This World Food Day, we uplift the work of social movements to end hunger and cool the planet through agroecology and food sovereignty. We commit to standing with them for the long haul and invite other funders to join us.
Our partner La Via Campesina shares the history and continued importance of Food Sovereignty for the 25th anniversary of the concept's founding.
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.
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.
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.
COVID-19 has crippled the world. But a moment of crisis like this reveals that we are all interrelated as humans, writes our partner La Via Campesina.
This article analyses how the struggle for the rights of LGBTTIQ persons is largely silenced in the broader human rights movement, and in the struggle for food sovereignty and the human right to adequate food and nutrition.
The following statement comes from our partner, Via Campesina, speaking out against the deliberate fires set in the Amazon rain forest.
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...
Investment in a multiplicity of community-led climate solutions would mean durable and scalable progress on feeding the planet, stopping the fossil fuel industry and deforestation, and advancing public health.
Around the world, these women are taking the patriarchy to task, while healing the environment – all the time building the movement for grassroots feminism. Today, International Women’s Day, is a time for protest, organizing, and celebration.
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
Grassroots International volunteer Emma George writes about new steps forward for an international Declaration of Peasants and Rural Workers Rights. After almost two decades of negotiations, peasants and other rural workers are finally about to receive formal recognition of their struggles — and their basic human rights.
Elizabeth Mpofu is a member of the International Coordination Committee (ICC) and serves as the General Coordinator of La Via Campesina (LVC), a Grassroots International global partner. She recently spoke with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), where she also serves on the executive board.
This 17th April, on the occasion of the International Day of Peasant´s Struggle, the member organisations and allies of La Via Campesina are organizing scores of unified and decentralized actions in a global scale, for the right to land and water, against the Free Trade Agreement and against the criminalization of the social struggle.
Environmental changes in the Dry Corridor – Corredor Seco – and Atlantic Coast have driven migration in Honduras, one of the countries most affected by climate change. Here, women have gathered together in old and new collectives, as they struggle to create economic opportunities and grow crops against increasing weather variability.
November 29th is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. These days, the global Palestinian solidarity movement has deepened and grown with powerful expressions of joint struggle with other movements around the world.
Both La Via Campesina and the World March of Women have been pioneers in highlighting the myriad ways women are oppressed in the private and public sphere – which is one of the many reasons Grassroots International is honored to partner with both of these powerful global movements.
