“The Paris Accords Will Cause the Planet to Burn”
December 7, 2015
The Paris agreement, according to Pablo Solón, a veteran of climate negotiations, “will be an agreement that will burn up the planet.”
Category: Food Sovereignty
Mexican Agriculture: Full Warehouses, Empty Pocketbooks
November 5, 2015
Outraged Mexican farmers arrived at the same bridges at the frontier with the United States this Monday. For ten hours they blocked the importation lane of the Córdoba/Americas international bridge that links the city of El Paso, Texas, with Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.
The Occupation of the Bridge of the Americas
October 28, 2015
The Bridge of the Americas, known as the Cordoba Bridge or Free Bridge in borderland parlance, carries more than just commercial trucks and routine travelers between the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas. Over the years the border crossing over the Rio Grande has also served as a bridge between social movements and political ideas with transcendence in Mexico, the United States and across the globe.
Trade Deals Boosting Climate Change: The Food Factor
October 26, 2015
We see seven main ways through which the food and agriculture components of today’s trade and investment deals will make the climate crisis worse.
October 16th: International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and Against Transnational Corporations
October 16, 2015
La Via Campesina calls its members and allies, and civil society organizations to mobilize and organize actions on October 16th, the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against transnational corporations (TNCs).
TPP, NAFTA Reloaded
October 16, 2015
The product of exclusive negotiations that took place behind closed doors, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents the final sale of Mexico to the multinational corporations. In other words, a farewell to whatever national sovereignty still exists, and the elimination of any possibility of recuperating food sovereignty.
A Tale of Two Food Prizes
October 12, 2015
What do human rights and oppression have to do with hunger? Everything.
Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras Wins Food Sovereignty Prize for Defense of Lands
October 7, 2015
In 2015, the US Food Sovereignty Prize honors the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH by its Spanish acronym), Afro-indigenous farmers and fisherpeople who are defending their lands, waters, agriculture, and way of life.
Mexico’s GMO Corn Ban and Glyphosate Cancer Findings
July 20, 2015
Twenty-two months ago, Mexico became a GM maize-free territory, when a Federal Judge issued the precautionary measure that suspended authorizations to plant any genetically modified seeds of this grain, a staple food in the country, essential to its culture.
A Harvest of Justice in San Quintin?
May 18, 2015
The farm workers of the San Quintin Valley have gotten the federal government to commit to facilitating negotiations for a wage hike. But movement leaders warn that the the agreement is still not a victory.