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• Newsletter no 8 - Water
  2 avril 2014, par Manu

  The Sound of Water
  At the ancient pond
  a frog plunges into
  the sound of water
  Frog Haiku by Matsuo Bashô, Translated by Sam Hamill
  Water for life, not for death !
  Rallying cry of the International Movement of Dam Affected Peoples.
  For centuries, in every part of the world, water has been a pivotal force of civilisation, culture and progress. Proximity to secure water sources has guided the itineraries of nomadic peoples and other travelers, and determined where communities and nations (...)

• Newsletter no 5 - Nyéléni Europe
  2 avril 2014, par Manu

  As we follow the road to Krems, we advance towards people’s food sovereignty.
  In Europe, more than a thousand farms, along with the people who make them possible, dissapear every day. The loss of cultivated biodiversity continues to increase. The best lands are falling into the hands of financial capital, which is also speculating with food and as a result food crises are rocketing. The European population is increasingly suspicious of a food system that regularly puts their health at (...)

• Newsletter no 3 - Farmers’ Seeds
  2 avril 2014, par Manu

  Peasants’ seeds - rights and power
  The age-old process of creating and developing diversity in the fields has led to the development of a series of legal bases aimed at guaranteeing the exercising of collective rights, allowing for on-going co-evolution. Nation-states are responsible for determining how natural resources should be used and distributed, the rights that should provide access, use, and control of these resources, and who holds these rights. The balance of power within (...)

• Newsletter no 22 - Nutrition and Food Sovereignty
  15 juin 2015, par Manu

  Editorial : Nutrition and Food sovereignty
  This edition of the Nyéléni newsletter focuses on nutrition as a key element of the human right to adequate food and nutrition within the framework of food sovereignty. It puts the spotlight on the artificial fragmentation of food and nutrition and attempts by the private sector to capture nutrition policy spaces. Its authors describe the impact this has on people’s nutrition and the ways communities are resisting and building alternative food (...)

• Newsletter no 31 - Oceans and water
  18 septembre 2017, par Manu

  Editorial
  Water is an essential element for life and a crucial component of the human environment. It is also an indispensable natural resource needed for the production of our food and the maintenance of our planet’s basic functions. For these reasons, water has increasingly become a central political element in peoples’ struggles for food sovereignty.
  The current edition of the Nyéléni newsletter exposes the growing global threat of privatization and commodification of water – especially (...)

• Newsletter no 7 - Fishery and Climate Change
  2 avril 2014, par Manu

  Fishing for their futures - small scale fishing communities fighting for their way of life.
  Developing countries are generally more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than more developed countries due to their low capacity to adapt to climate change and variability. Increasing global surface temperatures, rising sea levels, irregular changes in average annual precipitation and increases in the variability and intensity of extreme weather events pose a major threat to coastal and (...)

• Newsletter no 2 - Factory Farms
  2 avril 2014, par Manu

  Industrialized food production : the base of the junk food system.
  There is no more potent symbol of the almost absolute control wielded by the international agri-food system (from landgrabbing to retailing), than the factory farm. These industrial complexes cause extensive pollution and disease in entire regions and emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases, all in order to produce food destined for the poor : “cheap” meat of dubious quality, whose true costs are never measured. This system is (...)

• Newsletter no 27 - Smallholders’ markets
  3 octobre 2016, par Manu

  Editorial : Smallholders’ markets Illustration : Rigel Stuhmiller - www.rigelstuhmiller.com
  In practically every Indian town, vendors pushing handcarts move from one neighborhood to another, supplying customers with seasonal and perennial fruits and vegetables. By the coasts, fresh catch from small fishing boats are laid out for sale every morning and evening. Itinerant traders purchase fish from these markets and transport them to different villages. Daily fish and seafood markets are (...)

• Newsletter no 34 - Migration and Food Sovereignty
  8 septembre 2018, par Manu

  Editorial - Food Sovereignty and Migration (Illustration : Banksy in NY)
  This edition is dedicated to the issue of migration and its implications for our struggle for food sovereignty. The so-called migration crisis has taken a highly tragic turn with Trump’s new anti-migrant policy of the inhuman separation of families and the imprisonment of migrant children in concentration camps, while the deaths in the Mediterranean of refugees that attempt to enter Europe continue.
  The United Nations (...)

• Newsletter no 26 - Land reform and food sovereignty
  13 juin 2016, par Manu

  Editorial : Land Reform and Food Sovereignty
  A wave of financial capital is crashing down upon the resources held in rural corners of the planet in the world today. In this process we see a financialization of rural goods and assets along with a (re)capitalizing of capitalistic extractive efforts through agribusiness. This is especially apparent in terms of monocrop exports, forestry plantations, agrofuels, mining companies and in the construction of megaprojects like dams, highways and (...)

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