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1. Fair incomes for farmers: prices or subsidies?
• 1.1 - Support of agricultural incomes: market price support or coupled payments versus decoupled payments; The issue of subsidy distribution
- Trade regulation, a condition for a decent income for farmers and for food sovereignty (Matthieu Courgeau, La Confédération paysanne, France)
- Towards an agro-ecological transition and market regulation in the Pyrenees of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Ludivine Bonnet, Maud Babut, & Lilian Brouat, AgroCampus64, France)
- Supporting the small market gardening sector in France: comparison of two policy options (Pauline Lécole, Montpellier SupAgro, France)
- Proposal of a new inequality indicator to the Common Agricultural Policy in Portugal (Miguel Viegas, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
• 1.2 - Supply management and international trade negotiations
- Quantum or “differentiated prices”: an agricultural policy proposal (Morgan Ody, La Confédération Paysanne, France)
- Agricultural negotiations: Market regulation in Norway (Nora May Engeseth, Norwegian Farmers' and Smallholders' Association, Norway)
- Milk quotas in France and Germany between 1984 and 2015 (Eugénie Moret & Anouk Bassou Sciences Po Paris, France)
- Food sovereignty in the European Union: from the Treaty of Rome to the Green Deal (Daniele Bianchi, Independent researcher, Italy)
• 1.3 - The current Common Market Organisation, avenues for reform, crisis prevention and management
- Shaping future – CAP post 2027 – Connections between CMO and other CAP elements (Henrik Maaß, Arbeit-gemeinschaft bäuerliche Land-wirtschaft (AbL), Germany)
- Contradiction between the farm-to-fork strategy and the common organization of the market of the CAP (Ana Rodriguez Sindicato Labrego Galego (SLG), Spain)
- After thirty years of CAP deregulation, what market regulation tools do we need to reinstate to rebuild Europe's food sovereignty? (Frédéric Courleux Agro-economist, France)
• 1.4 - Fair farm prices and production costs
- Small farms, farmers' market, fair prices, between reality and desire (Antonio Onorati & Pier Francesco Pandolfi Associazione Rurale Italiana (ARI), Italy)
- AgrarBündnis project ‘Shaping agricultural markets sustainably’ (Bernd Voss, Arbeit-gemeinschaft bäuerliche Land-wirtschaft (AbL), Germany)
- Home slaughter of pigs. Public policies and resistance in Catalonia, Spain. (Agata Hummel & Paula Escribano, University of Warsaw, Poland/University of Barcelona, Spain)
• 1.5 - Fair farm prices to enable sustainable agricultural practices, from a triple viewpoint: economic, environmental, social. (1)
- Socially equitable and ecologically sustainable agricultural reference pricing: inspirations from the true price method (Pietro Galgani True Price, Netherlands)
- A critical review of EU agri-food policy impacts (Anne-Maud Courtois & Diana Borniotto Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Fair prices for fair wages in the agro-food chain: is farm production efficiency the missing link? Evidence from the processing tomato sector in Italy (Gaetano Martino University of Perugia, Italy)
• 1.6 - Fair farm prices to enable sustainable agricultural practices, from a triple viewpoint: economic, environmental, social. (2)
- Agro-ecological transition and the Common Agricultural Policy: current situation and outlook in arable crop regions. The case of Champagne (Eva Guilman, Nadège Garambois & Quentin Delachapelle, AGROPARISTECH - UMR Prodig, CIVAM de l'Oasis, France)
- Fair prices: we're not there yet... (Marie-Aline Cornu FUGEA, Belgium)
- BioBrez takes on the challenges of tomorrow (Sylvain Morvan BioBreizh, France)
• 1.7 - Learning from the milk sector: learning from experience of quotas, price calculation, market regulation; European policy global impact
- Reforming the European Dairy Sector: Challenges and Pathways Forward (Kjartan Poulsen European Milk Board (EMB), Denmark)
- Rethinking the regulation of the milk market and agricultural markets in Europe (Henri Lecloux MAP & FUGEA, Belgium)
- The rise and fall of a regulated European dairy market: a meso-sociological perspective (Sebastian Billows INRAE, IRISSO, France)
- Unremunerative prices and dumping effects on the markets of the Global South: how to establish fairer market conditions in Europe and West Africa in the milk sector? (Benoît de Waegeneer, Fairouz Gazdallah, Laurent Levard Humundi, Oxfam, Gret, Belgium)
• 1.8 - Market stabilization, crises' prevention and management. Limitations of the CAP safety nets; Public stockholding
- Reimagining and re-managing markets, Re-evaluating the role of marketing boards and public stockholding programmes in response to the global food security and farming crises (Olivier De Schutter IPES FOOD, International)
- Public stock programmes in South-East Asia: what lessons for the EU common market? (Jonas Jaccard, Humundi, Belgique)
- Towards a Post-neoliberal Stabilization Paradigm for an Age of Overlapping Emergencies: Revisiting International Buffer Stocks Based on the Case of Food (Merle Schulken, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
• 1.9 - Ensuring food supply, relocalising food production, exploring national food sovereignty
- Food sovereignty and the benefits of agroecology in Georgia (Inga Tkemaladze, Elkana, Georgia)
- Struggles in Transition of Agri-food Policies in Japan: Neoliberalism, Green or Wartime? (Kae Sekine, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)
