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Book Launch: The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism

by Anisa | Jul 9, 2024 | Asia/World, Climate & Environment, Event, Philippines, Trade and Investment

THE TIME FOR DENIAL IS OVER. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Beneath the sustainability branding lurk new environmental...

Reang Penbei Tor Fisheries Community on Sustaining Fisheries in Tonle Sap

by Anisa | Jun 29, 2024 | Cambodia, Climate & Environment, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Mekong Region

Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, is vital for many fishing communities in Cambodia. The lake undergoes a remarkable transformation each year: during the rainy season, it expands dramatically, while in the dry season, it contracts,...

Survival Above Water: The Women of Anlong Reang Fishery Site in the Tonle Sap

by Anisa | Jun 29, 2024 | Cambodia, Climate & Environment, Mekong Region, Women

Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, is a vital resource for Cambodia, supporting numerous floating villages. These villages are home to communities that rely on fishing for their livelihoods, adapting to the lake’s seasonal fluctuations....

The Challenges and Triumphs of Agroecology: A Visit to Ta Soun Natural Farm in Cambodia

by Anisa | Jun 29, 2024 | Cambodia, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Mekong Region

In the heart of Sdei Kraom village, Preaek Luong commune, Ek-phnom district, Battambang province, Cambodia, lies Ta Soun Natural Farm. Managed by Soun Somnang, a determined and resourceful woman, this farm shows the hard work and dedication needed for agroecology...

On the Anniversary of Agrarian Reform Law, Farmers intensify their demand for distribution of agrarian lands, support for farmers, and an end to the criminalization of land rights struggles

by Anisa | Jun 24, 2024 | Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Philippines, Power and Democracy

By Isaak C. Heller On June 10th, members of the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA) joined a protest action in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform in commemoration of the 36th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. The mobilization was meant...

IMPLICATIONS OF RE-GLOBALIZATION AGENDA ON MULTILATERALISM AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

by Anisa | May 30, 2024 | Alternative Regionalisms, Asia/World, Corporate Accountability, Event, Trade and Investment

by Joseph Purugganan There are calls as well for new multilateralism in trade governance. These calls and demands come in the wake of the failures of the existing trade regime to address issues of rising inequality, wealth concentration, destruction of the...

Building Solidarity from Below: The Intensifying Wars in Myanmar and Palestine, their effects on People’s, and the role plates by regional and global powers

by Anisa | May 30, 2024 | Asia/World, Event, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy

By Joseph Purugganan The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) Philippines, an educational and research organization that spearheads the annual Asian regional school for social activists, together with Focus on Global South, International Peace...

[Joint Statement] Thailand: Justice for Bung Sanesangkhom, stop harassment against dissent

by Anisa | May 21, 2024 | Mekong Region, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy, Statement, Thailand

Originally posted on FORUM-ASIA website here. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS), Focus on the Global South, Front Line Defenders, Asia Democracy Network are profoundly saddened...

International Statement: World Bank Out of Land!

by Anisa | May 14, 2024 | Asia/World, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Statement

originally published here. On the opening day of the World Bank’s 2024 Land Conference, organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society denounce the World Bank as a major actor of land grabbing and...