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Views Justice for Berta: Honduran Women Activists Launch Land Rights Campaign Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow. Read more |
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Views Venezuela’s Food Revolution Has Fought Off Big Agribusiness and Promoted Agroecology Just days before the progressive National Assembly of Venezuela was dissolved, deputies passed a law which lays the foundation for a truly democratic food system. The country has not only banned genetically modified seeds, but set up democratic structures to ensure that seeds cannot be privatized... Read more |
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News World's Small Farmers Fighting Back as WTO Pushes Corporate Agenda The WTO is aiming to strengthen a 'corporate-driven free trade regime' while ignoring solutions that would protect small-scale farmers and increase food security, says La Via Campesina Read more |
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Views Five Reasons Why TTIP Is Bad News for Farmers This week activists around the world will take to the streets for two days of action to challenge corporate power. Friday is La Via Campesina ’s International Day of Peasant Struggle when food producers will gather to resist the global takeover of land, seeds and livelihoods by big business. Then... Read more |
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News Saving Seeds: Farmers Rise Up Against Industry-Backed Laws New publication by Grain and La Via Campesina documents nefarious ways new laws criminalize seed sharing and the growing peasant movement resisting them Read more |
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Views Global Justice Movements Converge on Revolutionary Ground Collective adrenaline ran high as the World Social Forum opened on March 24 in Tunis. It had not yet been five years since a peaceful revolution brought a dictatorship long backed by Western political superpowers to its knees and ignited the fire of the Arab Spring that burns to this day. And it... Read more |
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Views The Heat is On: Via Campesina and Allies Challenge Climate Capitalism A new report by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indisputably confirms what many scientists had predicted: 2014 is officially the hottest year on record. And this past year is not an anomaly—the previous ten hottest years on the books have all occurred since 1998... Read more |