Rural Youth Europe underline the importance of fair prices and being able to make a living from farming, as was underlined in yesterdays Youth Policy Dialogue. This must be at the centre of generation renewal if we want farming to be attractive to young people #EUAgriVision

ECVC Youth Policy Dialogue representatives so far disappointed - @christophehansen.bsky.social promises to take youth input seriously but has failed to focus on key consensual priorities so far. Young farmers must be heard and included in the vision, not placated. #EUAgriVision

Hopefully the commitment to supporting youth, women and diversity among farmers are is more evident than in today’s first panel. The Youth Policy Dialogue and Women in Farming Platform must not be siloed but rather lead to structural consultation of these groups in policy spaces #EUAgriVision

The @ec.europa.eu and @christophehansen.bsky.social insists we need “evolution not revolution” - but farmers cannot survive under the current status quo. 3 million farms have been lost. Only real change will protect the 9 million remaining and support new farmers in the sector. #EUAgriVision

“Over the last 10 years the EU has most 3 million farms and we need to protect the last 9 million farms that remain. […] We need to support young farmers to enable them to start farming to give them access to knowledge, credit and land” - @christophehansen.bsky.social

Ready to defend the demande of small- and medium-scale farmers at today’s #VisionConference with @christophehansen.bsky.social.

🚨Food prices are soaring. Farmers are underpaid. Nature is in crisis.🚨 As EU leaders attend the Conference on the Vision for Agriculture and Food, we demand support for farmers and green, resilient food systems🌱👩‍🌾 👉Watch our video to see why farmers and citizens are demanding they #FundOurFuture

📢 This week, ECVC publishes its position on the post-2027 CAP, demanding fair prices, more farmers and a transition to social, sustainable and agroecological agri-food systems. Read more 👉 www.eurovia.org/publications...

📢How does digitalisation affect a just food system? Read ECVC's 25 recommendations to ensure that digitalisation in agriculture doesn't reinforce corporate power or exacerbate existing inequalities but rather advances food sovereignty and security! 👉 www.eurovia.org/publications...

🧑‍🌾Today, as part of the International Day of Peasant Struggles, the ECVC launches its campaign to put agrarian reform and fair (re)distribution of land at the heart of the political agenda in Europe. Check out the thread! 👉 #17April #PeasantStruggles

📢⚠️Trump's trade war will greatly impact agriculture, hitting farmers who export goods and those facing more competition on the domestic market. But, new FTAs are not the solution! Europe must decrease dependencies and strengthen food sovereignty! 👉: www.eurovia.org/press-releas...

✊ECVC stands in solidarity with our Romanian member organisation Eco Ruralis and the Federation of Beekeeping Associations of Romania-ROMAPIS in their efforts to uphold environmental justice and the rights of peasant farmers and beekeepers. Read here: www.eurovia.org/news/ecvc-st...

📣 👩‍🌾 Alnarp's Agroecology Farm was started in 2021 by a group of passionate Agroecology master’s students. See what the experience means to some members! “As a queer member of the community, I think the farm is a really important part of my life." fb.watch/yPl1CqMZXq/ #SWIFTproject #ECVCspotlight.

📣Conférence internationale des chercheurs et des paysans – quelle suite pour continuer le momentum ? 🎥 Regardez et partagez l'aftermovie de la conférence : youtu.be/cj3PulBq2BU 📚 Lisez et partagez les contributions à la conférence : www.eurovia.org/fr/publicati...

📣Members of the EP Environment Committee cannot allow ownership of peasant and traditional seeds to be stolen by the patents of a few multinational seed companies! The EP must not approve the negotiating mandate to open the trilogue on new GMOs! 👀 👉 www.eurovia.org/news/open-le...

Ailbhe Gerrard runs Brookfield Organic Farm, an organic farm in Tipperary. Find out her story, how she got started and some of the unique challenges and opportunities that come with being a female farmer in Ireland. vimeo.com/1058593705/0... #SWIFTproject #ECVCspotlight

«¡Exigimos reconocimiento, dignidad y políticas públicas feministas!» ¡Las mujeres campesinas constituyen la revuelta campesina! Profundiza en algunas de las luchas y reivindicaciones de las mujeres campesinas del País Vasco www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWoT... #SWIFTproject #ECVCspotlight

"The proposed legislation still threatens farmers' livelihoods and the future of sustainable agriculture in Europe." ECVC has long since been warning of the dangers of patents and calls on EU Member States not to support the proposal! www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

‪ Today, ECVC Women's Articulation and CSOs write to @christophehansen.bsky.social to demand the @ec.europa.eu Vision for agriculture promotes the participation and position of women and achieve gender equality objectives! Read more: www.eurovia.org/news/ecvc-wo... #SWIFTproject #ECVCspotlight

♀️👩‍🌾Demain, c'est la Journée internationale de la femme et le lancement de notre campagne « Mettre en lumière les groupes marginalisés dans l'agriculture » Lisez notre appel à l'action : www.eurovia.org/news/call-fo... Puis partagez votre histoire avec les hashtags #SWIFTproject & #ECVCspotlight !

