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What future for seeds under the African Free Trade Area?

23 July 2023 - by GRAIN, Mohamed Coulibaly

The African Union is putting the finishing touches to the draft protocol on intellectual property rights to the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Once ratified, this text will form an integral part of the (...)
European Commission proposal on new GMOs favours biopiracy over rights of farmers and citizens

6 July 2023 - by La Via Campesina

On July 5, the European Commission presented its proposal to create a new regulatory framework for certain GMOs. This proposal gives centre stage to biopiracy and the privatization of all seeds by patent-holding companies, to the detriment of (...)
Why Benin should not Join UPOV

21 June 2023 - by Collective, ATTAC/CADTM Morocco, CADTM Afrique

Social movements call on Benin to reconsider membership in UPOV, urging protection of local seed systems and food sovereignty [Cotonou, Benin] – On June 1, 2023, a coalition of diverse organizations, including farmers’ organizations, women’s (...)
The Avocados of Wrath

8 May 2023 - by GRAIN

“This little orchard will be part of a great holding next year, for the debt will have choked the owner. This vineyard will belong to the bank. Only the great owners can survive, for they own the canneries too... Men who have created new fruits (...)
How to combat the growing carbon inequality?

21 February 2023 - by Sushovan Dhar

Global attention has been drawn to the rising inequality that has recently been observed in almost all the nations. Growing inequality is a result of a number of reasons, including globalisation, technological advancement, labour market changes, (...)
South Asia Report : Plight of tea plantation workers and smallholder famers

12 December 2022 - by Sushovan Dhar, SAAPE, Sudhir Shrestha, Sivagnanam Prabaharan

Four countries in South Asia – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh – are among the top tea producers in the world and have strong growth prospects. The tea sector has provided direct and indirect employment to millions of workers and farmers (...)
International food crisis and proposals to overcome it

5 September 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Omar Aziki

Contrary to a notion that spread in 2022, the global food crisis started before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the rise in the cereal prices due to speculation. On a global scale, from 2014 to 2021, the number of people affected by serious (...)
Press Release

2022: Let us end the food crisis

5 September 2022 - by CADTM International

Many countries and their populations currently face a critical situation because of the rising prices of food or the impossibility of getting access to food in sufficient quantity. As the main cause is not the war in Ukraine, as repeated by (...)
Food, famine and war

4 June 2022 - by Michael Roberts

If anything proves that famine and food insecurity are man-made rather than due to vagaries of nature and the weather, it is the current food crisis that is putting millions globally close to starvation. The Russia-Ukraine war has highlighted (...)
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 Collective

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 (...)