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Éric Toussaint interviewed by Dora Villanueva (La Jornada – Mexico)

Large-scale speculators increase their profits in the grain market

4 May 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Dora Villanueva

Éric Toussaint, the spokesperson for the international network of the Committee for the abolition of illegitimate debts (Cadtm), explains that international private investment funds have already benefited from a problem that will not remain mere (...)
Averting the Looming Food Crisis

27 March 2022 - by Sandun Thududgala

A food crisis is inevitable. Food prices are soaring; shortages in essential food items are creating long queues, affecting people’s ability to work and get on with productive lives; the foreign reserve crisis has restricted the country’s ability (...)
How the Exploitation of Africa Helps Fuel Global Capitalism

8 January 2022 - by Chris Dite, Maha Ben Gadha

The political and economic crises roiling countries like Sudan and Tunisia right now cannot be separated from the global institutions of capital and the cycles of indebtedness that they impose. The political and economic crises in Sudan, (...)
Development banks have no business financing agribusiness

19 October 2021 - by Collectif

On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks in Rome, groups from around the world have signed a letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture, environmental destruction and corporate control of (...)
How the farm reforms will destroy India’s farmers and food security?

16 October 2021 - by Tanmoy Ibrahim

A massive wave of farmers’ protest movements against the anti-farmer agriculture bills and amendment to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, has stunned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as it couldn’t believe that a mass (...)
While 282 million Africans go to bed hungry every night

1 October 2021 - by Carol Thompson

More than 500 indigenous and farmer organizations across the continents have raised their voices to expose the UN’s Food Systems Summit as only advocating one food system—so they’re being silenced. The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) (...)
Farmers mobilisation in the backdrop of an agrarian crisis

21 May 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar

The agricultural laws proposed in 2020 by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government - the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and (...)
‘Unequal ecological exchange’ worsens across time and space, creating growing Northern environmental liabilities

19 May 2021 - by Patrick Bond, Rahul Basu

What is “unequal ecological exchange,” especially when applied to resource flows affecting the Global South and its future generations? How does the North’s ecological debt – also termed environmental liabilities – to the South grow, as a result? (...)
Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective

2 April 2021 - by Archana Prasad

Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal (...)
Against the Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and Solidarity!

1 March 2021 - by La Via Campesina

March 8, 2021 - Working Women’s Day (Harare February 25, 2021) This March 8th 2021, organized in our diversity and together with one single voice we declare: Against the Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and (...)
Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture

17 December 2020 - by GRAIN

Financial flows going into agriculture are growing more and more institutionalised – and more and more private. To be sure, investing in agriculture has been going on since time immemorial. After all, farmers do it every day as they improve their (...)
Strengthening Agro-business Capitalism and Weakening Federalism

4 December 2020 - by Pritam Singh

India is currently rocked by farmer’s protest. Tens of thousands of farmers have surrounded India’s capital, New Delhi, where they intend to camp out for weeks to protest against the contentious new agricultural laws that could destroy their (...)
#Nov25: Peasants in the Struggle for our Rights, against the Virus of Capital and Patriarchy!

29 October 2020 - by La Via Campesina

Call to Action – November 25th – International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Violence against Women. Harare – October 28th, 2020: Today, November 25th – La Via Campesina calls to affirm Food Sovereignty as a concrete measure of the (...)
International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations

21 September 2020 - by WRM

Help stop the advance of monoculture tree plantations in the global South, especially in African countries! Sign this letter to alert people in the global North! Stop development agencies from promoting expansion of large-scale tree (...)
Agro-imperialism in the time of Covid-19

16 July 2020 - by GRAIN

Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, is known for scandal. It earned the nickname “babykiller” in the 1970s for causing infant illness and death in low-income communities by promoting bottle feeding of its infant formula and discouraging breast (...)
Millions forced to choose between hunger or Covid-19

26 May 2020 - by GRAIN

On the eve of May Day 2020, in full coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released some hair raising statistics. About 1.6 billion workers from the informal sector are in dire straits because of the lockdowns (...)
The Corona pandemic and the Struggle for our Peoples’ Resources and Food Sovereignty

22 May 2020 - by Omar Aziki

This is a transcript Omar Aziki’s presentation of the [North African Network for Food Sovereignty->https://siyada.org/en and was a part of our first webinar in Arabic. North African Network for Food sovereignty Today, it appears that the (...)
For food sovereignty in Morocco

24 November 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

The ATTAC/CADTM Morocco organization has recently published its study in Arabic on agricultural policy in Morocco and its multiple impacts on small farmers, on agricultural workers, on economy and on environment. The title is: ’For food (...)
Kenya: caught between debt and political indifference

1 May 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar

I reached Kenya on my way back from South Africa on April 13, 2019. This visit was a follow up of the earlier initiatives including a training on debt audit held at Nairobi, Kenya from July 29-30, 2018 in collaboration with the Kenyan Social (...)
Kenyan Peasants League to Hold First Peasants Agroecology Summer School

1 April 2019 - by Kenyan Peasants League

The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL) a member of La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Collective is set to hold a Peasants Agroecology Summer School at Mariwa Village in Migori County, Kenya on 15 to 17 April 2019. Hosted by Mariwa (...)
Tanzania: After Defaulting on Loans, Kilombero Plantation Ltd (KPL) Goes up for Sale

28 March 2019 - by Oakland Institute

Kilombero Plantation Ltd (KPL), the Tanzanian subsidiary of the Guernsey-registered Agrica Ltd., is up for sale after defaulting on loans from several financial institutions. KPL, heralded as the “best in class” player in the field of socially (...)
The Highest Bidder Takes It All: The World Bank’s Scheme to Privatize the Commons

21 February 2019 - by Oakland Institute

The Highest Bidder Takes It All: The World Bank’s Scheme to Privatize the Commons details how the Bank’s prescribes reforms, via a new land indicator in the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project, promotes large-scale land acquisitions (...)
Final statement of the first assembly of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty

7 January 2019 - by North African Network for Food Sovereignty

The first assembly of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty took place on 7-9 December 2018 in Agadir, Morocco. It gathered delegations from Egyptian, Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan trade unions, cooperatives and associations that are (...)
Democracy not for sale

23 November 2018 - by FIAN, TNI, Agroecopolis

This Report examines the impacts of austerity in Greece on the right to food. It concludes that the Greek State and the Eurozone Member States violated the Greek people’s right to food as a result of the austerity measures required by three (...)
“What lasted for 3000 years has been destroyed in 30”: the struggle for food sovereignty in Tunisia

29 October 2018 - by Max Ajl

Today (16 October 2018) is the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty, organised by La Via Campesina. In this article, Max Ajl reports from Tunisia on the struggles for food sovereignty there, and on what it means for the (...)