After the health alert, in many countries, the COVID-19 epidemic has led to a very significant food crisis, which all experts predict will go further. In countries with a high level of informal employment, confinement has made work impossible and, thus, the situation of poverty has worsened.
Setting a priority for cross-border cooperation
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) through the EGTC Platform, the European Commission’s Border Focal Point and the regional organisations Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) and the Central European ...
Will the global 2020 agenda be virtual?
A joint meeting of the International Committee and the National Committee of the V Local Development Forum was held on 24 April. The following day a meeting of the Global Task Force, the space that brings together local and regional organizations, to address the global agenda in a coordinated manner.
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A new cross-border day tomorrow?
Since the 12th of March I have been working from home. Lucky me, because I live in the countryside close to the sea and close to the forest. I live in a small village. I have my own house with a garden. I have lot of space. I have close to local food and some of my relatives are living close to me too. I live in a maritime cross-border region, the Kvarken region, with a maritime border to Sweden. It is situated quite up in the Northern part of Europe. I live myself on the Finnish side. If you look at the map, I live outside the city of Vaasa, by the sea. For many of you the situation may look quite different and also your home border region. Usually many border regions are quite peripheral, far away from the capitals. Together with partners from the other...
From Food Security to Food Sovereignty
Food security and food sovereignty are very different categories, in their origins, in their objectives and in their achievement. Food security focuses primarily on addressing issues of nutrition or access to food. As long as food sovereignty considers the right to food in an integral way, which cannot be dissociated from the rights of farmers, the rights to land and territories, cultural rights, the human right to water, the care of one’s own seeds, urban or rural permaculture or agroecology, cultivation without transgenic or agrotoxic crops, family and community farming.
