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Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Gulf investors in, locals out: Pakistan’s corporate farming agenda

9 June 2025 - by GRAIN, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee

“Calling Cholistan a ‘barren wasteland’ to justify corporate land grabs is not just false—it erases our history,” [1] says Fazal e Rab Lund, a Saraiki Baloch leader from Cholistan in Punjab, Pakistan, with anguish about his homeland. Known (…)
Debt cancellations and peasant mobilizations in Europe from Antiquity to the 20^th Century

12 May 2025 - by Eric Toussaint

2025 marks the 500th anniversary of the huge peasants’ uprising that shook the whole Germanic area from Alsace to Austria, including the majority of principalities in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland. In 1524-1525 at least 300,000 peasants (…)
Can pension systems be part of the fight for food sovereignty?

2 May 2025 - by GRAIN

On 31 March 2025, workers from all sectors in Belgium held a general strike that shut down much of the country. [1] Picket lines were formed in work places like petrochemical companies, ports, airports, supermarkets, hospitals and potato (…)
Voices of Pastoralist Women: Leadership and Resilience in the Month of Working Women’s Struggle

25 April 2025 - by Collective

Read excerpts of pastoralist women speeches from a webinar held on March 2025 in preparation to the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum As part of the month of Working Women’s Struggle, the voices of pastoralist women resonate strongly from different (…)
Sri Lanka

Budget 2025: Adjusting and adapting inside IMF prison

4 February 2025 - by Amali Wedagedara

The Budget 2025 illustrates the drudgery of making ends meet inside a debtors’ prison. The Appropriation Bill for Budget 2025 reveals the fiscal squeeze and constraints imposed by the IMF program and the struggle to set the economy on a (…)
Palestine: The food, land, and water crisis in the context of the Zionist extermination of the Palestinian people in Gaza

3 December 2024 - by Moayyad Ahmad

The goal of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which began in 1948, was not only to replace the population with colonists brought from different parts of the world; it was an exhaustive settler colonialism, with the Israelis controlling the (…)
Unprecedented since 2019: over 200 people joined the CADTM Autumn Meetings

8 October 2024 - by CADTM Belgique, Maxime Perriot

From October 4–6, 2024, CADTM Europe organized its autumn meetings. Over 200 people took part. They included activists from India, Mali, Spain, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, Mexico, Brazil, Netherlands, France, Burkina Fasso, Togo and the Democratic (…)
Peasants and Politics in Neoliberal India: The 2020-21 Peasant Movement

19 August 2024 - by Paramjit Singh

The persistence of peasantry in the Global South and imperialism’s necessity to integrate it into its accumulation network has given birth to a new agrarian question. This question centers around policies and efforts employed by imperialist (…)
Free trade frenzy: the hidden costs of South Asia’s economic gamble

14 June 2024 - by GRAIN

As debt pressures rise, South Asia’s economic strategies are increasingly revolving around FTAs. The frenzy, however, is not only reshaping the region’s trade dynamics, but also a wide array of national legal frameworks, from labour rights to (…)
The 6^th International Eco-socialist Meeting and the 1^st Latin American and Caribbean Eco-socialist Meeting concluded successfully

7 June 2024 - by Maria Elena Saludas

Over three days (9-11 May), the city of Buenos Aires received over 250 activists from 30 nations. After more than a year of planning, we were able to assemble in the auditorium of the ATE (Association of State Workers) to discuss and attempt to (…)
Whipping up disaster: how Brazil became a lab for financial agro-investments

27 May 2024 - by GRAIN

“Agro is pop, agro is tech, agro is everything” states a popular slogan in adverts broadcast on Brazil’s largest TV channel since 2016. Financed by agribusiness, these advertisements portray a virtuous cycle, showcasing images of contented rural (…)
Farmers’ mobilizations back on track

13 April 2024 - by Sushovan Dhar

After the major mobilizations of 2020-2021, which led to victories in terms of demands, the government had succeeded in stabilizing the situation. On the eve of parliamentary elections, farmers are mobilizing again. Thousands of farmers (…)
Oil palm in Latin America: monoculture and violence

11 April 2024 - by GRAIN

The global oil palm craze Oil palm plantations are rapidly gaining ground in Latin America, driving communities from their lands and causing deforestation, violence, and poverty. Global production of palm oil has increased by almost 600% (…)
The Voices of Palestinian Women

30 March 2024 - by Capire, Helena Zelic, Tica Moreno

On Palestinian Land Day, we publish denunciations by Palestinian women and echo their struggles for sovereignty and self-determination Listening to the voices of Palestinian women is fundamental to understand the historical and current forms (…)
Food inflation: The math doesn’t add up without factoring in corporate power

22 March 2024 - by GRAIN

Large farmers’ protests broke out in at least 65 countries over the past year. From India to Kenya through Colombia and France, desperation has hit a breaking point. Farmers warn that without better prices and more protection, their future is at (…)
Ten takeaways: The palm oil scheme leaving Indonesian villagers submerged in debt

23 February 2024 - by The Gecko Project

As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia over the past two decades, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. Much of what was targeted belonged to, or was used by, indigenous and other rural communities. Perhaps (…)
A new wave of land grabs strikes Tanzania

10 February 2024 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN

Tanzania was one of the most heavily targeted countries of a huge scramble for farmland around the world that followed the food and financial crises of 2008 and that was supposed to help solve global food insecurity. The large farm projects, (…)
Peasant mobilisations in Europe

6 February 2024 - by CETIM

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, January 1st, 2024 – Neoliberal elites want rural populations to pay for the crisis and the “energy transition”. CETIM expresses its solidarity with the mobilisations of peasant organisations over the past weeks in (…)
WORLD BANK GROUP INSTITUTION AGREES TO SETTLE CASE ALLEGING IT ABETTED MURDER

23 January 2024 - by EarthRights International

The International Finance Corporation’s settlement agreement is the first time any international financial institution has agreed to pay to end a lawsuit brought by an injured community. WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2023–A World Bank Group (…)
The Palestinian people have a right to their lives, land and sovereignty

30 October 2023 - by GRAIN

The CADTM shares GRAIN’s point of view and in-depth analysis, in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Israel’s retaliation for the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas has rapidly evolved into another phase of what can only be considered a (…)
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, (…)