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.
Human Right to Food
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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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La Via Campesina Issues Call Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements
Below is a statement from our global partner, La Via Campesina. La Via Campesina (LVC) is an international movement comprised of more than 200 million small farmers and producers across 70-plus countries. LVC defends peasant agriculture for food sovereignty as...
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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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Grassroots Movements Celebrate Building Solutions to Food and Climate Crises
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.
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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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France Declares New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Failed in Burkina Faso
France declared New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa a failure in Burkina Faso and announced it would withdraw from the Alliance.
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On ‘Food Sovereignty Day’ La Via Campesina Launches Publication on Food System
La Via Campesina officially launches its new publication “Struggles of La Vía Campesina for Agrarian Reform and the Defense of life, Land and Territories” that argues for a massive change in the current agro-food system.
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Sharing Food, Knowledge and Buen Vivir
We went to Mexico to participate in an international learning exchange hosted by Grassroots’ allies Thousand Currents and their partner in Chiapas, the Civic Association for Economic and Social Development of Indigenous Mexicans (DESMI). The learning exchange brought together 120 small farmers and Indigenous Peoples from 11 different countries to share their knowledge and strategies towards advancing food sovereignty and buen vivir.
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Farm, Food and Rural Advocates Ask House Agricultural Committee for a Fair Farm Bill
Grassroots International, along with our allies in the fight for a fair and just food system, have signed a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, led by Chair Conoway (R-TX). We are asking them to reconsider the current state of our food system and to take steps to address its problems, rather than write policies that condone them.
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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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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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Brazil: Power in the Streets, Targeted Violence in the Countryside
The Brazilian political crisis and ensuing violence have intensified rapidly since the institutional coup of August 31, 2016. At Grassroots, we are receiving regular reports from our partners in Brazil listing incidents of attacks, arrests and even assassinations of land rights activists in a wave of right-wing aggression
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Climate Justice Forum & Reception Bring Together Grassroots Groups, Leaders and Supporters at the Boston Public Library
On May 10, hundreds of community members, climate justice supporters, and grassroots organizations gathered with Grassroots International and the Boston Public Library to share stories and hear words of wisdom from international Climate Justice leaders.
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VIDEO: Settlements Dumping Toxic Waste in the Jordan Valley
MA’AN Development Center details in their latest video (below) how an Israeli company is dumping toxic waste from Israeli settlements into Jordan Valley and turning it into compost which it then sells to unsuspecting Palestinian farmers. The toxic compost damages crops and poisons the soil.
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For the Love of the Land: Building Food Sovereignty in Palestine
We are meeting with a longtime Grassroots International partner organization, the Union of Agricultural Workers Committee (UAWC). UAWC focuses on building sovereignty for men, women and youth, farmers and the poor.
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Learning Without Borders, With Struggle and Hope: Our Time with MCP
In September 2016 eleven of our partners, grantees and allies flew to Goiás, Brazil to participate in a learning exchange of peasant movements that Grassroots International organized along with our friends at IDEX/Thousand Currents.
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Concerned About Famine, Grassroots International and Haitian Groups Call for Greater Hurricane Relief Via Haitian Organizations
Grassroots International and other Haitian groups are urging the international donor community to direct hurricane relief through Haitian-led organizations and networks.
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2016 Food Sovereignty Prize Recipients Call Big Ag’s Bluff, Challenge Corporate Food System
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) named the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF) as the honorees for the eighth annual Food Sovereignty Prize.