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 (...)
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 (...)
(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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Not only are the small-scale fisher communities best placed to ensure food sovereignty, but they are also the starting point for any serious transition towards an ecologically and socially just food regime. We need a revolution to bring the oceans back into the global commons.
70 years ago, (...)
(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 (...)
(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 paysanne est et (...)
(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 (...)
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 (...)
‘…there is compelling case that the current global food system, propelled by an increasingly powerful transnational food industry, is responsible for around half of all human produced greenhouse gas emissions: anywhere between a low of 44% to a high of 57%”.
THE PROBLEM?
As human beings, we (...)
The whole effort in this document is to depict how we are able to rebuild the peasant economy as the answer to the crisis of neo-liberal capitalist economy. This is particularly in relation to Sri Lanka and the South Asian Region.
The majority of our people live in the rural areas of this (...)
The rise of flex crops—crops with multiple uses across food, feed, fuel and industrial complexes—has far-reaching implications for global land governance.
Reports of land grabbing from various parts of the world continue to come in: land grabbing for agriculture to produce food, feed, biofuels (...)
The land is a source of wealth for a few, here and on the other side of the planet. In the Spanish State, the housing boom has left a legacy of ruinous urban development, airports (almost) without airplanes, ghost towns, huge, obsolete infrastructure projects… And in the global South, the desire (...)
Knowing what we eat has become something which is every day more difficult. The recent food scandal where horse meat was detected in beef highlights this clearly. Cannelloni from La Cocinera, burgers from Eroski, ravioli and tortellini from Buitoni, and Ikea meatballs are some of the products (...)
Three, two, one, zero… The sales are now on. Offers, discounts, % off… fill the shop windows of the high streets and the shopping centres. It is the time to buy and to buy cheaply. But… Is what we’re buying really so cheap? What is being hidden behind the clothing and domestic appliances? Who are (...)
Food security is in fact much more than just food production, distribution and consumption. Food is the top most priority of everybody since our inception. It gives us energy to grow and live stronger. Apart from dietary needs, food has a cultural value as well. Many cultures hold some food (...)
Land grabbing Q&A with Shalmali Guttal, from Focus on the Global South. Opinion and comment from Future Agricultures researchers on agricultural politics, science and society in Africa.
Q: You said during the opening session: ‘How much more information is necessary for us to know that this (...)
This is an edited version of a lecture given at the 21st Century Marxism seminar organised by Socialist Resistance at the IIRE Amsterdam in June.
It is generally agreed that the ‘global land grab’ began around 2007/8 when worldwide interest in the purchasing or leasing of land jumped to (...)
The threat of a new food crisis is already a reality. The price of food began to rise to record levels again, according to the FAO Food Price Index of February, 2011, which does a monthly analysis of global prices of a basic food basket made up of grains, seed oils, dairy products, meat and (...)
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