The signature collection for the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative (ECI) Food is a Human Right for All! officially opened today, marking a decisive moment for food justice in Europe. The Initiative calls on the European Union to recognise food as a fundamental human right through binding legislative measures, guaranteeing access for all people living in the EU to adequate, sustainable and dignified food.<\/p>\n
A European Citizens\u2019 Initiative (ECI) is a participatory democratic instrument provided by EU law that allows citizens to formally invite the European Commission to propose new legislation. To be considered, an ECI must collect at least one million validated signatures from EU citizens across a minimum number of Member States.
\nWhile the Commission is not obliged to adopt the proposed legislation, it is legally required to examine the Initiative, meet its organisers and publicly respond to its demands.
\nThe ECI is supported by the Good Food for All Coalition which brings together more than 240 organisations from across Europe, active in the social, agricultural, environmental, animal welfare, food and human rights fields, working collectively to advance concrete policy proposals for fairer and more sustainable food systems.
\n\u201cAt a moment when food insecurity is expanding across Europe and industrial food systems are increasingly exposed for their social and ecological failures, the Food is a Human Right for All! European Citizens\u2019 Initiative makes a simple and non-negotiable demand: access to adequate food is a fundamental human right, not a variable of the market\u201d Walter el Nagar, EU Campaign Coordinator, Good Food for All – Europe<\/p>\n
Objectives of the Initiative:
\nThrough this Initiative, citizens invite the European Commission to:
\n\u2013 recognise food as a fundamental human right within EU policies and legislation;
\n\u2013 move beyond emergency-based and assistance-oriented approaches to food access;
\n\u2013 ensure dignified, adequate and sustainable food for all people living in the European Union;
\n\u2013 strengthen policy coherence across agriculture, social, health and environmental policies in relation to the right to food.<\/p>\n
Official public launch in Brussels
\nThe official public launch of the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative will take place with a flashmob on 14 January 2026 at 12:30, at Place Luxembourg, in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.<\/p>\n
How to participate
\nSignature collection is open to all EU citizens as of 7 January 2026 and will last for a year. Each signature contributes to reaching the threshold required for the Initiative to be formally examined by the European Commission.<\/p>\n
More information and signature collection: https:\/\/www.goodfoodforall.eu\/<\/a> Good Food For All is a Brussels-based non-governmental organization created to advocate for and implement the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative (ECI) titled \u201cFood is a Human Right for All!\u201d. Our mission is to ensure the universal realization of the right to food within the European Union through democratic action and legal reform. The signature collection for the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative (ECI) Food is a Human Right for All! officially opened today, marking a decisive moment for food justice in Europe. The Initiative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":341349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[582,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaign","category-home","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSign here: https:\/\/eci.ec.europa.eu\/053\/public<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe ECI was born out of the Second Demopratic Forum on the Right to Food, held in Geneva, where more than 60 representatives of European civil society collaborated in drafting this historic initiative.
\nGood Food For All \u2013 Europe
\nNGO number: 1018.139.219 – TOPOS Parlement, Rue d’Arlon 25, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"