La Via Campesina's Open Book: Celebrating 20 Years of Struggle and Hope
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:42
- Introduction
- Women of La Via Campesina: Creating and Occupying our Rightful Spaces
Nettie Wiebe - From Food Sovereignty to Peasants’ Rights: an Overview of Via Campesina’s Struggle for New Human Rights
Priscilla Claeys - Harvest of wisdom: Dialogue Among Via Campesina Representatives
Annette Aurélie Desmarais - The future will not be monocultured
Alexander Heubuch - India: A conversation with farmers of the KRRS
Ashlesha Khadse and Niloshree Bhattacharya - Indian farmers rise up against the corporate hijack of the world
Niloshree Bhattacharya and Ashlesha Khadse - Zimbabwe’s land reform farmers prosper despite difficulties
Joseph Hanlon - Constitutionalization of the struggle for food sovereignty in Nepal: Success, prospects and challenges
Pramesh Pokharel - Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in South Africa
Mercia Andrews - La Via Campesina: An Historical and Political Analysis
Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Paul Nicholson - The Radicalization of the Struggles of the Food Sovereignty Movement in Africa
Ricado Jacobs
Nyeleni Newsletter: Food and Cities
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 October 2012 13:42
Urban agriculture: Moving towards food sovereignty?
Nearly a quarter of the world’s fresh food is supplied by approximately one billion people who produce fruits and vegetables on urban and peri-urban farms and gardens. While most of this food is consumed by the producers themselves, a substantial part goes directly into urban markets at affordable prices. Given that over half of the world’s eco-nomically poor population now live in cities, and given the dangerous volatility of global food markets, this locally-produced food is becoming increasingly important to urban food security.
Dublin: once more pulling the wool over the eyes of civil society!
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- Published on Friday, 14 May 2010 19:46
Jakarta, 14-05-2010
The United Nation High Level Taskforce on the Global Food Security crisis is organising a consultation meeting with civil society organisations in Dublin, on May 17&18, to update the following document, “Comprehensive Frame work for Action” (CFA) produced in July 2008.
This report gathers a set of medium and long term actions to enable governments, UN and Bretton Wood multilateral agencies to give, according to Ban Ki Moon “a coherent and coordinated reply to the global food crisis” In the short term, access to food for the most vulnerable population must be improved and in the long term new situations of food insecurity must be avoided.
In principle, this initiative seems to satisfy all expectations, but in practice several points must be criticised.
Call for action against Transnationals
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 September 2009 19:19
CALL FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, THE MAIN THREAT FOR PEASANT AND INDIGENOUS FAMILIES AND FOR HUMANITY.
16th of OCTOBER 2009, first day of international action
The transnational corporations are our common enemy; they constitute the present form of capital which exercises control over our economies.
In the rural areas we are witnessing a savage offensive by capital and by the transnational corporations on agriculture and natural resources. It is a privatisation war of plunder directed against peasants and indigenous people, a privatisation robbery of the land, biodiversity, water, seeds, production, and agribusiness trade.
We are talking not only about the agribusiness corporations but also about those companies involved in mineral extraction, monoculture tree plantations, big dams, those controlling the distribution markets, and in general, all of those which are involved in the expansion of the contaminating industries, and the dispute and appropriation of land, water and territory.
