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• Newsletter no 39 - Food Sovereignty in an era of authoritarian and fascist resurgence
  31 March 2020, by Manu

  Editorial: Food Sovereignty in an era of authoritarian and fascist resurgence Illustration: Rosanna Morris, rosannamorris.com
  In every region of the world, we are seeing the rise and consolidation of social, political and cultural forces that are racist, xenophobic, misogynist, male chauvinist, homo-lesbo-transphobic, anti-pacifist, antidemocratic and totalitarian. Variously called fascist, authoritarian populist, dictatorships and even democracies, these forces are identifiable by their (...)

• Newsletter no 3 - Farmers’ Seeds
  2 April 2014, by 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 24 - Forests, Foraging and the Commons
  15 December 2015, by Manu

  Editorial : Forests, Foraging and the Commons
  About 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries. Most survive on subsistence farming, artisanal fisheries and/or nomadic herding and many are landless, working as seasonal labour on farms, plantations, in fisheries and industry. Their daily food needs are met primarily through local production, foraging, hunting and fishing — often by women — on small farms, common grazing lands and in woods, forests, streams, (...)

• Newsletter no 20 - Agroecology and climate
  3 December 2014, by Manu

  Peasant Agroecology, the key for humankind and the planet
  Agroecology has existed for many years, and much has been written about it already. It is a multidimensional approach, founded on knowledge, know-how and peasants’ ways of life, grounded in their respective natural, social and cultural environment. For many years it was considered as archaic and not really adapted to “modern progress”. Agroecology was banished, but is now making a big comeback. But who will reap the benefits? (...)

• Newsletter no 2 - Factory Farms
  2 April 2014, by 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 34 - Migration and Food Sovereignty
  8 September 2018, by 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 10 - "Green" Economy
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  This June in Rio de Janeiro the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 will be held, marking two decades since the Earth Summit. The “green” economy will be the main theme of discussion and debates at the Rio+20 summit, this concept represents a way of transforming the environmental crisis into a tool for capital accumulation – considering that in current times the capitalist system regards markets as the primary medium for responding to the global environmental crisis, (...)

• Newsletter no 8 - Water
  2 April 2014, by 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 (...)

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