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• Newsletter no 36 - Agroecology: real innovation from and for the people
  3 May 2019, by Manu

  Agroecology: real innovation from and for the people
  The crisis in the industrial food system is impossible to ignore. For over a decade, study after study has validated the assertion of the Food Sovereignty movement in 2007 - that the corporate food system destroys life. Now Governments are anxious to find ‘innovations’ in agriculture that can overcome this. They are hoping to be saved by a new Green Revolution – innovations in science and technology that can increase production without (...)

• Newsletter no 45 - Food sovereignty – resisting corporate capture of our food systems
  24 September, by Manu

  Editorial
  Food sovereignty – resisting corporate capture of our food systems
  This year marks 25 years since the paradigm of food sovereignty was launched at the World Food Summit 1996 in Rome as a direct challenge to market-based food security promoted through the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Food sovereignty asserts the autonomy and agency of small-scale food producers and workers in the face of increasing corporate power over the entire realm of food. Since its launch, the food (...)

• Newsletter no 35 - Food sovereignty at the rural-urban interface
  10 December 2018, by Manu

  Editorial - Food sovereignty at the rural-urban interface Illustration: Lucy Everitt for the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network - communitygarden.org.au
  The rural-urban interface is a complex social space where politics and culture are in constant flux. It can also be a physical place, where the wealth and resources of villages, towns, peri-urban suburbs, and suburbanized rural areas are in dispute. Taken globally, it is a vast territory with potential to grow food (...)

• Newsletter no 31 - Oceans and water
  18 September 2017, by Manu

  Editorial
  Water is an essential element for life and a crucial component of the human environment. It is also an indispensable natural resource needed for the production of our food and the maintenance of our planet’s basic functions. For these reasons, water has increasingly become a central political element in peoples’ struggles for food sovereignty.
  The current edition of the Nyéléni newsletter exposes the growing global threat of privatization and commodification of water – especially (...)

• Newsletter no 13 - Food Sovereignty
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  “Every struggle, in any part of the world for food sovereignty is our struggle.”
  Nyéléni Declaration on Food Sovereignty
  At the World Food Summit in 1996, La Via Campesina (LVC) launched a concept that both challenged the corporate dominated, market driven model of globalised food production and distribution, as well as offering a new paradigm to fight hunger and poverty by developing and strengthening local economies. Since then, food sovereignty has captured the imagination of people the (...)

• Newsletter no 44 - Communicating for food sovereignty
  13 June, by Manu

  Editorial -
  Communicating for food sovereignty: people’s culture and popular education
  Illustration: Chille and Yemee for Amrita Bhoomi agroecology school in India.
  Food sovereignty, among the multitude of ideas that it encompasses, is also about defending the billion diversities that exist on this planet, and is a celebration of our many unique practices, tastes, cultures and customs. An important pillar in this struggle for food sovereignty is the role played by popular rural (...)

• Newsletter no 25 - Corporate governance of food systems
  15 March 2016, by Manu

  Editorial: Blocking the path of corporate governance of food systems (Illustration: Daniel Pudles, danielpudles.co.uk)
  From our oceans and seashores, crossing our lands and reaching deep into the minerals of our earth, there is a dangerous threat dominating our current political and economic relations around the world: the so-called private corporate capture of policy-making public spaces. For decades, civil society and social movements have been struggling to democratically (...)

• Newsletter no 2 - Factory Farms
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  Industrialized food production: the base of the junk food system.
  There is no more potent symbol of the almost absolute control wielded by the international agri-food system (from landgrabbing to retailing), than the factory farm. These industrial complexes cause extensive pollution and disease in entire regions and emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases, all in order to produce food destined for the poor: “cheap” meat of dubious quality, whose true costs are never measured. This system is (...)

• Newsletter no 29 - FTAs and Agriculture
  14 March 2017, by Manu

  Editorial: FTAs and Agriculture
  Illustration : Anthony Freda | www.AnthonyFreda.com
  There is growing distrust and mobilisation against Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). FTAs hurt food sovereignty because they:
  – Erase the possibility of public strategies supporting local markets.
  – Lower or remove tariffs on imported goods, hurting local small-scale food producers who cannot compete with large subsidised agribusiness imports.
  – Harmonise standards on food safety, pesticides, GMOs and (...)

• Newsletter no 4 - Food price volatility and Food markets
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  A new food price crisis: the time has come to put people at the centre of the food system!
  Chronic, persistent and increasing hunger levels. Rising demand on top of a collapsing resource base. Unsustainable consumption patterns and waste. Feedstocks diverted from food to fuel. Extreme vulnerability. Climate chaos. Political unrest and food riots. Markets rigged against the many in favour of the few. Spiralling food prices... The dominant food system is not delivering. This is because it is (...)

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