[P2P-F] Fwd: Food Commons in Europe: new Video + Text + Supplementary Links

Tue Feb 7 17:09:22 CET 2017

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From: Jose Luis Vivero <joseluisvivero at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:03 PM
Subject: Food Commons in Europe: new Video + Text + Supplementary Links
To: Jose Luis Vivero <joseluisvivero at gmail.com>

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)
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NEW PUBLICATION!!! *No right to food and nutrition in the SDGs: mistake or
success?* <http://gh.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000040>

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