ECVC presents its latest publication : “Putting market regulation at the heart of the debate about the CAP - Equipping ourselves for food sovereignty”
In this document, we explain why regulation of agricultural markets is the missing piece that will make it possible to achieve the European green deal and European open strategic autonomy. This regulation is essential for achieving food sovereignty in Europe. This correlates with a transition to more sustainable and agroecological models that allow the re-territorialisation of food, observance of the right to healthy and appropriate food for the entire population, sufficient incomes for land workers, and a countryside that is full of life.
We believe it is impossible to achieve the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy, the CAP, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, if the work of farmers and rural workers is not decently remunerated, in accordance with article 16 of UNDROP. This is an essential condition to enable enough young people to enter the adventure of peasant agriculture, as is essential for the agricultural transition. We advocate leaving the current paradigm of agriculture based on public subsidies, so that European prices for agricultural produce can be maintained at a stable level that appropriately compensates land workers, whose income is largely based on them. To provide a clear perspective, this publication offers analysis of the negative effects of market deregulation since 1992, and it also proposes a tool kit for regulation of agricultural markets as a contribution to strategic debates on the implementation of market regulation in the current context.