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[December 2021]
Seminar "Berries del cuarto mundo: abordar la “esencialidad” de los trabajadores alimentarios de Europa", with Soledad Castillero Quesada (Universidad de Granada).
[November 2021]
Vítor Rodrigues, from the CNA Board, in his speech at the symposium "Just Food Transitions: Addressing the Peasant Question in Europe", which took place on November 4th, considers it "essential that governments and institutions adopt corresponding policies and budgets , not only to the current economic, social and environmental importance of peasant and family agriculture, but also to the urgency of halting and reversing the trajectory of depopulation in rural territories, loss of environmental, economic and cultural values, dependence on external food products; (...) of the increase of vast areas of highly intensive agricultural and forestry monocultures."
Full intervention (in Portuguese): CNA - A agricultura camponesa e familiar e a implementação de sistemas alimentares saudáveis em Portugal
[July 2021]
2nd Participatory Workshop in Portugal "What Policies for Food Justice in Portugal?". The challenge of building socially fairer, healthier and more sustainable food systems is at the heart of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the European Commission's European Green Deal. In Portugal, this challenge is urgent, given the paradox of the high prevalence of food insecurity and obesity in the population, and the fact that eating habits are the second main risk factor for premature death and disability. The food system is still both a cause and a solution to environmental problems and socio-territorial imbalances, particularly in rural areas affected by forest fires and depopulation. This workshop was intended, through a participatory and co-creation methodology, to promote debate and collect contributions for the elaboration of public policy recommendations for food justice in Portugal, in its social, environmental and participatory dimensions.
2nd Participatory Workshop in Romania, co-organized with EcoRuralis "The right to seeds"
[June 2021]
What do we have in common? Disputes over justice, rights and other goods - Conversation of the Principal Investigator, Irina Velicu, Phd, with the Contrasens Podcast (in Romanian)
"Building on trust: contesting the exclusionary effects of organic certification through community-supported agriculture" - presentation of the researcher Hestia Delibas within the Panel Breaking norms and traditions in the pursuit of sustainable foodways, at the SIEF conference in Helsinki, Finland
Contribution short abstract:
Using as a case study one Community Supported Agriculture from Romania I am looking at how small producers, who are otherwise excluded from obtaining the premium prices of organic food markets, can still seize community economic rent through the close relationship created with their consumers.
[October 2020]
1st participatory workshop in Portugal, "Strategies for food justice in Portugal: debate ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit" was a workshops that took place on the 14th of October and joined together peasant, rural women and immigrant farmworker organizations in order to assess the structural obstacles to food justice in the Portuguese food system; and to spark a conversation about the local and international strategies needed to address them.
Watch video HERE
1st participatory workshop in Romania, co-organized with EcoRuralis, "Raportarea României la strategiile UE în agricultură" was a workshop that took place on the 13th of October to identify solutions for a future agriculture that supports peasants, small producers and rural workers (representing the majority of people involved in agriculture in Romania) through public policies at national and EU level, in the context of the current CAP reform. The discussion focused on the most important public policy processes in the EU, namely: 1) From Farm to Fork; 2) European Green Pact (Green Deal); 3) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - National Strategic Plan.
Video: Ecoruralis facebook
[April 2020]
"Pandemic Ontologies of Isolation" is the most recent contribution by Irina Velicu in collaboration with researcher António Carvalho, coordinator of the TROPO project.
"Whoever does not have Peasants, Should find Them: The Food Injustice of Pandemics", is one of the contributions of JustFood team to understanding the role, and potential, of alternative food networks in the face of pandemic situations whose origins are associated with forms of food production.
"Within and beyond the pandemic. Demanding a Care Income and a feminist Green New Deal for Europe." is the most recent contribution by researcher Stefania Barca to the understanding of the COVID-19 crisis from a feminist perspective and the urgency of a European "Green New Deal."
Contributions can be read on the 'Undisciplined Environments' blog made up of a group of academics and activists committed to an emancipatory social and ecological transformation.