Events
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17 June 2021 : Press Conference, The CAP reform according to ECVC small-scale farmers
Event Brussels,ECVC invites journalists at European and national levels to participate in a press conference to better understand the position of small-scale farmers ahead of the upcoming crucial CAP reform negotiations in late June. Continue reading
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14th June 2021 : Demonstration in Lisbon
Event Brussels,On 14 June, ECVC members from the Iberian peninsula and beyond will participate in a demonstration in Lisbon, organised by Portuguese member CNA, to defend the interests and rights of small-scale farming and voice their […] Continue reading
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17 April 2021 - International Day of Peasant Struggles
Event Brussels,17 April is International Day of Peasant Struggles and this year, we are organising a week-long campaign to underline that "Europe needs more farmers". #17April2021 #NoFutureWithoutFoodSovereigntY Continue reading
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25 February - Land Policy Report launch webinar
Event Brussels,Register and join the new Land webinar for the launch of the policy report : "Roots of Resilience: How CAP, Farm to Fork, and land policies can support an agroecological transition in Europe" | 25/2/21, […] Continue reading
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24 February - Webinar : The Right to Seeds in Europe
Event Brussels,This event aims to bring representatives of peasant organizations, seed networks, parlementarians, academics and experts from Europe, in order to discuss how Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants, which […] Continue reading
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16 July - Land Webinar n. 3 : ”Access to Land for Youth”
Event Brussels,During this third webinar, ECVC's members from Toekomstboeren (Netherlands) and Uniterre (Switzerland) will share their experience on access to land issues and solutions for young farmers. Continue reading
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7 July - Webinar "Food Sovereignty and the Farm to Fork Strategy: Building a fairer and more just agricultural model in the EU"
Event Brussels,European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), as the only European organisation that represents small and medium-scale farmers, peasant farmers and agricultural workers, together with its allies thinks that this is time to relaunch a different political […] Continue reading
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2 July - Land Webinar n. 2 : ”Local Land Actions: The Struggle for Land from the Ground Up!”
Event Brussels,During this webinar, speakers from the Ecological Land Cooperative (UK), Confédération paysanne (France) and Ampi (Czech Republic) will share their experience of working land issues with local communities. Continue reading
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16 June - Webinar “Your Land, My Land, Our Land: Grassroots Strategies to Preserve Farmland and Access to Land for Peasant Farming and Agroecology”
Event Brussels,The Nyéléni Europe and Central Asia Food Sovereignty Network (Nyéléni ECA) launches a practical tool to support and strengthen land struggles for small and medium-scale food producers and local communities. Continue reading
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20 February - Event: New GMOs, Patents and the Peasants’ Rights to Seeds in Europe
Event Brussels,ECVC is organising an event to explore how patents on seeds are negatively impacting small and medium seed enterprises and Peasants Rights to seeds: will the European Union take advantage of the lessons learnt? Continue reading
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30th of September: Public Conference: Peasants’ Rights in Europe
Event Brussels,The event aims to bring together representatives of UN agencies, European Union institutions, academics, experts and peasants from Europe in an exchange of views to promote the implementation of the UNDROP in Europe. Continue reading
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Bucharest June 2019 - Events : for the Rights of Peasants and a humane Common Agricultural Policy
Event Brussels,International events in Romania for the Rights of Peasants and a humane Common Agricultural Policy. ECVC, together with Eco Ruralis – the Romanian peasants association, together with partners, are proud to announce the organization of […] Continue reading
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8-9 APRIL | CONFERENCE-ACCION | A plate of suffering: exploitation of foreign workers and agricultural labour intermediaries
Event Brussels,The presence of labour intermediaries is principally linked to production methods and the interests of the agroindustry. The latter, supported by the system of generalised competition in agri-food markets, requires an ever increasing need for […] Continue reading
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25/01 : STOP CETA & Co.! Belgian – German border
Event Brussels,On the 29 January the ECJ will render its decision on the compatibility of the ICS with EU law. Against this backdrop, we, the European peasant movement, want to, once again, send a strong signal […] Continue reading
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25th of September: Mobilization: We are fed up of your EU agricultural policy!