- Prospective des gains environnementaux et gains en surfaces agricoles consécutifs à une politique de souveraineté alimentaire en France (Carine Barbier, CIRED, France)
- From Varied Fields to One Focus: The Struggles of a Catalan Family Farm’s Journey (Eduard Nualart Toekomstboeren, Netherlands)
• 1.10 - Development of environment-friendly agricultural practices: Various economic logics and conditionalities; Organic farming
- French organic farming in crisis: an example of a blind spot between agro-ecological transition policies and food market regulation? (Loïc Madeline, Fédération Nationale d'Agriculture Biologique (FNAB), France)
- Establishing a fair market regulation to properly remunerate farmers engaged in the agroecological transition (Laura Sauques & Eric Gall, IFOAM Organics Europe)
- Issues of CAP environmental measures (Stéphanie Barral INRAE, France)
- The significance of cap subsidies in sustainable farm in Spain (Maria Almuneda Gómez Ramos, IEGD-CSIC, Spain)
2. Ensuring the affordability of quality food in the EU
• 2.1 - Distribution of added-value in commodity chains, abuses of market power, contracts; Adaptation of EU competition law; Local short supply chains
- Practical analysis of the Food Chain Law in Spain. Reflections and proposals for public regulation of the food supply chain in the European Union (Andrés Góngora Belmonte COAG, Spain)
- The potential of the unfair trading practices policies directive to address abuses of power (Jonathan Matthysen Oxfam Belgium)
- Three-party contract with a fair milk price, Entering into longer-term, more transparent business relationships and cover the costs of dairy farms (Andrea Münnekehoff AbL, Germany & Die Faire Milch, Germany)
- The Egalim laws: strengths, weaknesses and alternative models for better remuneration for producers and a successful agro-ecological transition (Hakim Hadj-Aïssa Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, France)
• 2.2 - Quality labels and protected designation of origin, organic agriculture, certification, labelling, local markets: beyond niche markets, what lessons for larger markets?
- The Participatory Guarantee System: potential and challenges for supporting and accelerating the agro-ecological transition (Timothée Collin GASAP, Belgium)
- The thwarted evolution of organic farming: from deregulation to crisis (Magali Catteau Chambres d'agriculture, France)
- Practical tools for reclaiming our agriculture and our food! (Serge Peereboom MAP, Belgium)
- Study on the creation of value and the societal costs of the French food system: what lessons can be drawn for access to healthy, sustainable food for all? (Christophe Alliot LE BASIC, France)
• 2.3 - Solidarity, justice and alternatives to food systems; Social security for food
- A Local Food Policy Framework, Ireland (Fergal Anderson Talamh Beo, Ireland)
- For a common agricultural and food policy, developing the political perspective of social security for food (SSA) (Adeline Régis La Confédération Paysanne, France)
- Contradictions on the path towards just and sustainable food worlds Alternative food initiatives and food (in)justice in the Netherlands (Joelle Vetter, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- What if democracy regulated the markets? The principle of social security extended to food (Birgit Muller, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
3. Reviving rural areas and enabling generational renewal among farmers in the EU
• 3.1 - Need more farmers? Farmer anger; Public policies and labour/life conditions of farmers and workers in agri-food chains
- Dairy farming families in Wallonia - 3 development strategies but no secure future (Vincent Delobel FUGEA, Belgium)
- Reflections and challenges of starting a small-scale farm in Denmark (Andres Behrend, Frie Bønder, Levende Land Youth & Forum for Madsuverænitet, Denmark)
- Seeds of Discord: Central and Eastern European farmers’ protests against the influx of Ukrainian grain (Natalia Mamonova, Institute for Rural and Regional Research,Trondheim, Norway)
- The effects of market regulation policies on the working conditions of dairy farmers in the Walloon Region, Belgium (Carolina Carpio Villarroel Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• 3.2 - Youth and renewal of farmer generation, digital agriculture, farm advisory system
- Production models in agriculture and livestock farming in a new social, environmental and economic context. A proposal for a debate to limit the size of farms and define a socially necessary agriculture and livestock farming. (Iria Costela Peña COAG, Spain)
- ECVC recommendations for generation renewal (Paola Laini ECVC, Europe & ARI, Italy)
- Finnish Farm Advisory System: To Innovate or Not to Innovate? (Aira Sevon ESVY / FOPA, Finland)
- Agrarian politics in the era of digital agriculture: Contestation, refusal or alter-digitalisation? (Oane Visser & Louis Thiemann, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands/ University Kassel, Germany)
• 3.3 - Gender issues within the CAP
- How can we make gender part of the CAP? (Georgia Diamanti, Jessica Duncan & Louise Legein, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands/Oxfam België/Belgique)
- Valuing women's work in rural areas (Miguel Viegas & Joana Lima, Universidade de Aveiro, Associação das Mulheres Agricultoras e Rurais Portuguesas, Portugal)
- Empowerment of Polish women farmers. Everyday life on the farm as a road toward’s agency (Klaudia Kryńska & Ruta Spiewak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
