Global Partnerships

David Moore — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:36:23 +0000

With land, water and seeds increasingly controlled by a small number of poorly regulated transnational corporations, effective social change for resource rights and a fair food system must match this global reach. We call this life-giving cross-border work globalization from below. This work puts us at the front lines of the struggle between private gain and public good.

In that work, we are honored to have formed partnerships with powerful and visionary global networks like the Via Campesina, which represents more than 100 million small producers in 68 countries.

Confronting the Global Food Challenge

Carol Schachet — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:07:36 +0000

A group of civil society organizations, including Grassroots International, will participate in a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, entitled "Confronting the Global Food Challenge: Finding New Approaches to Trade and Investment that Support the Right to Food." The conference-convened by Grassroots' allies the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance and FoodFirst Information & Action Network-will meet November 24-26 to explore the impact of trade and investment on the right to food and to develop new approaches that have human rights at the core.

Will Jatropha Invade Mozambique: Via Campesina Confronts The Global Agrofuel Industrial Complex

Maria Aguiar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:07:03 +0000

Recently I returned from the Via Campeisna's Vth International Conference in Mozambique, followed by brief visit with social justice organizations in South Africa. Also in Mozambique, as delegate to the Via Campesina Conference, was Grassroots International colleague John Peck of the Family Farm Defenders and the National Family Farm Coalition. John wrote the article below just days after hearing the President of Mozambique, Armando Emilio Guebuza, address the Via Campesina Assembly. In his address, Guebuza unfortunately noted that his government would be supporting the expansion of jatropha plantations for agrofuels production.

Announcing: A New Popular Education Tool!

Carol Schachet — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:00:56 +0000

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Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum now available for free download

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The Via Campesina to Hold 5th International Conference

Carol Schachet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:39:56 +0000

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Gathering Scheduled for Maputo, Mozambique 16-23 October

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Via Campesina holds its Vth International Conference

Livelihood Rights: The Right to Exist

Saulo Araujo — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:47:12 +0000

Members of Grassroots International's partner La Via Campesina -- an international network of peasants, indigenous peoples, fishers, pastoralists, women, and youth -- gathered in late June in Jakarta, Indonesia to defend their right to exist, and called for a UN Convention on the Rights of Peasants. (Below, see their final declaration)

Under intense threat from the expansion of agro-fuels in South America and Indonesia, militarization in Colombia and South Korea, and increasing food prices, rural families are voicing a predicament that affects all communities.

Farmers bringing message to the Food Crisis Summit in Rome expelled

Nikhil Aziz — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:33:37 +0000

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"Stop corporate control over food!"

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Civil Society forum calls for Rethinking of the Global Food System

Nikhil Aziz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:29:25 +0000

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The Time has Come for La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty

Nikhil Aziz — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:56:22 +0000

Around the world it seems more and more that the time has come for La Via Campesina. The global alliance of peasant and family farm organizations has spent the past decade perfecting an alternative proposal for how to structure a country's food system, called Food Sovereignty. It was clear at the World Forum for Food Sovereignty, held last year in Mali, that this proposal has been gaining ground with other social movements, including those of indigenous peoples, women, consumers, environmentalists, some trade unions, and others. Though when it comes to governments and international agencies, it has until recently been met with mostly deaf ears. But now things have changed. The global crisis of rising food prices, which has already

An Answer to the Global Food Crisis: Peasants and small farmers can feed the world

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:54:47 +0000

By La Via Campesina

Prices on the world market for cereals are rising. Wheat prices increased by 130% in the period between March 2007-March 2008. Rice prices increased by almost 80% in the period up to 2008. Maize prices increased by 35% between March 2007 and March 2008 (1). In countries that depend heavily on food imports some prices have gone up dramatically. Poor families see their food bills go up and can no longer afford to buy the minimum needed.