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We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
We know transformation grows where communities lead, knowledge is pooled, and power is shared. Our latest Calls to Collective Action didn’t just surface strong project proposals, it offered a glimpse into a movement stretching what’s possible when imagination meets organised action.
We selected five projects to support from a vibrant ecosystem of 151 proposals, spanning sub-national leadership and local action, corporate accountability, and the transformation of intensive livestock systems. Each project is a vital experiment in reshaping Europe’s food future, including:
Yet the deeper story lies in what the full field of applications revealed about the movement itself. Five key themes emerged from this latest round of collective action proposals, signalling where momentum is building in the food systems movement, and where deeper tending is still needed.
Justice was more than just a theme amongst the proposals, it lived at the heart of every idea for change.
In local leadership projects, food was framed as a right, and lived experience as essential to shaping policy. Efforts focused on corporate accountability, pushed for regulation and responsibility from those profiting from harm.
While challenging intensive livestock systems, justice meant protection and redress for communities facing health, environmental, and labour impacts. Taken together, it’s clear that the movement knows that true transformation begins by centring those most impacted, redistributing power, and rooting every step in dignity and equity.
It was made clear that farming is recognised as more than a method of production, but also as a site of democracy in action, and of possibility and stewardship for change. Local leadership proposals rooted agroecology, regenerative practices and land stewardship in policy advocacy, placing farmers at the centre as architects of change.
When it came to tackling corporate accountability, farming was seen through the lens of supply chains, subsidies, and trade rules, calling for systemic reforms to reduce corporate-driven intensive practices and support sustainable alternatives. Similarly, in resisting intensive livestock systems, proposals positioned farming as a pathway for change, towards more plant-rich, regenerative food systems grounded in community leadership.
The thread across all these areas was clear: when farmers and communities lead, farming can become a political vehicle for justice, resilience, and shared power.
Litigation appeared in many of the proposals as a vital strategic tool for corporate accountability proposals.
Some project proposals put legal action, regulatory reform, and accountability mechanisms as central to plans that will help shift power and end harmful practices. Campaigns aimed at resisting factory farming also used environmental, health, and animal-welfare law alongside advocacy to strengthen local protections and curb expansion.
Even in local leadership projects, legal tools were vital to uphold land rights and environmental safeguards. This growing focus signals a recognition that law is a key arena for structural change, to enforce rights, expose harm, and catalyse policy reform.
Again and again, the proposals reminded us that systems shift not only through policy, but through the stories being told.
Local leadership proposals lifted tales of community wisdom and farmer truth, revealing the invisible structural forces shaping food choices. Corporate accountability efforts, pushed back against corporate spin, exposing practices that undermine people and planet. And across plans to challenge industrial livestock systems, narrative change focused on dietary shifts and broadening public understanding of the human and environmental costs of factory farming.
The movement knows that the seeds of storytelling, planted with intention, builds belonging, reshapes what feels possible, and create the cultural foundations for lasting change.
Across applications, communities consistently emerged as the drivers of meaningful change.
In local leadership projects youth, farmers, and grassroots groups were positioned as leading mobilisation and policy engagement. In corporate accountability efforts, community power was positioned as more strategic, with youth and farmers seen as key partners in advocacy coalitions.
Meanwhile, project proposals to confront industrial livestock systems, centred rural communities and farmers directly affected by industrial expansion, with youth organising amplifying calls for accountability and protection.
This pattern is unmistakeable. When communities lead, momentum speeds up and change becomes a shared path forward.
All of this didn’t just show us where energy is building, it also revealed what the movement needs to truly thrive.
Funders have a vital role not just in backing projects, but in nourishing the ecosystem around them. This call for collective action applications has reaffirmed what we already know: learning spaces and long-term relationships can’t be seen as luxuries, but key conditions for change. Movements move at the speed of trust. Funding must leave space for the time, care and shared reflection required to grow it.
Our role, when we provide funding, is simple and ongoing: to listen deeply, tailor support, nurture connection, and back the imagination and relationships that create the momentum for lasting change to take root.
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