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• Newsletter no 4 - Food price volatility and Food markets
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  A new food price crisis: the time has come to put people at the centre of the food system!
  Chronic, persistent and increasing hunger levels. Rising demand on top of a collapsing resource base. Unsustainable consumption patterns and waste. Feedstocks diverted from food to fuel. Extreme vulnerability. Climate chaos. Political unrest and food riots. Markets rigged against the many in favour of the few. Spiralling food prices... The dominant food system is not delivering. This is because it is (...)

• Newsletter no 18 - Creating knowledge
  16 June 2014, by Manu

  Creating knowledge for food sovereignty
  There is movement in the many worlds that are creating knowledge for food sovereignty!
  The stories in this newsletter provide a glimpse into some of these worlds. They show that we are questioning the assumption of a single truth based on objective knowledge. Also that our understanding of the world is enriched by considering it from multliple perspectives, multiple cosmovisions. They indicate that for these multiple cosmovisions to enter into an (...)

• Newsletter no 19 - Territorial defence
  15 September 2014, by Manu

  Community struggles for the defence of their territories Landgrabbing continues unabated worldwide.
  When GRAIN started investigating the issue we highlighted the fact that at the same as certain governments were invoking their commitments to resolve food security they were also attempting to take control of increasing amounts of land across the world. Very quickly various financial groups (including various pension funds) jumped to the centre of the negotiations, exposing the speculative (...)

• Newsletter no 38 - Peasant seeds, the heart of the struggle for Food Sovereignty
  9 December 2019, by Manu

  Editorial: Peasant seeds - the heart of the struggle for Food Sovereignty
  In 2018 the United Nations (UN) adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants, recognising at the highest level of international governance the strategic role played by the peasants of the world. The Declaration complements the measures and policies required for the UN Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028), and for the implementation of Article 9 of the ITPGRFA (International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for (...)

• Newsletter no 0 - Land
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  Fair winds for the Nyéléni newsletter!
  Following the International Forum on Food Sovereignty held in Mali in February 2007, the social movements that brought this initiative to life have decided to create a tool for communication and exchange in order to continue the fight for food sovereignty and to defend the interests of disadvantaged groups such as small-scale farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples and pastoralists. The situation of these groups continues to deteriorate due to the (...)

• Newsletter no 28 - Agroecology at a crossroads
  13 December 2016, by Manu

  Editorial - Agroecology as resistance and transformation: Food Sovereignty and Mother Earth Illustration : Logo Escuela Campesina Multimedia
  Suddenly agroecology is in fashion with everyone, from grassroots social movements to the FAO, governments, universities and corporations. But not all have the same idea of agroecology in mind. While mainstream institutions and corporations for years have marginalized and ridiculed agroecology, today they are trying to capture it. They want to take (...)

• Newsletter no 21 - Rights to Natural Resources
  16 March 2015, by Manu

  Rights to Natural Resources
  As the world lurches from crisis to crisis, the value of land, water, forests, minerals and other natural resources as sources of wealth creation continues to rise. For those with long-standing ties to land, water and territories, nature’s greatest wealth and value is life itself, and these crises simply confirm the necessity for humans to live symbiotically with nature. However for many, natural resources are things that can be parceled, packaged, changed, (...)

• Newsletter no 41 - Beyond Land – Territory and Food Sovereignty
  15 September 2020, by Manu

  Editorial: Beyond Land – Territory and Food Sovereignty Illustration by Luisa Rivera / www.luisarivera.cl
  Land has always been a highly contested good. Control over land and related resources reflect the power relations in a country/region, and are an indicator of existing social injustices. At the same time, these resources are central to the rights, livelihoods and identity of small-scale food producers, and they have been at the heart of the food sovereignty movement from its beginning. (...)

• Newsletter no 27 - Smallholders’ markets
  3 October 2016, by 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 29 - FTAs and Agriculture
  14 March 2017, by Manu

  Editorial: FTAs and Agriculture
  Illustration : Anthony Freda | www.AnthonyFreda.com
  There is growing distrust and mobilisation against Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). FTAs hurt food sovereignty because they:
  – Erase the possibility of public strategies supporting local markets.
  – Lower or remove tariffs on imported goods, hurting local small-scale food producers who cannot compete with large subsidised agribusiness imports.
  – Harmonise standards on food safety, pesticides, GMOs and (...)

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