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Roots of Resilience: Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe

A collective of organisations, coming together under the banner of the Nyéléni Europe Food Sovereignty Movement have just released a new report : “Roots of Resilience : Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe”. The report argues for an approach to land policy in Europe based on a model of land stewardship and agroecology as key components of a sustainable agriculture model and resilient food system in Europe. Various pathways are laid out for securing this at local, national and European levels, including through opportunities provided by the new CAP, the European Green Deal, and the Farm to Fork Strategy. Land politics – who controls what land, how is it used, for how long, for what purposes and to whose benefit – is a central pillar of this debate.

This Policy Report argues that, to meet this moment, it is time to rediscover the roots of our resilience by grounding land policy in collective action and democratic forms of land politics. This is based on an understanding of land not as a commodity but as a common resource, a living territory and a natu-ral landscape.

In practice, this implies a different set of land property relationships and more diverse models of food production than those of industrial agriculture, which homogenises landscapes and cultures. This opens up the possibility for other land access regimes to emerge beyond simply that of the land market, including forms of common and collective land use and ownership. Patterns of land ownership and distribution track closely with patterns of land use. Thus this approach to land politics also helps to sustain more ecologically regenerative models of food production such as organic agriculture and peasant agroecology as practised by many of Europe’s small farmers, fishers, pastoralists, and indigenous peoples.

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المنظمة: Nyeleni Europe and Central Asia
منظمات أخرى: Eco Ruralis, the European Coordination of Via Campesina (ECVC), the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM-EU), the Real Farming Trust (RFT), Terre de Liens (TDL), the Transnational Institute (TNI) and URGENCI.
السنة: 2021
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التغطية الجغرافية: أوروبا وآسيا الوسطى, الاتحاد الأوروبى
النوع: موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
لغة المحتوى: English, French, Romanian, Spanish
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