---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jose Luis Vivero <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:03 PM Subject: Food Commons in Europe: new Video + Text + Supplementary Links To: Jose Luis Vivero <[email protected]>
Dear friends and colleagues, It is my pleasure to share with you a media package (video + short narrative + supplementary academic and non-academic links) that was prepared for the recent European Commons Assembly ( http://europeancommonsassembly.eu/ ) that took place in Brussels. Please, find the link below: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/food-commons-europe/2017/02/01 Food is treated as a mere commodity in European policies, legal frameworks and normative views. Actually, food is not even considered as a human right in EU charters, constitutions and legal frameworks <http://gh.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000040>, nor a public good subject to public policies and universal access (such as health, education or water) and, least to say, a commons, although many commons and community-owned resources are producing food for Europeans <https://www.cbd.int/protected/ts64-country-case-studies/>. In this short video, I explore the potential of treating food as a commons to build a more sustainable and fairer food system for the humans and the environment. The accompanying text includes *15 measures to support the food commons in Europe*, measures that could be considered for the next reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. As a suggestion, this policy could be re-named as the Commons Food Policy to be more coherent with the new valuation of food. The complete Policy Proposal "The Food Commons in Europe" can be accessed here: http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/ECA:_The_food_commons _in_Europe:_Relevance,_challenges_and_proposals_to_support_them I would appreciate if you could distribute these text and video to those contacts of yours that may consider it relevant. Needless to say, any comment or suggestion will be more than welcomed. Best regards to all Un abrazo -- JOSE LUIS VIVERO POL Agricultural Engineer - Anti-hunger Activist PhD candidate in Food Governance (Université Catholique de Louvain) http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/vivero/jose-luis.html College Thomas More, Place Montesquieu 2, office 154 *Tel:* +32 (0) 496 375 208 - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve BELGIUM Email: [email protected] Skype: Jose Luis Vivero ACH Centroamerica Blog ESP: http://hambreyderechoshumanos.blogspot.com <http://www.facebook.com/joseluisviveropol>Blog ENG: http://hungerpolitics. wordpress.com http://twitter.com/joselviveropol NEW PUBLICATION!!! *No right to food and nutrition in the SDGs: mistake or success?* <http://gh.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000040> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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