IPES-Food🌍Industrial food production is fuelling climate chaos & ecological collapse – undermining the future of #food.
Climate shocks are already pushing food prices up.
🌱It doesn’t have to be this way. #agroecology
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)LEAK on 9th #Omnibus: Commission is about to publish a massive betrayal to human health and the environment:
☠️ Giving unlimited approval for #pesticides!
😵💫 Who will pay that bill, Ursula? #EUAgriFoodDays
💀 Who will profit: Big Polluters like #Bayer & #BASF: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...
Market concentration in #foodsystems is deepening, with serious risks for farmers, consumers & food access.
#BigAg monopolies drive up costs, limit choice, weaken farmer autonomy, & leave food systems exposed to shocks. Time to act.
By 2050, climate change could push food prices up 20%].
Agriculture makes up 12% of EU emissions, yet agribusiness lobbyists block real climate action, like controlling harmful and dangerous levels of industrial animal production.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
There’s a better way. 🌱
By avoiding synthetic inputs, organic & agroecological farms protect soil, water, and wildlife. They build resilience, producing food long-term without destroying the planet.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
See: www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in...
Agriculture and food system
Agriculture and food system
Agriculture and food system
The main function of the food system and its primary sector, agriculture, is to satisfy the basic human need for food, but sustainable food systems also maintain ecosystem health and contribute to social well-being. At the same time, the food system is one of Europe’s major systems of production and consumption, causing over one-fifth of all environmental and climate impacts.
Industrial agriculture is destroying meadows, killing pollinators, and turning rivers grey (and green!), wrecking nature and undermining the very resources future food production depends on.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/v...
Vision for Agriculture backtra...
Vision for Agriculture backtra...
Vision for Agriculture backtracks on green commitments, serves corporate interests | Corporate Europe Observatory
The ‘Vision for Agriculture & Food – Shaping together an attractive farming & agri-food sector for future generations’, presented today by commissioner Hansen is a clear backtracking of the common sense that was reflected in many proposals resulting from the Strategic Dialogue published in September 2024 and which according to EC-president Ursula Von der Leyen would serve as the basis for this Vision.
A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it.
Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies.
Food Security, anyone?
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
We can build better.
Break monopolies and support farms practicing agroecology (e.g. organic), fair supply chains, and rules that serve people - not corporations.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/u...
UN report slams global corporate capture of food systems | Corporate Europe Observatory
An important new UN report shows how a handful of mega-corporations control the global food system, with devastating consequences for food security and inflation; climate change and biodiversity; and human rights and health. Corporate Europe Observatory submitted relevant evidence from the EU to this study, which highlights the major pitfalls of corporate capture.
Unhealthy market concentration:
56% of seeds
61% of pesticides
43% of machinery
25% of phosphate fertilisers
68% of animal medicines…
… in the hands of just 26 players.
The system locks in unfair, unhealthy, fragile patterns.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See: shorturl.at/zLPEJ
Young people want to farm. But they can't afford to access land. If we don’t support a new generation of small- and medium-scale farmers, we risk food grown by fewer and bigger operators, and countryside hollowed out by #BigAg.