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The European Declaration on CSA: Guidelines for the Future
Bayer bought out Monsanto for 66 billion dollars. The game of Monopoly continues with a small number of agro-industrial giants sharing out their control of living organisms. The reaction of millions of people to this is one of urgency: they share the feeling of a need to act, to take back control of their food systems. Their slogans are the independence of peasants, consumers right to choose and the collective right to decide what model of food system we want. Their collective actions cover a broad scope. But one of the most highly developed and demanding approaches is that of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). By Jocelyn Parot, General Secretary of the international network Urgenci
Pan-European Forum in Romania wraps up: food sovereignty takes root in Eastern Europe!
Press release *** The fight back against industrial agriculture and for a just and sustainable future for farming and peasant farmers took a leap forward this week as the largest-ever European Forum on food sovereignty concluded. [1] After five days of discussions, the groundwork has been laid to take
Splitting the Banana: How Long and Short Value Chains should jointly Face Deregulation
A seminar on Deregulation in Value Chains held late August turned out to be the moment for a long-awaited exchange between local and global fair, sustainable food initiatives.
The European CSA Declaration adopted in Ostrava!
150 participants and volunteers from 25 countries gathered from Sept 16th -18th in Provoz Hlubina (Ostrava, CZ) for the 3rd European meeting on CSA. The gathering took place in a former coal mine and steel works that has been reconverted into a conference and cultural centre. It provides an interesting background
The Third European Meeting of CSA in Ostrava: From Farm to Fork or How to Shorten the Food Chain
Between September 16 and 18, 2016 the North Moravian City of Ostrava will play host to a meeting of the European organizations and communities involved in the project of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). The purpose of this gathering that will be attended by over a hundred people from all over
Who will feed the Nyeleni-Europe forum? Portrait of a producer
Enike and Istvan run a CSA farm that provides many of our Ecoruralis hosts with their weekly box on a year-round basis. The essential aspects of shared risk and benefits are in place, as is the year-long commitment to their farm, even if payment is made on a weekly basis.
Kick-off workshop in Bern on Solidarity Economy and Organic agriculture
Urgenci is involved in a new interdiscplinary and international project with University of Bern (Switzerland) on “the importance of social solidarity economy in the development of organic agriculture in Europe, in the past and the present”. by Gaëlle Bigler and Peter Volz On the 30th of June, 2016, Dr Stephan
Mediterranean Solidarity & Agroecology! at the MedCOP 22, Tangiers, July 2016.
History of the project Urgenci mobilised for the first MedCOP21 in Marseilles in June 2015 thanks to the strong commitment of three of our partners: the AMAP de Provence, which is a regional Miramap network in France, the Moroccan Swani Tiqa and the GAS from Italy. The mobilisation was around
Press Invitation: second Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty, 26-30 October 2016, Romania
We are happy to invite media representatives to come and cover the 2nd Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty – the biggest ever convergence of Pan-European food sovereignty movements. Up to 1,000 people from 42 countries – small-scale farmers, fishers, pastoralists, consumers, urban gardeners, indigenous peoples, researchers, agricultural workers, environmentalists,
FROM UNIFORMITY TO DIVERSITY
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) brings together expert voices representing different disciplines and different types of knowledge, to inform the policy debate on how to reform food systems across the world. They recently published a comprehensive study (June 2016) : From uniformity to diversity: A paradigm shift
CSA in Norway
By Elizabeth Henderson Marte Guttulsrod and Alexandra Devik introduce the new symbol for the Oikos CSA network. Oikos – Organic Norway paid me the great honor of inviting me to be the keynote speaker for their second annual CSA conference, June 23 in Oslo. The gathering took place in a
Final negotiations of the policy text on Connecting Smallholders to Markets
Last week, in Rome, on 8-9 June, Shi Yan and Judith Hitchman, URGENCI’s vice-president and president, participated in the final negotiations of the policy text on Connecting Smallholders to Markets, on behalf of Urgenci, as part of the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) delegation. Other Civil society organizations were present as
