A land directive also has to protect coastal areas and communities’ traditional fishing and shellfish farming activities, as recommended by the VGGTs. Public ownership and stakeholder consultation should be used to facilitate small-scale farming and new entrants.

Read more in the directive proposal: https://www.eurovia.org/publications/proposal-for-an-eu-land-directive/

And a recent opinion article from one of our members: https://euobserver.com/opinion/156919

#8ConfLVC #PeasantResistance #StopTheRepression

A peasant directive must protect forest lands, which are currently left out of the CAP. Some Member States like Sweden have strong laws to protect forest and agricultural land from being owned by companies, and a land directive must enable MS to take similar action.

Creating a European Land Observatory would increase transparency, and allow us to measure and monitor land grabbing and concentration and the impact of markets on land prices, and help local and national authorities to act.

A directive must protect soil health and thus promote, enable and prioritise peasant agroecology for soil fertility and restoration. Through a European Soil Obervatory and giving longer-term leases to farmers we can better use and preserve soils.

A peasant land directive must redistribute land use rights through public land banks, supporting access to land for new farmers and sustainable, agroecological models, particularly for land that's abandoned, neglected or used to the detriment of people and the environment.

A land directive has to protect different types of land ownership, such as public, communal and community ownership. These lands and forms of ownership have been used for years to manage resources across Europe and should be protected from transfer to private ownership. ✊🏼

Capping the amount of land that one entity can control to 500 hectares will increase the number of farmers and limit land concentration. Agricultural land is a finite resource, needed to feed populations. Essential resources to feed the many can't be controlled by just a few. 🥕

Europe needs a framework to regulate land if it wants to reach climate goals and protect farmers. But what should that framework do and what examples can we already learn from? This #17April, explore the key elements of ECVC's land directive proposal. 👇🏼🧵 #PeasantResistance

"In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the @EU_Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens."
👀👉🏼https://euobserver.com/opinion/156919

European banks finance the industrialisation of agriculture, check @foeeurope publication here: https://friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/briefing-human-environmental-costs-europe-financing-industrial-animal-farming/

✊But an alternative way exists, it's called 20 million small/medium farms in 2040 and agroecology!

¡Guarda la fecha!
Lunes, 17 de Abril, 12 pm UTC
@DefendingUNDROP celebrará un seminario web con motivo del Día Internacional de las Luchas Campesinas.

Regístrate para asistir aquí: https://geneva-academy-ch.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lRJNtgQGSwiMD2TWKJ7wtQ

#LuchasCampesinas #ParenDeMatarnos #8ConfLVC

✊Solidaridad de los movimientos campesinos del Estado español con la movilización francesa contra el acaparamiento del agua.

Puedes leer el comunicado aquí:
https://soberaniaalimentaria.info/otros-documentos/luchas/1019-contra-el-acaparamiento-de-agua

@La_COAG @EHNEsindikatua @SLG_labregxs @SAT_nacional @ConfPaysanne @RevistaSABC

❗️ECVC member @abl_ev and FIAN Germany stand with @ConfPaysanne after recent events at the mega-basin demonstration.

✊They demand people's right to peacefully protest and participate in policy processes, outlined in UNDROP, must be respected!

No te pierdas el vídeo del XII congreso de @EHNEsindikatua

✊🧑‍🌾🌾
¡Gaurko iluntasunean biharko argitasuna bilatzeko ibilbideak!
¡Caminos para encontrar la luz del mañana en la oscuridad del ahora!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoMadN2Cyvg

📍You still have time!
Today at 15:30 webinar "UNDROP and the EU seed marketing reform: perspectives from Belgium", by @Geneva_Academy

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f2YT1_ldSIOQWMx5BdvhNw

🧑‍🌾Vincent Delobel, @fugea will talk about the role of seeds in nurturing resourcefulness in action.

🔴Pedimos a la UE que intervenga para frenar la deriva autoritaria en FR

💧Consternación por la represión del movimiento social en defensa del agua

✊Solidaridad absoluta con la @ConfPaysanne
@lessoulevements
@BassinesNo

#NoBassaran

https://t.ly/Z9m7

🎥LIVE NOW!
Webinar on the working and learning conditions of young agricultural workers as seen in the new publication by ECVC Youth Articulation & researchers from @CoventryCAWR, with @IECarvalhais, & represenatives from @EU_Commissiona and @EFFAT_org.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etf7DJfNLmQ

🔴 Nous demandons à l'UE d’ intervenir pour stopper la dérive autoritaire en FR
💧Consternation face à la répression du mouvement social de défense de l’eau
✊Solidarité profonde avec la @ConfPaysanne @lessoulevements @BassinesNon
#NoBassaran
https://www.eurovia.org/fr/communique-de-presse/lunion-europeenne-doit-intervenir-pour-stopper-la-derive-autoritaire-en-france/

🔴We call on the the @EU_Commission to intervene to stop the authoritarian drift in FR
💧✊We express our dismay at the repression of social movements in defence of water
We stand in solidarity with @ConfPaysanne @lessoulevements @BassinesNon
#NoBassaran
https://www.eurovia.org/press-releases/the-european-union-must-intervene-to-stop-the-authoritarian-drift-in-france/