1. Fachtag Solidarische Landwirtschaft:
An international perspective of CSA:
Urgenci, the international CSA network
Berlin, 24th January 2018

2. Some key dates in CSA
Originated in Japan with Teikei in the mid-1960s, formally in 1971
Spread to Europe and the USA in the 1980s and 1990s
Urgenci launched in Aubagne, France in 2004

3. Who do we represent?
A network of national and regional CSA and Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology networks
Approximately 2 million member shares
According to the 2016 overview, approximately 1 million in Europe

4. What is our role?
Work on policy at EU and UN level: advocacy and alliances on food sovereignty and solidarity economy
Represent consumers constituency in the food sovereignty movement
Develop and support transnational projects and research

5. How to achieve this? The need for systemic change
Territorial food systems
Food sovereignty and civil society empowerment
Solidarity economy: collective solutions

6. What are the commonalities we are talking about?
Community-centred and controlled
Grass-roots empowerment
The Commons
Re-localisation
Break with the neo-liberal economic and financial system of globalisation

7. Agroecology is based on traditional approaches Food Sovereignty Solidarity Economy

9. Signing the Memorandum of Understanding with FAO Oct 2017

10. Why is the MoU so important?
Difficulty to raise funding for work outside Europe
Will enable us to meet strategic workplan for all continents developed at Urgenci International conference in Beijing (mapping, experience sharing ad capacity building…)

11. What have we done so far? The Mediterranean network v
First meeting in Marseille in 2016: 10 countries, shared concerns of climate change, building local food systems, issue of right to food for migrants
2017: Cross over ‘Learning journeys’ in Turkey and Lebanon. Immediate outcome: Turkish state prepared to implement training on agroecology

12. What have we done so far? The West African Network
Supported by Brot für die Welt and IPES-Food
2017: Initial meeting March 2017 Togo
Mapping Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology (LSPAs): In-depth audit in 7 W African countries and interviews in Focus groups. Report published soon!

13. What have we done so far? Other achievements…
4 new European projects
Input into CAP
Participation in Peasants’ Rights process
Work on many different UN processes (UNTFSSE, New Urban Agenda, FAO regional process (Facilitation Committee and Consultations…

14. What have we done so far? Other achievements…
4 new European projects
Input into CAP
Participation in Peasants’ Rights process
Work on many different UN processes (UNTFSSE, New Urban Agenda, FAO regional process (Facilitation Committee and Consultations…

15. What have we done so far? Other achievements…
CFS-CSM:
- Connecting Smallholders to Markets
- Urban-Rural policy
- SDGs
- Nutrition

16. SDG 12: Responsible production and consumption
SDG 12.3:  “By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses”
One of the SDGs put forward by civil society in both FAO consultation in Europe and Central Asia and Hlll

17. Table: 10 Complete Food Chain (CFC) comparison of FLW

18. Territorial food systems and relocalisation
Benefits
Challenges
Comments
Potential indicators
Prices farmer led and agreed
Consumers commit for a season
Producer can plan and finance production
Decent income for producer; affordable for consumer
Direct sales from producer to consumer
No choice: you take what you get
Higher price for producer, affordable for consumer
Numbers of CSA members
Shared risk and benefits
Need to (re)learn how to cook
(Re)builds social connections
Resilience

19. What have we done so far? Other achievements…
Research:
Mapping of European CSA movement
Access to Land book
Study of West African partnerships

21. Urban-rural regeneration and cooperation through solidarity partnerships

22. Importance of framework legislation to link food sovereignty, solidarity economy and Agroecology

23. Challenges that impact out ability to strategize
Repression: legislation, violence, non-respect of human rights…betrayal by elected duty-bearers: TTIP,TPP, TISA, ISDS…
Corporate capture (of legislation, agroecology, short distribution chains, our successful initiatives…)
Green-washing
Compartmentalisation of institutions & inability to work with complex adaptive situations
Social movement’s consensual approach takes time
Sustainable Development Goals, Hlll and post 2015 Finance for Development: how to get grassroots control of funding?

24. The issue of Trade and the dangers of capture!
TTIP, CETA, TPP and ISDS:
(and why we need to fight them!)
Fair Trade versus “commercio justo”
Local food systems and systemic solidarity economy

25. Emerging trends * Agroecology * Local Food Councils * Local Food Hubs
* Local solidarity procurement (school canteens, hospitals, public services…)
* Community Land Trusts
* Integrated solidarity systems (Vancouver)

26. Our economy or theirs?
Neoliberalism versus grass-roots solutions: solidarity economy and food sovereignty as illustrations of change and part of Agroecology…
Food sovereignty and Agroecology must include an economic paradigm change!

27. Extract from the Nyéléni Forum on Agroecology (March 2015)
« IV. Build local economies
Promote local markets for local products.
Support the development of alternative financial infrastructure, institutions and mechanisms to support both producers and consumers.
Reshape food markets through new relationships of solidarity between producers and consumers.
Develop links with the experience of solidarity economy and participatory guarantee systems, when appropriate. »

28. Thank you!