Voices from the field 1 -
Illustrations and comics to promote food sovereignty and peasants’ rights
“The Amrita Bhoomi book of Illustration on Natural farming explores the experiences of rural farmers in their ecological practices of soil restoration whilst also highlighting the horror of industrial farming. Working with peasants and children at Amrita Bhoomi we collated stories and inputs, using the local white bird and the ever-giving earth worm to weave these stories.” say Chilli and Yeme (...)
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Newsletter no 44 - Communicating for food sovereignty
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Voices from the field
13 June 2021, by Manu -
Boxes
13 June 2021, by ManuBox 1 -
The Nyéléni newsletter facilitates a pedagogy of peoples in the struggle for food sovereignty
In 2007 the Nyéléni Forum brought together representatives from organisations and movements of small-scale food providers, consumers and civil society organisations engaged in the struggle for food sovereignty. These participants shared knowledge, visions, strategies and practices for transforming their communities, societies and economies through the principles of food sovereignty. These (...) -
In the spotlight
13 June 2021, by ManuIn the spotlight -
The role of rural popular communications in the struggles of the peoples
Communication is a fundamental tool for all struggles, but it becomes absolutely essential for those that are territorially dispersed. The peasant struggle may have physical distances of thousands of miles between people, but it is a unified struggle. Popular communication in rural areas has several roles - to transmit knowledge, to resist corporate media, to recognize other communities, to reach (...) -
Newsletter no 44 - Communicating for food sovereignty
13 June 2021, by ManuEditorial -
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 (...)