Category: Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
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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10 Years of Struggle for Land and Life
The Southern Peasants’ Federation of Thailand (SPFT) celebrated their 10th...
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Toward land justice : Thai farmers’ struggles to defend their land and life
A public event was held on 17 to 18 November 2018 at Thammasat University, Bangkok to discuss and...
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Farmers protest passage of Rice Tariffication Bill
Pasay City, Philippines – Around 200 rice farmers, farmworkers, rural youth and women from...
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Dangers posed by RCEP for agriculture & smallholder farmers
The following is a discussion note by Afsar Jafri for a lecture at the 4th Kisan Swaraj Sammelan...
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Corporate control and food sovereignty: issues and ways forward
Report from a forum on corporate concentration in agriculture and food, and its implications on...
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