European Days of Action 2025
The current industrial system fails farmers, people and nature
The European Days of Action create a platform for people to call for change in our food systems. This October, join thousands of citizens, farmers and civil society organisations in demanding food justice!
How to take action
Join the call to take action for food justice this year – it’s easier than ever!
Explore the menu below and find an action that suits your capacities.
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.
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 want 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!
Our menu of actions has something for everyone, from signing a petition to organising an event or joining our social media campaign. Be part of the European Days of Action 2025 and help send a loud message to decision-makers!
European Action Map 2025
Use the Action Map to check out upcoming events and film screenings across Europe and get inspiration for your own action. Over the years, thousands of actions have taken place in over 32 countries. This is what democracy looks like!
Raise your voice for Food Justice!
What is it?
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.
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 it?
Europe has lost five million farms in the past 15 years, and one in ten Europeans can no longer afford a healthy meal every other day.
At the same time, agricultural workers, 2 million of them migrants, face some of the harshest working conditions in the EU, while the dominant model of industrial agriculture continues to destroy nature and worsen the climate crisis.
The system is failing the farmers who grow our food, the people who eat it, and the environment that sustains it. We need to urgently turn this around.
How can we achieve it?
If rooted in agroecology, our food system could feed a growing population while cutting agrifood emissions by 40%.
To make farmers livelihoods more just, we need stronger market rules and to redirect public funds to support farmers in implementing nature-friendly, rights-based practices.
To reverse the trend of disappearing farms in Europe, new farmers and food workers need training, fair pay, and safe working conditions.
To ensure better access to healthy food for all, public kitchens should prioritise local, sustainable and healthy produce.
Our demands for EU food and farming policies!
Impressions from previous years
More resources!
Want to learn more about food justice? Check out the resources below!
Rooted in Justice – Global voices on food, power, and liberation
"A publication exploring food justice from diverse perspectives, drawing on multiple sources and forms of knowledge. - especially those typically seen together, such as Indigenous storytelling processes, data science, and academic research."
By the Global Alliance for the Future of Food (2025)
Contesting the politics of food – seeds of sovereignty
This dossier by the Rosa Luxemburg foundation (2024) brings together leading experts and thinkers on the food crisis such as Jennifer Clapp
and Raj Patel, in dialogue with practitioners and activists like Million Belay of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), which is directly involved in the struggle to create just and sustainable systems of food production and distribution.
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.
Breaking the grass ceiling: Gender inequality in agriculture
A report analysing the inequalities and barries for female farmers in European agriculture (2025)
Go Big or Go Bust
"How the EU's farmers are pushed to produce more to stay in business."
A report by Greenpeace (2024)
Towards a gender transformative CAP – SWIFT Policy Brief
SWIFT’s recommendations to address gender inequalities in the next CAP (2025)
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)
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