Results from Leipzig 2014

Proposals for the Transition

• Urban Planning should foresee areas for planting local food (i.e. Apple trees on streets) (local level)
• Subsidies for small scale ecological food production (EU Level)
• Taxes for agroindustry (EU level)
• collective land ownership & collective production and processing should have a better legal framework (national level)
• education should teach alternatives (society level)
• Right to Land for small farmers (global level)

Visions for a degrowth society

• much less animal life-stock living in much better conditions
• produce locally which is possible and trade globally what is necessary
• direct connections between producers and consumers food sovereignty

Controversial questions

• What degree of de-industrialisation should we aim at in agriculture?
• Should markets continue to exist?