With the European Commission’s ‘Vision for Agriculture and Food’ conference taking place in Brussels on Thursday 8 May 2025, European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) published its position on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on Tuesday 6 May.
The organisation argues that CAP reform must guarantee fair prices, enable more farmers to set up and promote a transition towards social, sustainable and agro-ecological agri-food systems.
The ECVC is calling for an ambitious budget after 2027 to finance this transition to agro-ecology. It is also calling for stronger market regulation tools and a fairer distribution of CAP payments.
Finally, the organisation is calling for a break with the logic of payments based solely on the surface area of farms, which it believes encourages monopolisation and concentration of land ownership.
The ECVC argues that the next common market organisation (CMO) should ensure remunerative and stable prices that cover production costs, regulate the volumes produced and placed on the market, and “manage strategic stocks publicly”.
Link to the ECVC’s position: https://aeur.eu/f/goj (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)