Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
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“The New Green Revolution”
5 September 2016 - by Rémi Vilain
“Addressing extreme poverty and hunger around the world.” These are two goals that have not ceased to appear on “good-practicing and well-intentioned” international institutions’ agendas for several decades. If these objectives are really on the (...) -
Monsanto in retreat: movement from the grassroots
12 August 2016 - by Silvia Ribeiro
Since August 1st, the news is spreading that Monsanto had to abandon the construction of one of the biggest factories in the world for producing transgenic seed that was to be installed in Córdoba, Argentina, in the municipality of Malvinas (...) -
Kerkennah: on the frontline of resistance to the fossil fuel industry in Tunisia
26 July 2016 - by Hamza Hamouchene
The effects of climate change and neoliberalism converge in Kerkennah in the worst possible way – but the islands are fighting back. Kerkennah is a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès, around 20km away from (...) -
Corporate capture of seeds in Africa
17 May 2016 - by Jana M. Grieb
Organic farmers from Machakos, Kenya, say that fertiliser and seed companies even deploy their own extension officers and agro-dealers in the villages, who aggressively advertise the use of their products. When their promises prove false, nobody (...) -
“Our stomachs will make themselves heard”: What Sankara can teach us about food justice today
10 May 2016 - by Amber Murrey
When it comes to food justice, environmentalism and ecological practices, Thomas Sankara was way ahead of his time. Thomas Sankara helped Burkina Faso become self-sufficient before in basic foodstuffs in just a few years before he was (...) -
Corporate vision of the future of food promoted at the UN
19 February 2016 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN, ETC
Corporate vision of the future of food promoted at the UN: More than 100 civil society organizations raise alarm about FAO biotechnology meeting (Rome, Monday 15 February, 2016) Just when the biotech companies that make transgenic seeds are (...) -
Children Suffer as World Bank’s Borrowers Upend Their Lives
9 February 2016 - by Michael Hudson, Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction. KEY FINDINGS - Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million (...) -
Should Plantation workers be working at poverty level wages?
18 January 2016 - by Vijaya Kumar
Special correspondents and bigwigs in the planation industry keep hammering at us that plantation workers in Sri Lankan are vastly overpaid, any increases in pay will be spent on liquor, no increase in pay is possible unless tied to productivity (...) -
The Blood of the Earth : Agriculture, Land Rights, and Haitian History
15 January 2016 - by Beverley Bell, Jean-Pierre Ricot
Yesterday, January 12, on the sixth anniversary of the 7.0 earthquake, Haitians mourned the countless lives lost. Among the many aftershocks they face is disaster capitalism, in which the Haitian elite and foreign corporations - backed by the US (...) -
No to WTO and Free Trade Agreements
WTO favours developed countries, not the peasants and poor people
24 December 2015 - by La Via Campesina
Under capitalism production is not for consumption but for trade to make profits. Countries particularly the developing ones are being forced to open their borders and markets to cheap and low quality agricultural commodities from countries such (...) -
Doing Business 2016’s reformed indicator will favour land-grabbing
30 October 2015 - by Tiago Stichelmans
the World Bank makes it easier for foreign investors, at the potential cost of local farmers -
Together we can cool the planet!
18 October 2015 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN
For many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN have been telling the world about how the agroindustrial food system causes half of all greenhouse gas emissions. But the world’s governments are refusing to face these problems head on, and the Paris (...) -
“We Are La Via Campesina”
27 August 2015 - by La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, is happy to release a new Video. In this video, men and women, leaders of La Via Campesina member organizations in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe share their struggles and fight for (...) -
Bangladesh: The peasant associations BKF-BKS in the struggle against the effects of climate change and for solidarity
5 August 2015 - by Pierre Rousset, Badrul Alam
Badrul Alam, a representative of the BKF-BKS movement in Bangladesh, was in France in June 2015 and was interviewed by Pierre Rousset. Pierre Rousset – You came to France at the invitation of the Confederation paysanne to participate in the (...) -
Power and impunity of transnational corporations stifles people’s voices
4 August 2015 - by La Via Campesina
The power and impunity of the transnationals are stifling the voices of the world’s peoples. (Harare, 9th of July 2015) La Via Campesina strongly decries the fact that international policies and legislative processes which supposedly are (...) -
Despair and defiance
9 June 2015 - by Sushovan Dhar
India’s tea sector is driven in large part by Assam and West Bengal, which account for over 70 percent of the country’s tea production. There are at least one million tea workers employed on more than 1000 tea gardens in these two eastern states. (...) -
It is our responsibility as world citizens to relieve the FAO’s dreadful conflict
2 June 2015 - by Thomas Pogge
Each year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a State of Food Insecurity (SOFI) report. The 2015 report has just come out. In an accompanying letter, the FAO’s Coordinator for Economic and Social Development, Jomo Kwame (...) -
The World Bank’s Long War on Peasants
14 May 2015 - by Tanya Kerssen, Eric Holt-Giménez
It is difficult to overstate the degree to which the IMF and World Bank’s neoliberal economic policies contribute to extreme vulnerability for farmers and peasants. “The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are (...) -
Debt and industrial agriculture: a sacred union
27 October 2014 - by Giulia Simula, Anouk Renaud
Debt and industrial agriculture are deeply interrelated. To understand this connection we need to go back to the vicious cycle of debt. Firstly, by looking at how conditionality attached to International Financial Institutions (IFIs) loans has (...) -
The fool’s bargain of West African bananas’ producers who have demanded to sign the West Africa-EU EPA
25 July 2014 - by Jacques Berthelot
We know that the main reason for the acceptance by the West Africa’s Heads of State to sign the regional EPA with the EU on July 10, 2014 in Accra comes from the pressures of Ivory Coast, and secondarily of Ghana, who risked losing duty free (...) -
Banks speculate on raw materials and food
7 March 2014 - by Eric Toussaint
Banks, through their trading activities, have become the principal speculators on the Over the Counter (OTC) markets and ultimately on the futures markets for raw materials and agricultural produce, as they dispose of far greater financial (...) -
GMOs, water grab and ice cream for the masses - the EBRD gets involved with Nestlé Egypt
14 February 2014 - by Sophie Delaval
The EBRD’s board of directors yesterday approved a USD 20 million loan for the expansion of Nestlé Egypt food production company. Leaving aside the question whether Nestlé – one of the world’s largest companies from one of the world’s richest (...) -
The WTO pushes through bad deal in the final hours; Developed countries and TNCs are the big winners
23 December 2013 - by La Via Campesina, Social Movements for an Alternative Asia (SMAA), Gerak Lawan
Social Movements for an Alternative Asia (SMAA), Gerak Lawan and La Via Campesina. The 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) pushed through a Bali Package in the final hours, extending the Conference to December 7, (...) -
Japan
Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA Call for an Immediate Suspension and Fundamental Review
10 November 2013 - by Attac Japan, Others
Mr. Fumio Kishida, Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Mr. Akihiko Tanaka, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA Call for an Immediate Suspension and Fundamental (...) -
Land for those who work it
16 March 2013 - by Esther Vivas
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 (...)
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