Our food system leaves many of us out of the story.
Our food system is facing the hardest moment of our time.
OUR FOOD SYSTEM CAN FEED US ALL
IF IT REFLECTS US ALL.
Europe imagines a food future with cleaner soils, shorter supply chains, healthier plates, and climate resilient communities, but that we don’t see that future being built without the knowledge, design, and leadership of BIPOC, migrant, and diaspora communities.
The story of our food is the story of us.
Europe imagines a just food future, but the design of that future is bypassing the knowledge and leadership of so many communities who sustain it.
We started ARMADA because we see a food system that does not reflect all of us.
A food system that continues to be predominately built on the myth of whiteness; that does not have infrastructure to hold intersectional collaboration; and that often blurs the complexities that make up our communities.
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Whiteness is a myth that allows the erasure of knowledge, of colour, and of diversity.
To do this, we need to change the narrative to meet us all, and we need to organise across siloes. We exist to reshape who gets to imagine and build the future of food in Europe by holding space for collaborations and stories that reflect us, and growing power among racialized peoples who are currently sidelined in this space.
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We envision a food system that tells the complete story of who we all are.
We are building a European food landscape actively rooted in inclusive land sovereignty, diaspora joy, and community-led political power.
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ARMADA is here to colour the food movement.
*How can we collectivise if we don’t know who ‘we’ are? There is limited comprehensive data on this landscape… it’s on our wishlist to map it.
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The food landscape is complicated, but power is front and centre.
9.4 millions
people are employed in European agriculture, but racialised workers hold almost zero institutional power.
Countless
<3%
of corporate farms control over half of all EU agricultural land.
collectives, associations, NGOs, local producers, advocates exist across the EU, but are either siloed or preaching to the choir.
The movement remains overwhelmingly white-led in both story and in structure.
Racialised communities, including the millions of migrant farmworkers across the EU, remain central to the system but peripheral to its decision-making.
Right now, the people who grow, move, cook, sell, and sustain food systems, especially migrant, diaspora, and racialised communities, are often left out of the spaces where food policy, funding, and storytelling happen.
We tried not to make another standalone initiative: Over 300,000 civil society organisations are registered across Italy, Portugal, Spain, and France alone.
We tried to integrate into the existing landscape, but this work is hard to find.
So, we are building a backbone.
Leass than 5% of organisations across Europe are talking about this, and even fewer are acting on it.
ARMADA harnesses two political levers for change: narrative infrastructure and community organizing. backbone for Europe’s food movement.
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We need movement infrastructure that can break siloes, shift norms, reshape legitimacy, and make inclusion an operational principle. ARMADA believes in a collective impact approach that invites you to be a part of creating an inclusive backbone that connects food justice, racial justice, and migrant rights that, in Europe, often advocate in silos.
We are a gathering space for a food movement led, strategised and co-authored by all of us.
Narrative Power
so the story reflects our communities.
Community Organising
so isolated work becomes a collective force
Why now?
The decisions shaping the next decade of European food, land ownership and climate funding are being locked in the next 18 months.
The European Union is currently drafting the post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (check this out for a detailed breakdown).
This is the massive legislative blueprint that dictates exactly how farming, rural development, and food production are structured across the continent.
This post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy controls a €38 billion budget spanning 27 countries.
It impacts millions of hectares of agricultural land, and touches the daily realities of every single person in the food supply chain. That’s you, that’s me. That’s all of us.
We have until January 2028.
Our window to mobilise has begun.
Structural inclusion has waited long enough. Intervening right now means that we can influence this transition capital reaching the grassroots and reflecting the needs of all of us.