• 3.4 - Rights-based approach and Peasant rights
- Garum, a surprising sauce: An open, cooperative production process with a shared aim: to make the most of all the fish extracted from the river. (Thierry Bouvet La Confédération Paysanne, France)
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants: Revival of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Transcended by Nature and Groundbreaking Development in the Law of Conviviality (Davit Hakobyan Member of the UN Working Group on UNDROP)
- In search of new approaches to the law: a case study from Andalusia (Lise Etienne, UPPA, France & Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
• 3.5 - Land market regulations, alternative institutions for land access, relationship with land
- Collective land arrangements that decommodify land for agroecological transformations (Eliane Bakker & Margriet Goris, Toekomstboeren, Netherlands)
- Agricultural land policies in Wallonia: which levers for action to support generational renewal and the agro-ecological transition? (Lou Plateau & Laurence Roudart, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Regulating land markets to achieve the broader EU sustainability agenda (Adam Calo, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, Netherlands)
- Farms Concentration in the European Union from 2010 to 2020 (Miguel Viegas & Simone Boccaletti, University of Aveiro, Portugal, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy)
• 3.6 - Extractive/destructive agriculture versus an agriculture that nurtures land
- The quickening (VIDEO) (Deirdre O'Mahony Talamh Beo, Ireland)
- The land we inherit (VIDEO) (Maximilian Isendahl NOrdBruk, Sweden)
- Herding Futures: A Revolutionary Utopia, Exploring Threatened Entanglements of Pastoralists and Herds (Cecilia Begal, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- Agricultural policies and the agro-ecological transition in Quebec: the case of alternative livestock farming (Pascal Genest-Richard Université Laval, Canada)
4. From local to global: food system governance across different scales
• 4.1 - Local initiatives for agroecology or food sovereignty. How to scale out? (1)
- From tradition to transformation: the role of Slow Food Farms in sustainable agricultur (Jacopo Goracci Slow Food, Italy)
- Pastoralists in resistance (VIDEO) (Agata Hummel & Paula Escribano, University of Warsaw, Poland/University of Barcelona, Spain)
- The (land) politics of relocalizing agroecological food systems. Lessons and Challenges from the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Area (Facundo Martín CONICET, Argentina)
- A food sovereignty approach to localize justice and politicize food: peasant-based agrarian transitions (Kaya Schwemmlein ICS-Ulisboa, Portugal)
• 4.2 - Local initiatives for agroecology or food sovereignty. How to scale out? (2)
- Small country in jaws of open market and market regulation policies in Europe - case study Croatia and Slovenia (Robert Hadžić, Association of Croatian Family Farms, Croatia)
- Why do we farm? An overview of farming and agricultural policies in Norway (Bjorn Tore Birkeland, Rogaland branch of the Norwegian Farmers and Smallholders Union, Norway)
- Visions, status, potentials, and pitfalls of sustainable polycentric agricultural and food system governance in Europe (Andreas Thiel, Nora Schütze, Teresa Meyer & Ariane Götz University of Kassel, Germany)
- Libera Terra’s Market Instrumentalisation: Re-centring Cooperativist Approaches for Societal and Food System Transformations (Adriana Scribani University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• 4.3 - Multi-perspective case studies of countries or EU: what lessons for agroecological transition and food sovereignty?
- Alternative pathway to achieve sustainable agriculture with a global impact by 2050 from CAP to CSAP (Stephan Bult Independent researcher, Italy)
- The agri-food crisis in Turkey and two-legged politics for agroecological transition (İlkay Öz & Özge Güneş Gürsel, Çiftçi-Sen, Turkey)
- Eco-Keynesianism as a way to an eco-socialism (Helena Blankenstein Universitat Politécnica de València, Spain)
• 4.4 - International agri-food trade, global value chains: how to regulate in view of food sovereignty?
- Solidarity and tomatoes, from the Sahara to the Basque Country (Jean-Mathieu Thévenot La Confédération Paysanne, France)
- A just and green CAP and trade policy within and beyond the EU (Guus Geurts, Coalition for Just Trade, Platform Aarde Boer Consument, Netherlands)
- Regulation of supply chains: instrument of agricultural policy or obstacle? (Bernd H. Uhlenhut & Viktoria Balk, International School of Management, BSU International, Germany)
• 4.5 - Agroecology: international negotiations and declarations, advocacy, evaluation methods
- Obstacles and levers to the agro-ecological transition of the CAP (Laurence Modrego, Gemblon Agro-bio Tech, Arlon Campus Environment, ULB, Belgium)
- Agricultural market regulation and the agro-ecological transition: where to start lobbying? Feedback, challenges and questions from French international solidarity organisations (Victoria Caïla & Lorine Azoulai, CCFD - Terre Solidaire, France)
- As clear as mud: global policy recommendations and European agroecological transitions (Indra Noyes, University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Evaluating a framework for measuring agroecology: case study of public financing for agroecological transition in the Walloon Region (Caroline Amrom Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)