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Juliana Lutz, Austria
Austrian AgricultureSpeiseLokal!The Nyeleni Forum and the European Food Movement
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Farming in AustriaGenerally small family farms (average 18ha), half of them have an additional
income, number of small farms is decreasing
Small farms are more likely to survive• if growing organically • If they do on-farm processing of food (need of working power, comply with
European hygiene regulations - high investments!)• if trying new ways of collaboration with other producers or consumers
(need of external support!)• if getting higher prices• if national and European subsidies system (CAP) changes (becomes linked
to working hours)
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The dominance of big enterprises hampers food sovereignty.The Raiffeisen-groupowns most of Austria‘s agriculturalstorehouses and the shops related to them. Thus, they controlabout 2 thirds of the agricultural harvest as well as theavailability of seeds and fertilizers. It also owns the majority of
Austria‘s dairiesand much more ...
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Our aims: share our joy on local food, encourage people to eat more localgrown food, provide information on sustainability issues related to fooproduction and consumption.
We sell organic foodfrom the farmers around: People order weekly via ouweb shop, they pick up their food the following friday. Selling foodmeans that we get in touch with people (producers and consumers), thathere is space to talk about products, farmers or food sovereignty andthat people get connected …
We sharefood, recipes, seeds, growing methods … …
We build networksas we collaborate with other local and (inter)nationalinitiatives.
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The European Food Movement
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Food Sovereignty
… is the right of peoples to sufficient, healthy,affordable and culturally appropriate food, producedthrough ecologically sound and socially sustainable
methods, and their right to define their own food andagriculture systems. Food is no longer treated as acommodity, but as a right to people.
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Aim of the forum: make visible the big number of peopledevoted to the idea of food sovereignty, strengthen the
existing network and support the different groups andtheir demands.
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The Nyeleni-Forum (Krems, August 2011)
About 380 delegates from all over Europe joined the Forum, 180 people
have been organizing the Forum.Networks involved in the preparation: La Via Campesina, Friends of the
Earth Europe, the European Attac Network, the World March of
Women, national platforms for food sovereignty (Hungary, Belgium,Spain, UK-food group).
Besides the overall agreement on food sovereignty, the forum showed
the controversial positions of the people/groups/countries.
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Who is involved in the European Food Movemen
ProducersConsumers
Activists/NGOsTrade Unions
Researchers
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Consumers
• better access to local food• enjoy high-quality food
• closer relationship to producers (CSA)
• getting involved with food production (urban/communitygardening)
• solidarity based, participatory supply chains (Food Coop
• healthy landscapes
• social, political, economic change….
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Austria• Food Coops: 5 (Vienna, Graz)
• Veg Box Schemes (Bio Kistl): 5
• Growing and harvesting: many, especially in urban areas
• Community Supported Agriculture: 1• consumer-producer cooperatives
• Slow Food– Terra Madre
• Volxküche: many, in urban areas
• Dumpstern: eat what supermarkets throw in the pin
• Eating the commons:www.mundraub.org
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Producers
• new agricultural policies (national and CAP)
• hygene regulations as regards to selling and
processing food
• access to recources (land, water, seeds, working
power)• new forms of organisation (collaboration)
• working conditions…
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• land grabbing
• availability of seeds
• quality of food
• genetic engineering
• inequality, right to food
• alternative economic systems
• support small farmers ...
Activists/NGOs
www.laviacampesina.org
www.attac.org
Friends of the Earth
www.GRAIN.org
www.FIAN.at
www.reclaimthefields.org
www.foodfirst.org
www.storyofstuff.com/
www.foodwatch.de
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Trade Unions
focus onworking conditions, labour law of rural workers,farmers, factory workers, workers in supermarkets
…
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Researchers
• political, social, economic change
• land use change
• CAP
• climate change
• alternative food networks
• methods of farming …
Global Food Print NetworkUnion of Concerned ScientistsIPCC - IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change
World Agriculture ReportUniversities, Research Institutes
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