European Days of Action 2025
October, time to make noise!
October is getting closer and so are the European Days of Action! We invite citizens, farmers, activists and civil society organisations from all over Europe to take action for food justice. Join thousands across Europe to tell decision makers that we want food justice, NOW!
Why join us?
1/3 of the whole EU budget goes to fund agriculture. That’s your taxpayer money. Citizens across the EU should have a say in how this money is spent. It’s time to move away from a system that serves corporate interests. Instead, we need to build one that guarantees fair incomes, equitable access to food, sustainable production, and democratic participation.
How to take action
Join the call for food justice this year – it’s easier than ever! Choose from our menu below and find an action that suits your capacities! After registering, your action will appear on our European Action Map, and you’ll get an Action Guide with all you need to take action this October. Check out menu below!
Organise an event for #GoodFoodGoodFarming
Each year we invite groups across Europe to organize their own event or register one already planned. Whether it’s a protest, picnic, workshop, film screening, or harvest—online or in person—there are no strict rules, just one cause: #GoodFoodGoodFarming!
If you already have a food or farming activity planned between October 1 and 31, don’t hesitate to register it below to get featured on our Action Map! This year we also offer grants of up to 500 euros to organize your own event. Just sign up in the registration form below with a few lines on exactly why YOUR event should get the grant. We will get in touch if you have been selected!
Host a screening of “The Pickers”
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There are over two million migrant agricultural workers in Europe. They are an essential part of our food system. But this work often leads them into modern slavery: unacceptable working and living conditions, pay without a minimum wage, inadequate access to healthcare and the violation of their basic freedoms and human rights.
Together with Film & Campaign Ltd. we provide free screening licenses to host a public viewing of ‘the Pickers‘, a powerful documentary on migrant workers in Europe’s food system. Sign up below and use the screening to spark discussion on labour justice.
Sign a petition
Join the movement for #FoodJustice by signing one or all of our petitions this October! To make it easy for you to join the campaign we have selected two petitions for you to sign, both covering important aspects of what needs to change in our food systems! Read more below.
1. “Farming That Feeds People, Not Profits” 
Most of us picture peaceful green fields and happy cows when we think of farming. But the reality? Small farms are disappearing. Animals are crammed into industrial mega-farms. And the planet is paying the price.
Every year, billions in EU subsidies—our public money—go to agribusiness giants. While the likes of Bayer-Monsanto rake in profits, we struggle with rising food prices and small farmers don’t earn enough to survive. In just 15 years, Europe lost 5 million farms. Let decision-makers know that we want change by signing the petition for “farming that feeds people, not profits”!
2. “We demand a FAIR PICK”
We shouldn’t have to question whether our food is exploitation free. Existing legal standards and UN guidelines should protect migrant workers in agriculture. However, they are still not universally applied and comprehensively enforced. To make the call for Migrant workers’ rights louder, sign the 10 demands for a FAIR PICK!
Post a picture demanding #FoodJustice
Write your demand on a large sign, and post a photo of yourself holding it with the hashtag #FoodJustice and join the EU-wide action. Don’t forget to tag Good Food Good Farming! Some demands you could focus on are:
- Access to healthy food should not be a privilege but a basic right.
- Real market regulation means putting farmers, workers, and communities before agribusiness profit.
- Food justice means: fair pay, dignity, and safe working conditions from field to fork.
- We will only have a just future if the next generation of farmers does.
- Food justice starts with thriving rural communities, not global supply chains.
- Food justice for one is food justice for none.
Sign up for the action below to receive the toolkit with easy steps and topis on how to join the social media action!
Register your action!
Choose from our menu of actions — from documentary screenings to public events or petitions — and show decision-makers that all of Europe wants food to be recognised as a basic human right.
Raise your voice for Food Justice!
What is food justice?
Food justice is about transforming the whole food system, from the way food is grown, harvested, processed, and distributed, to the way it is shared and eaten, so it feeds people and sustains the planet. It means that everyone, regardless of income, race, gender, or legal status, is part of a food system that provides healthy, affordable, fairly produced, sustainably grown, and culturally appropriate food.
It means shifting power away from corporations and ensuring food is treated as a human right, not a privilege.
Why do we need food justice in Europe?
Today’s food system is driven by profit, not by people’s needs. Market rules reward large-scale production and low prices, pushing farmers to cut costs and lower standards just to survive. At the same time, public policy continues to measure food availability as increased production, rather than focusing on people’s rights, fair access, or ecological limits. Without a shift in priorities, inequality and environmental destruction will only deepen.
How can we achieve food justice?
We need EU food and farming policies to prioritize people and planet – not corporate profits. This only works if we regulate markets and redirect public funding, support new farmers and ensure social equity, work with nature – not against it, guarantee equitable access to food and democratise our food systems!
Raise your voice this October, to demand that politicians support policies for the people, not for corporations!
Our demands for EU food and farming policies!
Get featured on our action map!
As more and more people sign up to take action this October, we will launch our interactive Action Map featuring all the actions taken across Europe! Use the map to check out events and film screenings across Europe, get inspiration for your own action and see the diversity of voices all calling for justice in our food systems! Stay tuned.
Impressions from previous years
More resources!
Want to learn more about food justice? Check out the resources below!
Double Standards on our Plates
It explores the EU's current trade policies and calls for the implementation of "mirror measures" to ensure that imported agricultural products meet the same environmental and health standards as those produced within the EU. Through case studies on soy, rapeseed, beef, and sheep meat, the report illustrates the negative impacts of these disparities and urges the EU to align its trade policies with its Green Deal and Farm to Fork objectives.
Joint report by Slow Food, Fondation pour la Nature et l'Homme, Feedback, Humundi, CNCD 11.11.11., Birdlife.
Go Big or Go Bust
"How the EU's farmers are pushed to produce more to stay in business."
A report by Greenpeace (2024)
Putting market regulation at the heart of the debate about the CAP
ECVC (2023)
Regulate Value Chains and Trade To Reach Sustainable And Equitable Food Systems
Coordination Sud (2024)