Planting Seeds by Building Youth Leadership
For July, we are looking at the ways youth continue to play central roles in communities and social struggles — both through their own independent organizations and in youth sections of broader movements.
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Mexico’s New Movement Institute for Indigenous and Peasant Youth
Grassroots International is honored to be a supporter of IALA Mexico and to be in long-term accompaniment of the movements behind it.
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LGBTQIA+ Peasants in Struggle: Free Our Land, Free Our Bodies
As part of uplifting queer and trans liberation for June, we are reposting this piece from 2021 from Capire, a publication of the World March of Women.
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Via Campesina Releases Booklet on Economic Justice
This month, our partner La Via Campesina has released a new booklet on economic justice for rural peoples. Movements are demanding access to resources and the means of production.
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Feeding the World, Cooling the Planet
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
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Advancing Together Toward Food Sovereignty in 2022
Amidst intersecting crises, movements are putting the principles of food sovereignty into practice on the ground, and they are launching a process toward a major global convergence.
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Speaking out for Palestinian Civil Society, Democracy and Human Rights
Following the Israeli Defense Minister's attacks on Palestinian civil society, Grassroots International, together with scores of other organizations in the US and around the world, reaffirms our commitment to justice for Palestine and an end to the criminalization of Palestinian human rights groups.
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Climate Solutions from Soil to Seed
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.
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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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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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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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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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Amid COVID-19, Via Campesina says stay home but not silent
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.
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Coming Out! Gender Diversity in the Food System
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.
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Amazon Fires are a Crime Against Humanity
The following statement comes from our partner, Via Campesina, speaking out against the deliberate fires set in the Amazon rain forest.
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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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With Peoples’ Protests Mounting, Why Are Philanthropists Lagging Behind on Climate Change?
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.