The bulletin board is a place where GRAIN staff and others post their comments, suggestions, hints and assessments of documents, places or events. Or just share information that we think is interesting.
Glenn Ashton | 23 April 2013 | food sovereignty, seeds & biodiversity, laws & policies
Seed and the control of seed lies at the heart of agriculture. In Africa around 80% of seed comes from local and community saved seed resources. This seed is adapted to local conditions. It forms an integral part of community food security and agricultural integrity. This entire traditional system is now under threat.
ADECRU | 17 April 2013 | food sovereignty, laws & policies | Mozambique
Youth and student group Academic Action for the Development of Rural Communities (ADECRU) call G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa an attack against Africa's food sovereignty, cultural diversity and biodiversity.
Nyéléni Newsletter | 20 March 2013 | food sovereignty | Colombia
The latest edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is dedicated to the struggles for food sovereignty that help us to hope for a better world, including this story of how peasants in Colombia are fending off the advance of supermarkets and managing to build up their own markets in Bogotá.
FOEE, CEO | 19 March 2013 | corporations, technologies, food sovereignty, actions, GMOs | EU
In the last 15 years only two GM crops have been authorized for cultivation in Europe. This was a result of public rejection and successful opposition by the environmental, social and farmers movements. However, we are still faced with around 25 GM crops in the pipeline that are close to getting approved, many of them resistant to (multiple) herbicides, and Bt-crops. Therefore, we are launching a new campaign on Monday 18 March to stop new GMO approvals for cultivation in the EU: Stop the Crop!
Organisations of the Food Sovereignty Movement | 09 October 2012 | land grabbing, food crisis, food sovereignty, food safety
Nearly a quarter of the world’s fresh food is supplied by approximately one billion people who produce fruits and vegetables on urban and peri-urban farms and gardens. While most of this food is consumed by the producers themselves, a substantial part goes directly into urban markets at affordable prices. Given that over half of the world’s economically poor population now live in cities, and given the dangerous volatility of global food markets, this locally-produced food is becoming increasingly important to urban food security.
IRIN | 01 October 2012 | food sovereignty | Mauritania
Dairy farmers and pastoralists struggle as Mauritanian market is flooded with cheap milk products imported from Europe.
Ian Masters | 24 July 2012 | corporations, food crisis, food sovereignty
Ian Masters interviews Eric Holt-Giménez about the current drought affecting numerous grain-producing countries and its potential impacts
GRAIN | 26 June 2012 | land grabbing, corporations, food sovereignty
A statement signed by over 60 environmental, development and farming groups calls for pension funds and other financial institutions to stop land grabbing.
Via Campesina Africa | 20 June 2012 | corporations, climate crisis, food sovereignty | Mozambique
With the Rio+20 conference about to open, we would like to share with you a real life story from Mozambique on the problems that rural communities get themselves into with carbon trading projects. When farmers start growing carbon instead of food. Written and documented by Via Campsina Africa.
Via Campesina | 06 June 2012 | corporations, food crisis, climate crisis, food sovereignty
Via Campesina's take on the 'Green Economy' and other business plans being prepared for the Rio+20 Summit. A good summary.
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