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Grassroots International and our partners produce a variety of publications to support our grantmaking for human rights and social change, promote education and advocacy efforts, and move more financial resources to promote global grassroots movements.

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Insights Fall 2018: The Migration Issue

This issue of Insights celebrates the grassroots movements and organizations engaged in claiming their rights to land and home, as well as the communities and movements working every day to tear down walls — both physical and political.
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Insights Fall 2017: Bolstering Human Rights and Recovery Efforts

In this issue of Insights, you will read stories of women on the frontlines of protecting people and the planet and how disaster relief and recovery efforts must come from the ground-up.
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Insights Spring 2017: Stepping Up Support for Climate Justice, Initial Grants, Seeds of Hope

Through the Climate Justice Initiative campaign (CJI), Grassroots International is raising money to invest in community-led programs that boost climate resilience and provide critical support to movements that are leading the charge for climate justice. Learn more about what the CJI supports!
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Insights Fall 2016: Creole Seeds, School Lunches and A Farmers Market

The MCP’s Creole Seeds Project seeks to rescue, reproduce and distribute heirloom (aka Creole) bean, corn and rice seeds that have been locally cultivated by generations of farmers for resiliency, adaptability, taste and appearance.
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Fact Sheets and Reports

Food Sovereignty Booklet

All people have the right to decide what they eat and to ensure that food in their community is healthy and accessible for everyone. This is the basic principle behind food sovereignty. If you want to support domestic food security...
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Insights Spring 2016: Women in West Africa say “We are the Solution!”

Insights Spring 2016: Women in West Africa say “We are the Solution!” A new colonization is afoot in Africa. It’s a violent usurpation of lands and livelihoods, being perpetrated under the guise of agricultural development….Yet the people of these nations...
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Insights Fall 2015: A Voice from Honduras Cries Out for a Better Future, Climate Justice

Last year, thousands gathered in New York City for the People’s Climate Justice Summit. Crowds swelled with energized, committed people, ready for action. One of those people was Miriam Miranda, whose words rang out over the murmuring masses: “What responsibility...
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Insights Spring 2015: Farmers Share Knowledge, Seeds, Experience for Sustainable Agriculture

“Peasant farmers don’t produce commodities, they produce food. Peasant farming is the farming of hope.” That’s what Grassroots International’s partner in Brazil, Valdir Misnerovicz recently told us during a learning exchange. Grassroots International has played a critical role in standing...
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Insights Fall 2014: Exposing the “Green Revolution” in West Africa

Farmers have worked the rugged land in Western Africa for generations, moving seasonally from field to forest for food and livelihood. While life was never easy, the community worked together, in harmony with their surroundings, to provide for themselves and...
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Fact Sheets and Reports

Troubled Waters: Fact Sheet on Water Grabs in Palestine

Land and water are at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories are portrayed as a region where water is scarce and where innovation has enabled Israelis to “turn the desert green,” the truth is far...
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Stolen Harvest: Occupation and Palestinian Olive Trees

Olives and olive oil are fundamental to Palestinian history, economy, subsistence, and culture. Olive trees symbolize Palestinian steadfastness and are deeply valued for their ability to thrive and send down deep roots in land where water is hard to come...
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Fact Sheets and Reports

Fishing for Justice: A Fact Sheet About Fishing in the Gaza Strip

Imagine fishers heading out to sea on a beautiful day, ready for a hard day of work to support their families. They might face challenges – a poor catch, storms, not enough buyers – but ordinarily their job is fairly straightforward. Now...
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Fact Sheets and Reports

A Preliminary Report on Seeds & Seed Practices Across the United States

For too many people and communities around the world, the dominant agricultural model is causing economic hardship, the destruction of biological diversity, and the exploitation of earth’s ecological commons. It is a model based on the commodification of life. We...
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Insights Winter 2014: Promoting Seeds Sovereignty; Fighting for the Right to Seeds

As people who care about the planet and about those most vulnerable to hunger, we need to ask some serious questions: What is the most effective, ecological and humane way to feed the world? How can farmers sustain themselves, their...
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Fact Sheets and Reports

Land Means Everything Here: The Israeli Occupation is a Land Grab

The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories not only takes Palestinian land for Israeli use. The settler-only structures and infrastructure also annex land and cut off Palestinians from each other, curtail their ability to move freely, and make it difficult –...
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Resource Rights: the Separation Wall, Elbit, & TIAA-CREF

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Answers Concerning the Separation Wall in Israel-Palestine, Elbit Systems, TIAA-CREF and Resource Rights Israel is currently building a Separation Wall in the West Bank that seizes land and water in Palestine and severely impacts food production....
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Fact Sheet: Elbit, TIAA-CREF and the Wall

“No company is more deeply embedded in Israel’s brutal architecture, occupation and segregation than Elbit.” – Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism The Wall, currently being built by Elbit Systems Ltd., separates Palestinian families...
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