Event Brussels,With cooking pots and spoons we are going to get loud on September 25th and to remind the ministers that it is our future they decide on. Continue reading
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17 April : Farmers converge and rally in Brussels against free trade deals
Event Brussels,In this international day of peasant struggles, commemorating the resistance and in defense of peasants persecuted across the world, farmer organisations from Belgium, France, Spain and even as far as Canada, converged with other social […] Continue reading
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27 of April: RECOGNITION and the PROTECTION of the RIGHTS of the Small - scale Food Producers
Event Brussels,The CSOs Consultation prior to the FAO 31st Regional Conference in Europe and Central Asia in Budapest, 26-27 April 2018, is an opportunity for organisations across Europe and Central Asia to discuss recognition and protection […] Continue reading
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April 17 - CALL FOR ACTION : Free Farmers from Free Trade Agreements!
Event Brussels,MERCOSUR, CETA, JEFTA ARE A DEATHBLOW - DEMONSTRATION - Tuesday, April 17, 9:00 a.m. Schuman Roundabout - Brussels. Livestock farmers, peasants, citizens, let us unite in Brussels this Tuesday 17/04 against the EU-Mercosur and other […] Continue reading
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May 23 - Conference "A CAP for small scale farmers & citizens"
Event Brussels,In the context of the CAP reform, ECVC is pleased to invite you to its conference "A CAP for small farmers & citizens", organized at the European Parliament on the 23rd of May 2018. With […] Continue reading
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16th to the 24th of July - "Feeding the people and building the movement", La Via Campesina heads to its VIIth Conference
Event Brussels,The International Conference of La Via Campesina (LVC), held every four years, is the highest forum gathering representatives from member organisations from all over the world. Collectively representing over 200 million people, these delegates will […] Continue reading
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Peasants' Rights Declaration 15-19 May : Updates from Geneva
Event Brussels,Updates on the week-long negotiations and interventions in Geneva of the international peasant delegation of La Via Campesina and its allies for the 4th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on a UN Declaration on […] Continue reading
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La Via Campesina: VIIth International Conference - Press Kit
Event Brussels,The international peasant’s movement La Via Campesina invites journalists from around the world to cover our VIIth International Conference, which will be held in Derio, Bizkaia (Basque Country), 16th – 24th July 2017. This will […] Continue reading
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Int'l Day of Peasant Struggles 2017 | Call to Mobilise!
Event Brussels,Peasants Rights, Human Rights! Advance toward UN Declaration on Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas! Continue reading
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Access to Land for Farmers in the EU: Conference Report
Event Brussels,ECVC co-organised an event to discuss the problems of access to land in Europe. The conference took place in Brussels on 7 December 2016. The full report of the conference in now available. Continue reading
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MOBILIZATION CALL Rome - March 25, 2017
Event Brussels,All together this 25 MARCH for a CAP that serves the Peoples! We call on ECVC's member organizations, allied groups, grassroots networks, and the whole peasant and food sovereignty movement in Europe to mobilize this […] Continue reading
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7-10 March: International Congress on Global Peasants' Rights
Event Brussels,Registrations to participate in the International Congress on Global Peasants' Rights are now open. The event - co-organized by ECVC along with the Haus der Bauern, FIAN and other civil society organizations- will be held […] Continue reading
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Food Sovereignty within a new Agricultural Policy
Event Brussels,Hosted by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, the hearing "Food Sovereignty within a new Agricultural Policy" in the EU Parliament this morning in Brussels moved discussions regarding the coming reform of the CAP beyond […] Continue reading
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TTIP: Trading away our food and farmers?
Event Brussels,Invitation to a breakfast discussion with representatives from Friends of the Earth, ECVC, the EU Commission and the US's Center for Food Safety on the impacts the TTIP could have on farming and food production […] Continue reading
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Public hearing on "New exceptional market measures limiting milk production"
Event Brussels,Given the continued intensification of the dairy crisis and pushed by producers, an extraordinary meeting will be held in Brussels on May 25 gathering representatives from the main European institutions, political parties, as well as […] Continue reading
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Food Otherwise Conference 2016
Event Brussels,Over a 1000 people visited Wageningen on February 12th and 13th 2016, for the second edition of the Voedsel Anders Conference. The two-day event addressed the transition to fair and sustainable food systems. Continue reading