Prize Highlights Solutions to Worsening Hunger Crisis
With recent spikes in food, fuel, and fertilizer prices raising alarms of intensifying hunger globally, food and farm advocates are calling for lasting solutions to a food system in crisis.
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Relief, Recovery or Change?
As Giovanni Roberto from Comedores Sociales writes, the contrast between the official government response to Hurricane Fiona and social movements’ responses could not be more clear. Just as clear is the importance of providing resources to real long-term solutions for Puerto Rico.
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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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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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A New Year Brings a New Settlement for Landless Families
With the new year comes a new victory from our Brazilian partner the Landless Workers Movement (MST). After three years of occupation on public land, rural families have won a recognized settlement near São Cristóvão do Sul.
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Small-scale Agriculture Can Feed Our Countries
As African agriculture faces big challenges, the president of Network of Farmers' Organizations and Agricultural Producers in West Africa (ROPPA) is convinced that the Covid-19 crisis is a window of opportunity.
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Fighting Bill Gates for the Future of Food
African farmers are fighting for the future of food against the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It's a battle of small farmers vs. corporate agriculture, write Million Belay and Timothy A. Wise.
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What is Organic Farming If Not Sustainable?
What is organic farming? More people are avoiding pesticides and GMOs, but that doesn't mean organic foods are always sustainable for the Earth or farmers. Our partners and allies, like in southern Africa, are teaching a different model: agroecology.
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Contemporary Challenges for the Working Class & Peasantry in Brazil
João Pedro Stedile outlines the issues leading up to the Brazilian coup, life under Bolsonaro's rule, and a vision for a new agrarian program in Brazil.
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2018 in Review: Growth of Resistance, Impact
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
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Announcing the 2018 Food Sovereignty Prize Honorees
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is delighted to announce Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico are the 2018 Food Sovereignty Prize recipients.
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‘This Is Life or Death for Us’: Mexico’s Farm Movement Rejects New NAFTA Agreement
Leaders of Mexico’s farm movement strongly condemned the new trade agreement announced between the United States and Mexico, calling on the new president they supported in recent elections to get involved and slow the race to the new agreement.
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Farmers Need Fair Prices, Not NAFTA-Lite and Meager Tariff Aid
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) condemns the Trump Administration's recent trade and agricultural policies. These measures will not return prosperity to rural America.
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Interview with Ramata Ouedraogo, Farmer with We Are the Solution
Interview with Ramata Ouedraogo, a farmer with Grassroots International partner We Are the Solution.
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Statement from Mexican Social Movement on Secretary of Agriculture Nominee
Statement about Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s nominee for Secretary of Agriculture from The Network in Defense of the Native Corn of Oaxaca, an alliance that includes two of Grassroots International's partners the Mixe Peoples' Services and the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca.
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US Food Sovereignty Alliance IV National Assembly
On October 12 – 15, 2018, grassroots organizations, activists, faith-based community, scholars, union members, farmers and fisherfolk, and other food chain workers from around the US and the world will converge on Bellingham, WA, for the IV National Assembly of...
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US Food Sovereignty Alliance Organizing Its IV National Assembly
On October 12 – 15, 2018, grassroots organizations, activists, faith-based community, scholars, union members, farmers and fisherfolk, and other food chain workers from around the US and the world will converge on Bellingham, WA, for the IV National Assembly of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA).
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Puerto Rico Still Needs Us: A Benefit Concert
An afternoon of powerful original music and Latin classics to benefit communities affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
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Fishery Defenders Celebrate NOAA’s Charges Against “Codfather”
The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance celebrated recent steps forward to protect New England ecosystems and the fishermen that rely on them. These victories are stitches in the nets that can protect our fisheries and make sure whales like the Codfather face the justice they deserve.
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Photo Blog: Agroecology Practices and Product Fair
A photo blog of the Agroecology Practices and Product Fair of the “Buen Vivir with Respect” international learning exchange in Chiapas, Mexico.