Advancing Together Toward Food Sovereignty in 2022
Amidst intersecting crises, movements are putting the principles of food sovereignty into practice on the ground, and they are launching a process toward a major global convergence.
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In 2022, Solidarity Remains Our Way Forward
For January 2022, Grassroots is looking at the year ahead, the social conditions impacting our and our partners’ work, and the stories of resistance and solution-building we’ll be sharing with our supporters.
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The Truth is Revolutionary: New Colonialisms, Continuing Resistance
In Elegua’s last article, they wrote about the living legacy of Haiti’s struggle for independence and freedom. For Part Two, Elegua looks at Haiti’s ongoing struggle against imperialism.
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2021 in Review and Resistance
While recognizing that with every victory comes a new front of struggle in collective efforts to transform the world, we cap off 2021 with twelve movement successes involving our partners and allies whom we have been honored to accompany.
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Climate Solutions from Soil to Seed
This World Food Day, we uplift the work of social movements to end hunger and cool the planet through agroecology and food sovereignty. We commit to standing with them for the long haul and invite other funders to join us.
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Food Sovereignty, a Manifesto for the Future of Our Planet
Our partner La Via Campesina shares the history and continued importance of Food Sovereignty for the 25th anniversary of the concept's founding.
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On Heels of Failed UN Food Systems Summit, Food Sovereignty Prize Highlights Transformative Solutions
On September 23, social movements and scientists across the world boycotted the United Nations Food Systems Summit for undermining effective efforts to address hunger. These same groups are raising up the Food Sovereignty Prize, which will be awarded this October 16, as championing real solutions to the mounting global hunger crisis.
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25 Years of Food Sovereignty: Accompanying the Struggle
25 years ago, united by the conviction “not about us without us,” peasant farmers from around the globe converged on the World Food Summit uninvited. In the years since, food sovereignty and the movements around it have grown in visibility, power and impact.
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Reflections on Food Sovereignty and Black Liberation
A rich conversation about land rights and land sovereignty for Black liberation sparked up some of the following reflections.
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Celebrate 25 Years of Food Sovereignty!
Sustaining the Struggle: Celebrate 25 Years of Food Sovereignty! «We, the Via Campesina, reject the economic and political conditions which destroy our livelihoods, our communities, our cultures and our natural environment.» — 1996 Via Campesina Declaration «Food Sovereignty: A Future...
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Food Sovereignty Prize Winners Announced
Now in its 13th year, the Food Sovereignty Prize is given annually on or around World Food Day to grassroots organizations advancing food sovereignty. It stands in contrast to the World Food Prize, which perpetuates the myth that we can produce our way out of hunger.
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Movements Expose Corporate Power, Not People Power, Behind the UN Food Systems Summit
Despite being touted as a “people’s summit,” the UN Food Systems Summit is the latest attempt at the corporate takeover of the world’s food systems.
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Celebrate 25 Years of Food Sovereignty!
Sustaining the Struggle: Celebrate 25 Years of Food Sovereignty! «We, the Via Campesina, reject the economic and political conditions which destroy our livelihoods, our communities, our cultures and our natural environment.» — 1996 Via Campesina Declaration «Food Sovereignty: A Future...
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Eldorado do Carajás, 25 Years of Impunity: Interview with Ayala Ferreira
In commemoration of International Day of Peasant Struggle, we share this piece by Fernanda Alcântara published by the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil. Eldorado do Carajás, 25 Years of Impunity: Interview with Ayala Ferreira The 17th of April 1996...
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International Day of Peasant Struggle: Looking Back to Build Forward
On this April 17th, International Day of Peasant Struggle, Grassroots International joins La Vía Campesina and other movement partners and allies across the globe in commemorating two interlinked anniversaries of great importance to our movements. First, it has been 25...
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Communicating Food Sovereignty: 10 Years of the Nyéléni Newsletter
In 2007, social movements from across the globe converged in Mali for the Nyéléni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty. In the years since, the Nyéléni Newsletter has helped to continue the momentum for food sovereignty.
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Food as Control, Food as Resistance
How do Indigenous and Black struggles around food sovereignty in the US intersect with those in Palestine, in terms of both the violence and trauma out of which they emerged and the forms of resistance they have generated?
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World Food Day: Saluting Food Sovereignty Prize Awardees
For this World Food Day, we celebrate the 2020 Food Sovereignty Prize winners the Somali Bantu Community Association and All Nepal Peasants Federation.