Open call: International Conference of Researchers and Farmers, 3-4 March 2025 Rethinking the regulation of agricultural markets for agroecological transition in Europe

To participate in the conference, contributions are required. Farmers and academics are invited to submit proposals for both academic and non-academic contributions. These contributions will focus on three main themes:

• Market regulation policies in Europe
• Food sovereignty and global market regulation
• Agroecological transition

Submit by 1 September 2024. Contributions will be reviewed by 20 October 2024, with final submissions due by 20 January 2025. More details in the call to contribution document.

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The current context in Europe and elsewhere bears multiple uncertainties and risks concerning food, public health, the geopolitical situation, the environment (including climate) and energy sources. Since the beginning of 2024, farmers have mobilised in Europe and beyond to ask for decent prices and decent livelihoods. Agricultural market regulation can be a way to get out of the crisis. This is all the more necessary given that right-wing groups have been trying to capture the political momentum and farmers' movements, in particular in order to influence the elections in the European Parliament and to attack the environmental agenda linked to the Green deal.

What lessons can be drawn from the successes and failures of past policies to regulate agricultural markets, in Europe and elsewhere in the world, to rebuild the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the basis of food sovereignty1 and enable the agroecological transition?

The journal Economie Rurale is a partner of the conference: a special issue or special forum in this journal may be organized for selected papers from this conference, appropriate to the journal's editorial line.