A large coalition for Peasants’ Rights, with Eco Ruralis Association as a member, launches today, the 28th of March 2017, the Petition for Peasants’ Rights (peasantsrights.eu) and asks the EU and its Member States to actively participate in good faith in the elaboration of the "UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas".

Peasants, fishers, pastoralists and other people working in rural areas produce most of the healthy and diverse food that we eat every day. In Europe and all around the world, we play a leading role in ensuring the food sovereignty of our communities and the resilience of our food system in the face of climate change. However, small farms are rapidly disappearing and peasant agriculture is under threat due to the expansion of industrial agriculture, land grabbing, and the dismantling of public support.