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When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
When we talk about power, it’s easy to picture it as something held tightly at the top – in boardrooms, parliaments, or corporate offices. But power also lives in fields, kitchens, and community halls.
This June, near Warsaw, the Healthy Food Healthy Planet Annual Forum 2025 brought together changemakers from across Europe to ask: what if power could be structured differently? Instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few, what if it were shared collectively to drive the transformation of global food systems toward greater justice, sustainability, and fairness for all?
Exploring power, together
For the four days of the Annual Forum, the whole space buzzed as people shared meals, traded stories, and sketched bold visions of what a fairer food system could look like. Guided by this year’s theme of “Building Our Collective Power”, we explored the change made possible if we stop seeing power as something over us, but rather something we can build with each other, reclaim and foster within ourselves – and how this could ultimately help transform food systems.
Frameworks, such as the Power Cube, helped us unpack the visible and hidden ways that power can exist within the food system, from funding structures and corporate influence to the everyday barriers preventing communities from reclaiming agency over how food is grown, shared and valued.
Stories that show the way
Through Storytelling Workshops, we heard how communities across Europe are already building fairer, more resilient food systems, bringing the theme of collective power to life.
Demonstrating how collective action can challenge structural injustice, farm workers in Almeria, Spain, united to secure the right to safe housing and fair conditions, reminding us how food justice is deeply intertwined with worker justice. Over in the UK, Farming the Future showed us how rethinking the way money flows to frontline organisations using participatory decision-making can ensure that funding serves the people driving change, and not the other way around.
Elsewhere, groups like ProVeg International are reframing the plant-based narrative in EU policy, moving plant-based advocacy from niche to core policy discussions. They’re demonstrating how we can reclaim and redefine our own power, and as a result, enhance our influence. Meanwhile, the story of Poland’s Green REV Institute showed how local communities can take the lead when systems fail to deliver.
All these stories remind us that change doesn’t just occur in policy rooms or boardrooms, but wherever people come together to resist domination and work together to reimagine the future.
Wellbeing is part of the work
A movement can only be as strong as the people within it. Sustaining this work, especially in the face of entrenched power, requires care and resilience. That’s why wellbeing and collective care were woven into the heart of this year’s forum. The importance of cultivating an inner power, resilience and imagination to sustain our activism cannot and should not be overlooked.
As part of our Wellbeing Workshops, we reconnected with ourselves and each other, taking the space as a collective to pause, breathe and reflect on the importance of the work we are doing.
In Embodied Power, we explored how meditation and bodywork can ground us, strengthening our resilience and effectiveness. In other sessions, like Sound Healing, we explored the way music and vibration can calm the nervous system and foster clarity. Together, we remembered that caring for ourselves is also caring for each other, and this kind of care is what makes us stronger as a collective movement.
Practical tools, shared courage
Alongside storytelling and reflection, the forum also offered practical spaces where people could build skills for action to carry home.
Workshops such as “See You in Court” broke down the intimidating world of litigation into practical steps, providing participants the confidence to explore it as one tool among many. Whereas Nonviolent Communication for Campaigners helped us practice empathy and find the shared human needs that exist beneath conflict – reminding us that despite our apparent differences, it is still possible to meet eye-to-eye. The creative workshop on Foodscaping, on the other hand, showed us how fairer, healthier food environments can literally be built into the design of our cities and shared public spaces.
Whether through legal action, empathic tools, or reimaging landscapes, these sessions provided us with practical tools and shared courage. Everyone left not only filled with fresh ideas, but also a sense of empowerment vital to reweaving complex food systems that surround us.
Carrying it forward
As the forum drew to a close, people gathered one last time at the Pro-Action Café where they shared their hopes and challenges. Leaning on each other’s wisdom and courage, we were reminded that shifting power is slow, patient work rooted in trust, relationships, and a shared purpose that would carry us forward long after the forum ended.
A shared commitment
Collective power isn’t just political, but deeply personal. It’s in the everyday ways we resist injustice, stand with one another, and imagine new possibilities. At the Annual Forum, we explored what it means to challenge domination, build solidarity, reclaim agency, and nurture resilience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of collective power that can be used to transform food systems for the better of both people and the planet.
A Pan-European movement uniting civil society organisations and funders so that healthy, just and sustainable food environments become the norm and harmful agriculture ends.
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