“We know there is no future for this capitalist food system. It has to die but it is not yet dead. In this process, food sovereignty activists act as collective midwives that are giving birth to a new system.”Read the full article
“All our field observations show that people’s livelihoods are profoundly affected for many years after they are evicted. So why continue along this path?”Read the full article
“Both countries have one thing in common: the absence of social protection policies. This exacerbates social exclusion and poverty of the populations in both Lebanon and Afghanistan.”Read the full article
How the Slow Food movement is helping local communities and smallholder farmers in Africa ensure food sovereignty and breakaway from neocolonial production systems.Read the full article
Venezuela ranks number nine in the world in renewable freshwater resources. However, the state, which is responsible for supplying these resources, guarantees neither their quality nor their availability.Read the full article
“It is a silent process, for which we have hardly any data, but we can see how investment funds are taking over not only land but also production. This is furthering the industrialisation of agriculture and livestock farming,” damaging ecosystems and overexploiting [...]Read the full article
Certified organic farming accounts for just 1.5 per cent of the world’s agricultural land, with some 72 million hectares managed by three million farmers in 187 countries.Read the full article
“This extractivist industry doesn’t benefit the region. It’s unsustainable, and it relies on the exploitation of migrant labour.”Read the full article
High-intensity agriculture in the Netherlands, the world’s second largest agricultural exporter, has led to ubiquitous nitrate and pesticide water pollution. Today, researchers and farmers are looking into ways to transition towards more water-friendly [...]Read the full article
Fisherfolk in eastern Thailand have taken up the role of citizen scientists to document the long-lasting impacts of what is believed to be the biggest oil spill in the history of the country, and to obtain compensation from those [...]Read the full article
Hard hit by the pandemic and several years of economic woes, Brazil’s poor population is once again experiencing disturbing levels of food insecurity, affecting nearly 125 million people, that is, almost six out of ten Brazilians.Read the full article
In the DRC, slaughterhouses lack the equipment required to ensure that the cows slaughtered there are in good health, which poses a danger to both consumers and slaughterhouse workers.Read the full article
According to the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter, it’s time for a new agricultural revolution. The key idea, he says, is to use nature as an ally and to work with it, rather than treating it as a sort of animal that needs to be [...]Read the full article
Mereki’s female chefs not only defeat the pervasive, sexist norms present in the world of barbecues, but crucially, they earn enough money to head households on an equal financial footing with men.Read the full article
If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.Read the full article
In Turkey, tech companies are pushing back hard against any attempts to unionise, to prevent riders from being able to demand basic labour rights.Read the full article
Rising temperatures and adverse weather conditions affecting Europe made 2021 a particularly tough year for bees. The honey harvest has been badly hit. Pesticide poisoning and unfair competition from third countries are adding to the problems faced by [...]Read the full article
With legislators and investors in the same boat, the wind is blowing in favour of insect farmers in Europe. The question now is: how far can they go?Read the full article
For several months, nearly 1.35 million people have been struggling to eat their fill in southern Madagascar. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), this could be the first famine in the world caused by climate change.Read the full article
“By framing hunger as a ‘shortage’ and ‘market access’ issue, it glosses over the fact that poverty, injustice, occupation, neocolonialism and inequality are at the heart of hunger.”Read the full article
Mexico ranks first in the world in childhood obesity and second in adult obesity. Until recently, studies addressing the causes of obesity have focused on the poor choices made by individuals, but have rarely looked at the obesogenic [...]Read the full article
While Africa, led by Côte d’Ivoire, currently produces 90 per cent of the world’s raw cashew nuts, less than 15 per cent are processed on the continent. The majority of production is exported to Asia. Relocating cashew nut processing to African countries would mean an important new source of [...]Read the full article
Faced with mounting poverty, local officials in France are subsidising food aid associations on the condition that they get their supplies from local producers, foreshadowing the idea of “social security for food”.Read the full article
A new crop of professionals in the region are developing and engaging in new projects to help communities, the environment, and to make a difference.Read the full article
European chocolate makers will make a significant portion of their annual turnover around Easter time thanks in part to cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s leading producer. But this ‘brown gold’ is the product of an environmentally destructive industry with precarious working [...]Read the full article
Women from the main Indigenous ethnic group in Chiquimula, Guatemala, one of the country’s poorest departments, from which many people migrate, are taking on entrepreneurial and leadership roles in addition to their traditional roles in the home. The trend has been reinforced by the pandemic and [...]Read the full article
Aligning domestic law to international law is not enough: women’s rights on paper must also be reflected by their lived experiences.Read the full article
“With these laws, farming will become corporate, and these corporates will make us landless.”Read the full article
While the rejection of animal suffering remains the most deeply rooted and the most decisive conviction, anti-speciesism now also takes into account climate change caused by factory farming as well as infectious diseases of animal origin, zoonoses, of which the Covid-19 pandemic is the most [...]Read the full article
Growing vertical and horizontal integration in the agricultural industry – with ever bigger corporations controlling a greater share of the food system – is one of the main risks attached to the technological advances in farming. And tech companies are already showing an interest in the [...]Read the full article
As the pandemic puts the unfair working conditions of gig workers under the spotlight, a recent study has uncovered a growing number of protests undertaken by food delivery platform workers worldwide.Read the full article
In a yet-to-be-signed memorandum of understanding, Argentina and China have laid out plans to set up 25 macro pig farms in the South American country, which would multiply by 14 the number of pigs there. The province of Chaco is already moving ahead with the signature of an agreement with a [...]Read the full article
Several companies are implementing projects in the food and agriculture industry to improve transparency and traceability at production sites.Read the full article
Senegalese fishermen are hindered by the scarcity of fish resources and competition from foreign boats. Facing a lack of opportunity, many decide to go into exile to Europe.Read the full article
The tragedy of the oceans is the legal uncertainty surrounding them. As our blue waters struggle to survive, being emptied of their living species, the international community is struggling to find solutions to protect the wealth of these vast expanses where illegal fishing is a real [...]Read the full article
Labour and human rights defenders in south-east Asia increasingly face lengthy and arduous legal battles over their work, according to new report on judicial harassment.Read the full article
