International conference of researchers and farmers

But the onus is on food sovereignty enthusiasts to grapple with the history of the command economies and come up with creative mechanisms that encourage diversity, that balance and meet the needs of producers and consumers, and that achieve the basic contours of a truly democratic « food sovereign » production and distribution system. [...] This is all the more necessary given that right-wing groups have been trying to capture the political momentum and farmers' movements, in particular in order to influence the elections in the European Parliament and to attack the environmental agenda linked to the Green deal. [...] What lessons can be drawn from the successes and failures of past policies to regulate agricultural markets, in Europe and elsewhere in the world, to rebuild the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the basis of food sovereignty1 and enable the agroecological transition2? Approach of the conference: co-constructing knowledge This conference will bring together academics and peasants and small and m. [...] International negotiations on this took place within the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and led to the signing of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995. [...] This is true in high income countries (Canada, South Korea, etc.) and in certain emerging countries (China, Indonesia, Turkey, etc.) The Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the increasingly obvious effects of climate change have reinforced the idea that food production cannot be taken for granted once and for all, and that leaving it in the hands of the 'free market' and multinational compan.