Greenpeace launches the report: "Ecological Farming: The seven principles of a food system that has people at its heart ".
The future of Europe’s agriculture lies in the hands of ecological farmers and their families who are doing a crucial job for our society and need to get the urgently needed support to carry on. Politicians must act and shift subsidies towards ecological farming practices to meet people and farmers’ demand for healthy food and healthy farming.
The report demonstrates that ecological farming: 1. empowers people, not the corporations, to be in control of the food they grow and eat; 2. benefits farmers in allowing rural communities to thrive; 3. produces enough food for all, 4. encourages (bio)diversity from seed to plate; 5. increases soil fertility; 6. enables farmers to control pest and weeds without chemical products; and 7. creates a food system resilient to changing climate conditions and unstable economies.