Food is a Human Right for All! Guaranteeing healthy, just and sustainable food systems
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In Europe, millions of people struggle with food insecurity. Many more cannot afford a healthy and adequate diet. Moreover, farmers and food workers cannot make a living, and sustainability is often compromised because of lack of political will and resources.
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At the same time, few actors along the chain and few investors accumulate huge profits out of small-scale producers, unhealthy diets and speculation.
The Right to Food initiative seeks to address these urgent issues by demanding that the EU finally adopts policies that ensure the transition to agroecological food systems where everyone has access to sufficient, safe, sustainable, fair and nutritious food.
At least one fifth of the European population has no access to adequate food. Industrial food systems aggravate food insecurity, climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, labour exploitation and animal suffering. The EU must guarantee the right to food systemically and promote healthy, just, humane and sustainable food systems for present and future generations.
Achieving these goals requires proposing or amending EU legal acts in these areas:
- Fair food systems and democratic governance
- Support to national social protection initiatives
- Recognizing that agricultural products and foodstuff are not ordinary commodities
- Support to peasant agroecology and territorial food systems
- Combating agricultural land’s concentration
- Support to peasant seed systems
- Strict regulation of GMOs, including those obtained with new genomic techniques
- Sustainable water management
- Strengthening of animal welfare
- Support to fruit and vegetable consumption and regulation of ultra-processed foodstuff
- Sustainable food procurement
- Meaningful food labelling
- Stopping food waste
- Strengthening of the right to food in third countries
Help push European leaders to act: sign this petition for a fair, healthy and sustainable food system.