Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by McVEIGH Tracy
More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates sign open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production
A rice paddy during a drought in Uttaradit, northern Thailand. Rice production around the world is stagnating and even declining. Photograph: Jack Taylor/The Guardian
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, by La Via Campesina, ODY Morgan
This week, from the 14th to 18th October, La Via Campesina delegates are in Rome participating in the Global Family Farming Forum, an event on the Midway of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028). Morgan Ody, the General Coordinator of La Via Campesina spoke during the opening (…)
, by RAY Deepak
Profound changes are underway in food production as agriculture and agribusiness respond to the growth of the global middle class. Harvests of crops for processing, exports and industrial use are booming. Deepak Ray unpacks a research paper that projects what these changes will mean for 10 crops (…)
, by La Via Campesina
Harare:
La Via Campesina is among scores of other social movements of organized small-scale food producers, workers and indigenous people boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), slated to take place in New York – September 23rd, 2021. Peoples’ movements are united in (…)
, by SUBRAMANIAN Samanth
Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade.
It wasn’t very long ago that a banana was just a banana – just a curved, yellow fruit. All you knew, if you bought a bunch in (…)
, by MARTINEZ Elsa Nury, TORREZ Fausto
Throughout history, the progressive transformation of agricultural production has at its basis the struggle for land. This struggle aims to introduce a radical change in the productive structure; as a consequence, the agrarian issue is significant for the coexistence of humanity and it was dealt (…)
, by CUSRI, ETC Group, Focus on the Global South
Report from a forum on corporate concentration in agriculture and food, and its implications on food sovereignty in South East Asia.
On 24 July 2018, Focus on the Global South, ETC Group, and the Chulalongkorn University Research Institute (CUSRI) organized a forum in Bangkok on corporate (…)
, by PADMA T.V.
Rice could produce fewer proteins, vitamins and minerals essential for humans in response to rising carbon dioxide concentrations that are implicated in global warming, new research assessments from 10 countries that consume the most rice has shown. This effect “is not due to global warming. It (…)
, by LEVERINK Joris, SHIVA Vandana
In an era of climate change, rejuvenating and regenerating the soil through ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species.
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned Indian scholar, environmental activist and author of over twenty books. She has been involved in (…)
, by SACHS Carolyn
Preserving biodiversity through farmer control of seeds
Lead-up study to the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62)
While women make up close to half of the world’s farmers, their access to agricultural resources and land is often severely limited. As a result, (…)
, by LEROY Aurélie
The starting point of this study is a paradox : among social, institutional and political actors, peasant and family farming are gradually becoming established as legitimate and credible alternatives to an agro-productivist model that has ’run out of steam’. They address both environmental and (…)
, by PLESTED James
US agriculture giant Monsanto has agreed to a US$66 billion takeover by German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer. If the deal is approved by international regulators, Bayer-Monsanto will become the world’s biggest agribusiness, controlling 29 percent of the global seed market and 24 (…)
, by La Via Campesina
(Zimbabwe, Harare,May 27th 2015) La Via Campesina (LVC), a worldwide movement representing millions of peasants, agricultural workers, indigenous villages and nomadic peoples, denounces the corporate takeover of the World Expo in Milan as well as the governmental complicity. The theme of the (…)
, by ALONSO-FRADEJAS Alberto, LIU Juan, SALERNO Tania, XU Yunan
A campaigners’ guide to the multiple uses of palm oil and how producers and industrial users shift between them
The ‘how’ and ‘why’ of oil palm flexing is heavily influenced by a synthesis of forces and relations within and around the oil palm value web. These dynamics impact the way flexing (…)
, by FERRANDO Tomaso, RUSSI Luigi
The disappearing boundaries between financial speculation and development aid are an unsettling testimony to the rapid financialization of agriculture.
A big piece of news for food politics enthusiasts this summer was India’s veto over a proposed agreement — to be concluded within the legal (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
Do the rich and poor eat the same? Do our incomes determine our diet? Today, who is overweight? Although often, and from certain quarters, the call for healthy and wholesome food is viewed with disdain, as “a fad” “posh”, “hippy” or “flower power” the reality is rather different than these (…)
, by GRAIN, La Via Campesina
(29 May 2014) Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small farmers control the largest share of the world’s agricultural land. When the director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation inaugurated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming, he (…)
, par Via Campesina (Europe)
(Evenstad, 4 mars 2014) Les paysannes et paysans rassemblés en Norvège pour l’Assemblée générale annuelle de la Coordination Européenne Via campesina et leurs alliés présentent sept mesures pour renforcer l’agriculture familiale paysanne, maintenant !
Aujourd’hui l’agriculture familiale (…)
(Evenstad, 4 March 2014 ) The peasants gathered together in Norway for the Annual General Assembly of European Coordination Via Campesina and their allies present Seven measures for strengthening peasant family farming, now!
At present, peasant family farming is and remains the most widespread (…)
, by ETC Group, GRAIN, La Via Campesina
7 November 2013. Farmers produce food, not carbon. Yet, if some of the governments and corporate lobbies negotiating at the UN climate change conference to be held in Warsaw from 11-22 November have their way, farmland could soon be considered as a carbon sink that polluting corporations can buy (…)
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