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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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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Black August: Roots, Resistance and Global Solidarity
Black August is a much needed practice to uplift our collective Black humanity. This month, Grassroots International has been deepening our understanding of the revolutionary roots of Black August, as they apply to our work and that of our partners and allies across the globe.
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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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Sowing a Feminist Future
March is a time in which we focus on women as the beating heart of social change. We joined allies and partners in launching the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School.
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2020 in Review: Response, Recovery and Transformation
Through the immeasurable challenges of 2020, our partners persisted and advanced long-term transformative solutions. With your help, Grassroots International increased our support to unprecedented levels required to meet the challenges of these extraordinary times.
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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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A Vision for a Feminist Peace
A groundbreaking report from our allies lays out an urgently-needed agenda for US foreign policy based on principles of collective care, reparations, and accountability.
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Supporting Community Solutions During Pandemic
We have been awestruck by the generosity of our community of donor-activists and by the resilience of our partners. Together, we are picking up the slack where governments and policies have failed during this pandemic.
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Prevent Agribusiness’s Pandemics with Food Sovereignty
April 17th is the International Day of Food sovereignty matters for not only farmers, but for preventing pandemics. Corporate agriculture for profit is putting our health and planet at risk.
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Confront the Pandemic with a Feminist Foreign Policy
Before the COVID-19 pandemic had hit the U.S., 23 women and gender nonconforming organizers from across the United States laid out feminist, antiwar solutions to the crisis.
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Coronavirus: how to care for the Earth and each other
The coronavirus exposes our dysfunctional leadership and sparking new ways of caring for each other and the planet, writes CLIMA Fund director Lindley Mease.