Shashe farmers demonstrate practical food sovereignty
Food sovereignty as a concept is under debate by various actors in the academia, activists and governments.
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UN-masking Climate Smart Agriculture
As women, men, peasants, smallholder family farmers, migrant, rural workers, indigenous, and youth of La Via Campesina, we denounce climate smart agriculture which is presented to us as a solution to climate change and as a mechanism for sustainable development.
UN: only small farmers and agroecology can feed the world
Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises linked to land, water and resource availability.
Reflections on Resilience
Building resilience into our food systems is fundamental, if society is to adapt to the consequences of climate change.
Today’s Peasant Movement – Sophisticated, Threatened, and Our Best Hope for Survival
Today, peasants proudly and powerfully put forward effective strategies to feed the planet and limit the damages wrought by industrial agriculture.
Local Bites Podcast #2: How to Feed the World? A Political Agroecological Approach
In this episode, Local Bites interviews Dr. M. Jahi Chappell of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy on the question, "What kind of food and farming system do we need to feed a growing world population in an ecologically sustainable and socially just manner?" His responses challenge widely-held notions about the future of our food supply.
Scaling up agroecology: A tool for policy
Even when they are convinced that agroecological approaches are the way forward, governments, funders and policy makers are challenged by the question of how to move forward.
Remarks to the World Food Prize Panel: We need to support smallholder farmers
We know that most countries produce more than enough food, even after waste, but many of them still have hungry people.
New UN report calls for transformation in agriculture
Transformative changes are needed in our food, agriculture and trade systems in order to increase diversity on farms, reduce our use of fertilizer and other inputs, support small-scale farmers and create strong local food systems.
Learning to value Mother Earth
Reducing waste and eating foods that have less of an impact on the environment is this years’ World Environment Day theme. We can all learn lessons from communities living in the Andes.
Living laboratory for coping with drought in Brazil
The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years.