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.
Brazilian civil society | 16 November 2018 | seeds & biodiversity | Brazil
We, Brazilian peasants, family farmers, indigenous peoples, traditional peoples and communities, community scientists, social and trade union movements and urban groups, aware of the themes to be discussed at COP14, hereby manifest our position.
Focus on the Global South | 15 November 2018 | corporations, food sovereignty | Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
On 24 July 2018, Focus on the Global South, ETC Group, and the Chulalongkorn University Research Institute (CUSRI) organized a forum in Bangkok on corporate concentration in agriculture and food, and its implications on food sovereignty in South East Asia. The forum brought speakers from a number of national, regional and international organisations, and the audience of around 60 individuals comprised representatives from social movements, civil society organisations, academia, and the general public.
AFSA | 10 November 2018 | agroecology
Timothy A. Wise | 30 October 2018 | land grabbing, seeds & biodiversity, actions | Mozambique
On July 26, 2018, farmers in Xai-Xai, Mozambique, achieved a milestone. They met to formalize their new farmers’ association, elect leaders, and prepare a petition to the local government for land. The association, christened Tsakane, which means “happy” in the local Changana language, was the culmination of six years of resistance to a Chinese land grab that had sparked protest and outrage. The association now has a request pending for its own land. An encouraging story by Timothy A. Wise
300 CSOs | 30 October 2018 | laws & policies
More than 300 civil society organizations from 73 countries urge fundamental reform at UNCITRAL’s investor-state dispute settlement discussions
FIAN et al. | 23 October 2018 | land grabbing, corporations | Belgium, Luxembourg, Sierra Leone
As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society coalition from Belgium and the Netherlands calls upon ING to clean up their act. ING’s financing of controversial palm oil companies such as SOCFIN is far from sustainable.
Pesticide Action Network Asia-Pacific (PANAP) | 16 October 2018
Today, October 16, the world led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is celebrating the World Food Day under the theme “A #ZeroHunger world by 2030 is possible”. But for many people, most ironically those who directly produce the world’s food, there is nothing to celebrate. For them, what should be marked today instead is “World Hunger Day” to protest the grim reality faced by countless families around the world, especially in the poor countries and in the rural areas.
Jyoti Fernandez | 14 October 2018 | food sovereignty, laws & policies, actions | United Kingdom
Great talk by Jyoti Fernandez of the Landworkers Alliance on the opening night of the We Feed the World exhibition reminding us of the role we all can all play in standing up for a fairer food and farming system.
Inclusive Development International, Equitable Cambodia, Human Rights Law Centre and OECD Watch | 11 October 2018 | land grabbing | Australia, Cambodia
ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by financing a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a statement released today by an Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overseas. In a rare rebuke of a commercial bank, the Australian National Contact Point found it “difficult to reconcile” ANZ’s decision to finance Phnom Penh Sugar with the bank’s internal rules and the OECD Guidelines, an ethical business code that the Australian government has endorsed.
Eric J. Wallace | 04 October 2018 | seeds & biodiversity | Ethiopia
The story of Melaku Worede former director of the Ethiopian Biodiversity Insitute, who pioneered a genebank working with farmers: “We believe in conservation through use, in keeping diversity alive as farmers use it."
Other websites that GRAIN is involved in:
You can read this site in English, Spanish or French by selecting the appropriate language at the top of the page. The site also contains some materials in a number of other languages:
