European Coordination Via Campesina

More farmers, better food: Nyéléni ECA releases CAP publication

Press release Brussels, 25 Mar 2019

Sustainable small farmers should be put at the core of EU agricultural policy, according to a new paper released today by the Nyeleni Europe and Central Asia Platform for Food Sovereignty [1]. The strongly documented […] Continue reading

This March 8th, we too are going on strike!

Press release Brussels, 6 Mar 2019

The goals that gave rise to International Women’s Day continue to inspire us. They have become the rallying cry of the women and men in all parts of the world who are engaged in organised […] Continue reading

The Tarajal Massacre and our agricultural fields

Press release Brussels, 6 Feb 2019

The European Coordination Via Campésina and the National Federation of the Agricultural Sector (FNSA-Morocco) join the families of the victims commemorating today the Tarajal massacre. On February 6, 2014, 15 people died and others went […] Continue reading

Democracy instead of corporate power. Food Sovereignty instead of Free Trade: European peasant movement demands in Belgian-German border

Press release Brussels, 25 Jan 2019

Farmers and citizens from Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, “flattened” CETA and other free trade deals, in a symbolic action where the FTAs thrown on the ground and stomped on. Continue reading

CETA & Co.: an assault on the rights of farmers and workers

Article Brussels, 16 Jan 2019

In Europe, as in most of the world, free trade agreements (FTAs) have become the vessel by excellence through which multinational corporations and big business expand their conquest of new markets. Promoted as a panacea […] Continue reading

Amendments to EU Parliament CAP report: ECVC reiterates need to change agricultural model before EU institutions

Press release Brussels, 28 Nov 2018

Less than a week before finalizing the amendments to the European Parliament reports on the CAP post 2020, which will be delivered on 3 December by COMAGRI, the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) has mobilised […] Continue reading

The trouble with soy

Publication Brussels, 31 Aug 2018

Given the troubled history of commodity soybean production in Latin America, this has raised alarm bells for peasant farmers and those that believe in a more equitable and sustainable food system rooted in aroecology. Whilst […] Continue reading