Did Monsanto Write Malawi’s Seed Policy?
Malawi farmers support themselves by saving seeds for their neighbors. But bureaucrats and Monsanto are banning these seeds from markets, reports Tim Wise.
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Haiti: Between a New Hurricane Season and the Last
This year forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are predicting an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with “ a 70 percent likelihood of 11 to 17 named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, including 2 to 4 major hurricanes. An average season produces 12 named storms of which six become hurricanes, including three major hurricanes.”
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Honduran Activists Speak at New York City Event
For Miranda and Zúñiga, we can reconnect and advance the legitimacy of human rights by identifying the ‘monster’ created by the collaboration of power-holders such as the military, corporations, governments, and organized crime entities (especially those involved in perpetuating the drug war). They said we must call these threats by name, and work together across issues, movements, and spaces.
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Global Peasant Movement Assesses & Responds to Heated Political Moment
In VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina, built on decades of organizing, offered insight and response to contemporary resource grabs, authoritarian power grabs, violence against women, and the climate and migration crises. By going home to work the land, peasants know they are engaging in one of the most political acts of all: agriculture.
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Voices from the Via: Attendees from International Conference Share Thoughts
Grassroots International was honored to be in attendance at the VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina and gathered some of our partners' perspectives and thoughts about the conference and their work in the below photo blog.
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Marina dos Santos Brings Message from the MST to Via Campesina Conference
A version of this piece originally appeared on the Landless Workers Movement’s website. English translation was done by Grassroots International. Peasants from more than 70 countries will gather in Derio, in the Basque Country, between July 16 and 24, where the...
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VIIth International Conference, La Via Campesina: Euskal Herria Declaration
The Euskal Herria Declaration, created by delegates of La Via Campesina at the VIIth International Conference, outlines three points of organizing of the global peasant movement.
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Peasants From Over 70 Countries Meet to Build Food Sovereignty
Over 450 peasant movement representatives from all over the world will gather at the VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina to continue the struggle against capitalism and to propose concrete ways to build an alternative world based on dignity and Food Sovereignty.
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Organizations and Movements Defend Brazilian Forests from Carbon Offsets
More than 50 Brazilian organizations and social movements working on issues related to the environment, human rights, workers' rights, indigenous peoples and traditional peoples and communities have filed a "Letter in defense of the historic position of Brazil on forest offsets " with the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is in reaction to an attempt to enable the use of forests in offsets, a measure seen as a false solution to the challenge of climate change.
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New Threats Against Human Rights Defenders Require New Kinds of Protection
Human rights organizations and funders in Latin America need to rethink how they protect defenders in light of increasing threats from non-state actors and impunity encouraged by the state.
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Gaza Unlivable, Says UN and Our Own Eyes
While our Palestinian partners acknowledge that UN member states are failing Gaza, and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories, they believe people-to-people engagement and solidarity can change the status quo. Grassroots International remains committed to supporting Palestinian human rights and livelihoods, supporting our partners there and engaging in advocacy in the US.
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The Future of Farmland (Part 2): Grabbing the Land Back
Democratic, cooperative, and community-controlled models are the future for farmland ownership.
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Movement Building at the Heart of Haitian Peasants’ Response to Climate Change
The Peasant Movement of Papaye is leading the way towards a new Haiti centered on food sovereignty and climate justice.
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The Future of Farmland (Part 1): The New Land Grab
If you don’t follow investment trends, you may not know that one of the hottest investment opportunities in recent years is land, specifically farmland.
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Grassroots is Growing!
We welcome three new staff babies to the Grassroots International family.
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Somber Commemorations in Gaza Fuel Movement Building
In Palestine, the 50-year anniversary of Israeli occupation and decade of near-total blockade in Gaza is a time of looking back on difficult historical moments in which rights enjoyed in most parts of the world vanished. At the same time, it is an opportunity to look forward to a future in which they will be restored and advanced. Even though states and political parties have continually neglected such a political project, social justice movements inside and outside of Palestine are acting as its guardians.
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VIDEO: Berta Cáceres Act Needs to Be Passed
Video about why the US Congress must pass the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (H.R. 1299)
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The Bank Trap: A Statement from COPINH on the Agua Zarca Dam Investors
Below is a statement from COPINH, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, our grantee and ally, concerning the alleged exit of hydroelectric investors in Honduras.
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Women Farmers in West Africa Challenge Agribusiness, Promote Community Control
Grassroots International is proud to work with WAS to expose the dangers of the "green revolution" and promote agroecology as a more ecologically and socially sound approach for West African farmers.
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Black Communities in the US Reclaiming Land and Organizing for Ecological Justice
We celebrate the many Black communities across the country who organize on this date and every day of the year towards a vision of racial and ecological justice. A few such examples include Alternatives for Community and Environment, Cooperation Jackson, the Black Land and Liberation Initiative, and the Movement for Black Lives.