To finish the conference, Morgan Ody presents the alternative trade framework being developed by La Via Campesina - “As peasants, we are developing an alternative to the WTO, to support the food sovereignty of each country.”

Day 2 of the International Conference of Researchers and Farmers is in full swing! Join us at 14:30 on the live stream for the plenary sessions: www.youtube.com/live/74HyTOA... #marketregulation #fairpricesforfarmers

Christophe Alliot (Le BASIC), explains that in France, public money is used to support a small number of big companies, not only through CAP, but also tax cuts and other subsidies. These companies practices have negative impacts on society: health, environment, working conditions

Andoni Garcia Arriola, from ECVC Coordinating Committee, declared : "as farmers, as ECVC, we are hopeful. We have been demanding for years to have prices that cover production costs, and in this moment we have hope that in the next PAC, these demands will be taken into account"

Prices, access to land and international food sovereignty are necessary to have thousands of young and new people installing in agriculture. ECVC Youth shared @christophehansen.bsky.social our priorities for the Generational Renewal Action Plan to be published this year.

Commisisoner @christophehansen.bsky.social on targeted subsidies “You have some companies - I don’t want to call farmers – they get CAP money but they are huge industrial consortia that have the whole value chain in their hands. 1/2

Comienza la Conferencia Internacional de Agricultorxs e Invedtigadorxs de @eurovia.org en la Universidad Libre de Bruselas "Precios Justos para los agricultorxs" #FairPricesForFarmers #MarketRegulation

Good to hear @christophehansen.bsky.social recognise that “farmers want to live from their work and not from subsidies”. Today’s conference is a key opportunity to co-construct knowledge with farmers, academics, policy makers and CSO to address the need for fair prices via market regulation!

Today, farmers, academics, policy makers and CSOs gather to address the need for #Fairpricesforfarmers. Join the livestream now for @christophehansen.bsky.social’s view on the CAP: tr.ee/hrG3kV2amh

Tune in next Monday for @christophehansen.bsky.social's take on refounding the CAP at the International Conference of Researchers and Farmers. Farmers need fair prices and with academics, policymakers and NGOs, have solutions for a fairer food system. Info & livestream: linktr.ee/marketregcon...

👩‍🌾💭Farmers and academics across Europe are calling for fair prices for farmers through market regulation. Swipe to find out why this is crucial for our food systems, and why we need to act now.👉 How? Join us on Monday to find out: linktr.ee/marketregcon... @christophehansen.bsky.social

ECVC calls on the Member States of the European Union to reject this new proposal, as well as the Commission's initial proposal, and to maintain the application of Directive 2001/18. It is the only legislation that is fit to guarantee the protection of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📣📆One week to go before the International Conference of Researchers and Farmers in Brussels! Watch the live stream as farmers, academics, policymakers & NGOs discuss how to ensure fair prices for farmers through market regulation. Info & live stream: linktr.ee/marketregcon...

📣“There are deep contradictions between the promises for fairer prices on one hand and, on the other hand, the push for digitalization and to increasingly liberalise global markets” @eurovia.org welcomes the #Vision on #Agriculture but warns against false solutions.

🌱At the ORFC @landworkersuk.bsky.social & @viacampesinabe.bsky.social gathered peasants, landworkers, youth, trade unionists & activists to discuss what being a social movement means & why it’s key for agroecology & food sovereignty. 🎥 Watch here: orfc.org.uk/orfc-archives/ Sessions by LVC & LWA👇

ECVC welcomes progress on fair prices, generational renewal & land access, but warns that exports, industrialisation & digitalisation contradict promises to protect farmers & block the transition we need. We demand fair prices, land regulation & a new trade model. 🔗: www.eurovia.org/press-releas...

A new EU law could deregulate GMOs, endangering small & medium farmers.🍃💔 @poland25eu.bsky.social wants to push it through with EU governments on 14/02. ❗We urgently call on EU leaders to reject this deregulation❗ www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/nature-food/47394/joint-statement-on-new-gmos

Alvaro Arreta from COAG and Mathieu Courgeau from @confpaysanne.bsky.social strongly asked for better prices for farmers and to ban the purchasing of agricultural products under production costs. Spain’s Ley de Cadena shows us the way and the French EGALIM law shows pitfalls to avoid.

🧑‍🌾ECVC representative Vitor Rodrigues outlined the priorities for peasant farmers at the #EBAF this week. To continue feeding communities, farmers need: - Market regulation for fair prices - A fairer CAP - Generational renewal - An EU land directive

Good meeting with Christophe Hansen today to discuss ECVC's priorities: fair prices for farmers, ending FTAs, generational renewal and our proposal for an EU land directive. We look forward to continuing work on these priorities tomorrow at the European Board on Agriculture and Food! @ec.europa.eu

NO TO MASSIVE IMPORTS OF FAKE HONEY In an initiative driven by COAG (member organisation of ECVC), Spanish, French and Portuguese beekeepers demonstrated on 28 January in their respective capitals against the massive imports of fake honey. STOP EU-MERCOSUR www.eurovia.org/press-releas...