Press releases from Grassroots International, our partners and our allies.
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.
Yesterday, Guatemalan National Civil Police and the Guatemalan army attempted to evict 93 Maya Q'eqchí families. Here we are sharing a statement from our partner the Comité de Unidad Campesina (Peasant Unity Committee, CUC).
Over the past days, we've been in direct contact with our partners on the ground in Palestine. They have conveyed devastation, trauma, steadfastness and hope in solidarity.
The National Family Farm Coalition's Disparity to Parity campaign is a call for a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system.
In the recent statement below, Haitian small farmer and human rights organizations — including Grassroots International partners — denounce the ongoing violent land grabs in north and northeastern Haiti.
For this World Food Day, we celebrate the 2020 Food Sovereignty Prize winners the Somali Bantu Community Association and All Nepal Peasants Federation.
We call for justice for George Floyd and countless others. We stand in solidarity with the struggle to defend Black lives in the US and around the world.
Grassroots International joined dozens of other civil society groups to demand the United States lift sanctions against other countries amid the pandemic.
A new report released during the Environmental Grantmakers Association’s Winter Briefing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, urges U.S. philanthropy to invest in Puerto Rico’s social movements as the best solution to the archipelago’s climate and humanitarian crisis. Many of the...
Berta Cáceres and others were murdered for their activism defending the Lenca people and their land in Honduras. A trial recently sentenced some of her killers, but for her organization COPINH, the struggle for justice must continue.
The Patriotic Forum gathered at the Lakay Center in Papaye to discuss the major problems facing Haiti and charted a vision for future organizing.
We join our allies in signing-on to this powerful statement around the wave of white supremacist attacks from El Paso to Mississippi. We also lift up the struggles facing our BEAI Fund grantee the Border Agricultural Workers Project as they mourn the loss of loved ones.
The Movement Affected by Dams (MAB) gained a new ally in the Attorney General in the struggle for justice for the families affected by the Brumadinho dam collapse disaster.
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) honored Black Mesa Water Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at the tenth annual Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony on Lummi and Nooksack land in Coast Salish Territory, in the city now called Bellingham, Washington.
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.
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.
The National Family Farm Coalition, a Grassroots International partner organization, celebrates the defeat of the regressive farm bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. Last fall, Grassroots signed onto the NFFC's letter to Congress described in the press release linked here.
In a recent press release the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) decries the corporate seed grab taking place across the continent.
