Work opportunity at GRAIN! If you want to work on issues like seeds, land, climate and corporations, and contribute to the struggle for food sovereignty in Africa, check it out.
Work opportunity at GRAIN! If you want to work on issues like seeds, land, climate and corporations, and contribute to the struggle for food sovereignty in Africa, check it out.
Billions of dollars were ploughed into public subsidy schemes for fertiliser use in Africa after the 2008 global food crisis. That approach failed to reduce food imports yet boosted profits for big fertiliser companies. Fast-forward 2026: it's happening again.
Billions of dollars were ploughed into public subsidy schemes for fertiliser use in Africa after the 2008 global food crisis. That approach failed to reduce food imports yet boosted profits for big fertiliser companies. Fast-forward 2026: it's happening again.
Our 2025 Highlights report shares key wins & challenges: justice for communities impacted by Socfin plantations, momentum against seed privatisation & UPOV, and growing resistance to carbon markets, agribusiness concentration, and industrial animal & aquaculture expansion.
Our 2025 Highlights report shares key wins & challenges: justice for communities impacted by Socfin plantations, momentum against seed privatisation & UPOV, and growing resistance to carbon markets, agribusiness concentration, and industrial animal & aquaculture expansion.
To unlock the true potential of public food programmes, we must build on existing local food networks. This ‘Supermarket watch’ edition looks at the importance of involving street and market vendors and the challenges faced by public food programmes in India and Indonesia.
To unlock the true potential of public food programmes, we must build on existing local food networks. This ‘Supermarket watch’ edition looks at the importance of involving street and market vendors and the challenges faced by public food programmes in India and Indonesia.
Governments around the world are rushing to launch an international market for carbon credits. Big polluters want to avoid reducing emissions. Global South governments are hoping for a new source of revenues. And the cowboys of the carbon offset industry need a veneer of "integrity" for their scandal-plagued projects.
Governments around the world are rushing to launch an international market for carbon credits. Big polluters want to avoid reducing emissions. Global South governments are hoping for a new source of revenues. And the cowboys of the carbon offset industry need a veneer of "integrity" for their scandal-plagued projects.
The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group.
The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group.
Seed laws can be a double-edged sword. They aim to regulate markets, but governments often use them to impose restrictions that undermine farmers' sovereignty and the public interest. Experiences in Peru, Brazil and Guatemala show how laws mean to recognise Indigenous and peasant seeds can fall prey to corporate pressure and generate exclusion instead.
Seed laws can be a double-edged sword. They aim to regulate markets, but governments often use them to impose restrictions that undermine farmers' sovereignty and the public interest. Experiences in Peru, Brazil and Guatemala show how laws mean to recognise Indigenous and peasant seeds can fall prey to corporate pressure and generate exclusion instead.
A new report from GRAIN shows how Peru's port of Chancay, financed primarily by China, is reshaping agriculture trade routes. It is also opening the doors for new agribusiness investors and corporations to expand in South America.
A new report from GRAIN shows how Peru's port of Chancay, financed primarily by China, is reshaping agriculture trade routes. It is also opening the doors for new agribusiness investors and corporations to expand in South America.
The data detailed by the Street Vendors Barometer paints a grim reality, yet it might also help change it. The participatory research carried out by it is meant to visibilise and empower women vendors and market traders facing gender-based violence. Participatory research transforms women vendors from subjects of the research into equal partners of the process, which generates lived-based data to expose the gendered aspects of economic exclusion.
The data detailed by the Street Vendors Barometer paints a grim reality, yet it might also help change it. The participatory research carried out by it is meant to visibilise and empower women vendors and market traders facing gender-based violence. Participatory research transforms women vendors from subjects of the research into equal partners of the process, which generates lived-based data to expose the gendered aspects of economic exclusion.
The groups say carbon markets are part of a larger carbon colonialism in which war is one of the main contemporary factors deepening the climate, ecological and social crises.
The groups say carbon markets are part of a larger carbon colonialism in which war is one of the main contemporary factors deepening the climate, ecological and social crises.
This Oct 22, Witoon Lianchamroon of BIOTHAI goes to court over defamation charges from the giant Thai company CPF. A UN human rights representative calls it a SLAPP lawsuit, designed to silence criticism over a tilapia outbreak that has devastated farmers.
This Oct 22, Witoon Lianchamroon of BIOTHAI goes to court over defamation charges from the giant Thai company CPF. A UN human rights representative calls it a SLAPP lawsuit, designed to silence criticism over a tilapia outbreak that has devastated farmers.
Ghana was once self-sufficient in chicken. Then imports pushed by the World Bank decimated local farms. Now 90% of its poultry needs are imported. Today, the chicken business across Africa is fast becoming industrialised, threatening local diversity.
Ghana was once self-sufficient in chicken. Then imports pushed by the World Bank decimated local farms. Now 90% of its poultry needs are imported. Today, the chicken business across Africa is fast becoming industrialised, threatening local diversity.
