As a response to the massive farmers protests in the first half of 2024, the EU dismantled the Farm to Fork strategy and abandoned several environmental measures for farmers. These were the wrong answers to a legitimate demand of farmers for less red tape and, above all, a decent price for their products.

These answers will not solve the farmers problems, nor the climate or biodiversity crisis, to which agriculture is a major contributor. Agriculture is at the crossroads of several system crises, it should also be at the crossroads of the solutions to these multiple crises. We urgently need a radical transformation of our food systems, based on agroecology, local markets and respect for the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and small scale enterprises. That transformation is already happening, thanks to farmers and communities everywhere in the world, who are experimenting with other models based on the right to food.

What we need is a political framework to support the transformation.

When: 14h00
Where: Top zaal
Speaker(s): tba