Category: Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
A pile of grain in Karnataka, India. Photo: Pixy / Creative Commons
Corporate-Controlled Global Food Supply Chains Must Go
The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of...
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Farmers demonstrate at the Singhu Border protest camp outside New Delhi on 29 December 2020. Photo: Ranjini Basu
A visit to India’s Singhu Border protest camp
For more than a month, farmers have laid siege to India’s national capital New Delhi, demanding...
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Representatives of farmer unions leave Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi after a meeting with Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on 5 December 2020. Photo: Kamal Singh/PTI
Long march to peasant unity
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built...
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In Defence of Democracy and the Farmers’ Movement
Media Release The widespread farmers agitations against the pro-business and anti-farmer...
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Cambodian farmer and land rights activist Oum Samorl. Photo: Ridan Sun
Our disease is landlessness
Cambodian farmer Oum Samorl and her family lost their farm to a corporate land grab 15 years ago....
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Indigenous self-determination: a blueprint for the ‘good life’
In an age of global warming, rising authoritarianism, and the corporate-led delusion of infinite...
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Farmers, fishers, rural women, indigenous peoples, and civil society organizations come together to organize a press conference that aims to raise the alarm over the severe crisis in food, land, fisheries, livelihoods, and natural resources precipitated by the Duterte administration's neoliberal economic policies. [2019 October 15. Quezon City, Philippines. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.]
Resist the corporate takeover of agriculture, lands, waters, and natural resources
Statement on the World Food Day, 2019 October 15 We are in the midst of a food crisis. This is a...
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Battling corporate concentration in agriculture
by Pavan Kulkarni via People’s Dispatch Farmers’ leaders, civil society activists, academics...
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Solidarity with Those Who Feed the World
Introduction Asia, home to about 4.5 billion people or almost 60% of the total world population,...
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Event: Focus Policy Review 2019 launch
Focus on the Global South (Focus) will launch its Focus Policy Review 2019, “Critical...
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No to Rice Trade Liberalization Law, An Anti-Farmer Measure!
We, from various national farmer organizations, civil society groups, and food sovereignty...
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RCEP must not undermine farmers’ rights, especially to protect their own plant varieties
RCEP Negotiations Must Not Include Obligation to Join or Implement UPOV Systems and In...
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