On September 26, our volunteers will mobilize across France for the right to food and climate justice

This mobilization reflects one of our association’s core convictions: the fight against hunger and the fight against climate change are deeply interconnected. Ensuring the right to food for everyone means taking action today to build societies that are more resilient in the face of climate-related crises.

Climate and food: two inseparable struggles

The right to food means ensuring that farmers can make a decent living from their work and produce healthy, high-quality food using the farming methods of their choice. As extreme weather events become more frequent and intense, adapting to climate change must become a priority across the country.

This requires, in particular, greater support for small-scale, agroecological farming that can protect natural resources while providing decent livelihoods for the people who feed us.

But the right to food is also about ensuring that everyone has access to quality food that they can choose for themselves. People experiencing poverty and economic hardship are particularly exposed to the impacts of climate change, whether through heatwaves, the rising cost of living or difficulties accessing essential services.

The right to food is therefore closely linked to other fundamental rights, including the rights to health, housing and social protection. The heatwaves of recent months have once again highlighted the vulnerabilities faced by those most at risk.

Impacts that are already being felt

The impacts of climate change are already taking a heavy toll on the agricultural sector:

• Farmers have lost between 15% and one third of their harvests, depending on the type of crop, directly threatening their livelihoods
• Market gardeners are among the hardest-hit farming professionals
• Extreme heat is also threatening livestock farming, causing the deaths of many animals and putting livestock feed supplies at risk
• Falling production levels increase the risk of higher food prices, with direct consequences for access to food among low-income households.

The longer we delay adapting, the greater the human, social and economic costs will be!

Join the movement

Across France, our volunteers will be joining the marches to remind everyone that there can be no effective fight against hunger without ambitious climate action.

Through this mobilization, we are calling for public policies that protect the most vulnerable, support sustainable farming and guarantee the right to food for all.

On September 26, let’s march together for climate justice and the right to food.

If you would like to join us at one of the marches, contact our local volunteer groups: