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• Newsletter no 36 - Agroecology: real innovation from and for the people
  3 May 2019, by Manu

  Agroecology: real innovation from and for the people
  The crisis in the industrial food system is impossible to ignore. For over a decade, study after study has validated the assertion of the Food Sovereignty movement in 2007 - that the corporate food system destroys life. Now Governments are anxious to find ‘innovations’ in agriculture that can overcome this. They are hoping to be saved by a new Green Revolution – innovations in science and technology that can increase production without (...)

• Newsletter no 13 - Food Sovereignty
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  “Every struggle, in any part of the world for food sovereignty is our struggle.”
  Nyéléni Declaration on Food Sovereignty
  At the World Food Summit in 1996, La Via Campesina (LVC) launched a concept that both challenged the corporate dominated, market driven model of globalised food production and distribution, as well as offering a new paradigm to fight hunger and poverty by developing and strengthening local economies. Since then, food sovereignty has captured the imagination of people the (...)

• Newsletter no 17 - Youth and Agriculture
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  There will be no future for Food Sovereignty without the participation of young people – young people that are committed to the historical struggle for the liberation of our peoples and the transformation of our reality. As the Youth of La Vía Campesina (LVC), we must recognize the dignity and value in the work we do to maintain our struggles. During the 3rd International Assembly of the Youth of La Via Campesina, we identified the major areas of struggle as - Agroecology, Climate Change and (...)

• Newsletter no 1 - Climate Change
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  Together we can create a thousand Cancuns for change!
  International talks are hamstrung by industrialised countries failing to address their historical responsibility but our movements are forging ahead with real solutions to climate change. Across the world peasants and fisherfolk, pastoralists and Indigenous Peoples are articulating and living solutions - societies not based on high consumption of fossil fuels, protecting forests, and implementing food sovereignty. Increasingly they are (...)

• Newsletter no 37 - The digitalization of the food system
  15 September 2019, by Manu

  The digitalization of the food system Illustration: Marc Rosenthal - www.marc-rosenthal.com
  Today, more than 820 million people suffer from hunger while obesity also continues to increase across the world. Biodiversity in food and agriculture is being eroded at an alarming rate by the destruction of eco-systems. Climate change is accelerating: temperatures this July were the highest ever recorded; glaciers are melting much faster than predicted; and millions of young people are demanding (...)

• Newsletter 15 - Smallholder Agri-investments
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  200,000 hectares of land given to multinational Louis Dreyfus in Côte d’Ivoire for rice export. 70 million pounds of UK taxpayer money to develop genetically modified crops. Privatization of seeds across continents. These are just a few projects in the last years under the banner of ‘investing in agriculture’. This is why social movements are gearing up for one of the biggest emerging battles over the future of food sovereignty – the corporatization of investment. The private sector portrays (...)

• Newsletter no 42 - Ten Years of Nyéléni - Much to Celebrate !
  14 December 2020, by Manu

  Editorial
  Ten Years of Nyéléni - Much to Celebrate! Illustration by Francisco Daniel, MST de Brasil, www.facebook.com/fcodam/
  A decade ago, the movements of peasants, fisherfolk, shepherds, women, migrants, workers, young people, and indigenous peoples sowed a crucial seed in the defence of Food Sovereignty and the right to food - the Nyéléni Newsletter. During this ten year germination period, we have shared challenges, experiences, reflections, and acts of unity. In recent times, the (...)

• Newsletter no 35 - Food sovereignty at the rural-urban interface
  10 December 2018, by Manu

  Editorial - Food sovereignty at the rural-urban interface Illustration: Lucy Everitt for the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network - communitygarden.org.au
  The rural-urban interface is a complex social space where politics and culture are in constant flux. It can also be a physical place, where the wealth and resources of villages, towns, peri-urban suburbs, and suburbanized rural areas are in dispute. Taken globally, it is a vast territory with potential to grow food (...)

• Newsletter no 40 - Land grabs and land justice
  14 June 2020, by Manu

  Editorial: Land grabs and land justice Illustration by Boy Dominguez, the Journal of Peasant Studies special issue on Green Grabbing, 2012
  Land is the basis for social life. It is a foundation not only for agricultural production, but also shapes and is shaped by societies’ political, economic, and cultural dynamics: power affects land access, and land access grants power.
  Given land’s central role to human society, it is unsurprising that it has also been central to profit accumulation in (...)

• Newsletter no 16 - Peoples Struggle against WTO
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  WTO kills farmers!
  Food and agriculture are central to our lives as peasants and small farmers. Agriculture is not only our livelihood; it is our life, our culture and our way of relating to Mother Nature. The logic of free trade runs counter to this, as it makes food a commodity; a mere product to be bought and sold. This principle of free trade is embodied and pushed forward by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture aims to make agricultural policies the (...)

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