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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 23h

Today in the EP, Michael Fakhri, Geneviève Savigny (UN Working Group on UNDROP) and Vincent Delobel (member of FUGEA and ECVC) presented the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. UNDROP is key to achieving the right to food in Europe! 👉 https://ow.ly/7Rfn50XaC0l

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 4d

ECVC denounces the EU–Morocco deal! This agreement undermines the CJEU ruling & serves transnational corporations over the Saharawi people & local peasants. ECVC stands with European & Moroccan peasants. We urge the European Parliament to reject this deal!

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 11d

¡La PAC debe estar al servicio de los ciudadanos, no de la agroindustria! 👩‍🌾🧑‍🌾 Exigimos una Política Agrícola Común que apoye a lxs campesinxs y a la agroecología. Los alimentos son un derecho, no una mercancía. ¡Prioridad a lxs campesinxs y lxs ciudadanxs! #Agroecología

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 11d

Farmers are disappearing at an alarming rate. Every day, small farms close, replaced by industrial models. The next CAP must stop this trend & build food sovereignty.

👉 https://www.eurovia.org/publications/ecvc-position-paper-post-2027-cap-building-food-sovereignty/

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 12d

La PAC doit servir les personnes, pas l’agro-industrie ! 🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾

L’ECVC appelle à soutenir les petites fermes, les nouveaux·elles paysan·nes et l’agroécologie. L’alimentation est un droit : la PAC doit mettre les paysan·nes et citoyen·nes en premier ✊

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 13d

Farmers must be able to exchange & use their seeds 🌱
The potential suppression of Article 30 of the proposed European legislation on plant reproductive material threatens biodiversity and farmers' rights & contradicts international law ✊
👉 https://ow.ly/AKyu50X2OjW

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 27d

This proposal is incompatible with farmers' rights on seeds, and would simply legalize biopiracy by allowing the extension of the scope of patents to native seeds. This will only benefit to patent-holding multinationals, at the expense of European farmers, small seed breeders and agrobiodiversity

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 27d

Indeed, farmers reject the EU-Mercosur agreement and the unfair competition it will bring to farmers in the EU and in Mercosur countries! But farmers also oppose the proposal to deregulate new genomic techniques, which want to impose patented GMOs without any traceability and labeling

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 27d

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

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Beyond GM @beyond-gm.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 27

📢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...

www.eurovia.org

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 14

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 14

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

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

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

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

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

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

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

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

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

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

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

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

However, there was a clear consensus in yesterday’s Youth Policy Dialogue - young farmers across the board need fair prices! @christophehansen.bsky.social seems to be forgetting the central point for young farmers. No fair prices = not earning a living = no farmers!

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

“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

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 8

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

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gfgf-europe.bsky.social @gfgf-europe.bsky.social · May 6

🚨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

#FundOurFuture: Common Agricultural Policy

YouTube video by Good Food Good Farming

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · May 6

📢 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...

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · Apr 28

📢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...

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