Alisha Sesum

Communications and Press Officer

+32 465 03 33 85

alisha@eurovia.org/

Rooted in the right to food sovereignty, our main objective is the defense of farmers’ and field workers’ rights, promoting diverse and sustainable family and peasant farming. These principles in turn, demand food and agricultural policies based on legitimacy, fairness, solidarity and sustainability. These are necessary to ensure food security, food safety, public health, employment in rural areas and to tackle the issues of the global food crisis and climate change. We are fighting for a new and improved EU agricultural and food policy to be developed based on the above principles.

We believe that public policies should promote and foster agroecology and fair incomes for food producers, in order to facilitate sustainable management of production-based resources, particularly in the context of climate change, and improve awareness among different actors in the food system, including farmers, policy makers, researchers, and civil society actors.

ECVC’s work is structured around eight working groups (European policies, global governance, production, peasant agroecology, rural workers and migration, trade, right to land, seeds and GMOs, peasants’ rights)  and three articulations (youth, women, and gender and sexual diversities), focusing on the key political and practical topics that are impacting farmers at any given moment.

Each member organisation works in diverse contexts and realities, but we are all united in fighting for better food systems by the principles of our found Common Base.