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.
Sustainable Food Trust | 17 August 2017 | food crisis, food sovereignty | United States
The Sustainable Food Trust today publishes summary proceedings of an international conference which brought together leading experts to establish the true cost of food in the United States (US). The US was one of the first countries to intensify food production and as a result was also one of the first to suffer from the negative impacts.
Environmental Rights Action (ERA) | 28 July 2017 | land grabbing | Nigeria
Support our petition as we internationalize our struggles against deforestation and corporate land grabs for large-scale oil palm plantation business.
Brot für die Welt et al. | 24 July 2017 | food sovereignty
For over half a century the struggle against poverty has been a focus of global rhetoric. Rarely, however, do people ask the most important question: Who is going to fight poverty? The World Bank and many governments have their answer: outside experts, donors and corporations will alleviate poverty. This perspective more or less reduces the struggle against poverty to an investment programme. Civil society organisations and social movements, in contrast, have a very different answer. In their view, the poor need to free themselves from poverty. This will require broadening their scope for action and strengthening their rights, and involves a programme of empowerment aimed at both more encompassing as well as piecemeal shifts in the balance of power. The poor are not needy recipients of aid; they only have their hands bound.
This is where the concept of agroecology, the focus of this brochure, plays in.
The Monitor | 21 July 2017 | land grabbing | Brazil, Canada
Campaign seeks divestment from speculative land-grabbing at home and abroad.
Forum Against FTAs | 20 July 2017 | corporations, seeds & biodiversity, intellectual property rights | India
Join us at the People's summit against RCEP in Hyderabad, India, starting Saturday 22 July!
bilaterals.org | 29 June 2017 | corporations, laws & policies
Over the last 30 years, people’s responses to the economic, social, and political impacts of capitalist globalisation have included inspiring examples of collective organising, strong social movements and radical progressive thinking.
Colin Todhunter, Counterpunch | 23 June 2017 | corporations, laws & policies | India
The plight of farmers in India has been well documented. A combination of debt, economic liberalisation, subsidised imports, rising input costs and a shift to cash crops (including GM cotton) has caused massive financial distress.
Darío Aranda | 20 June 2017 | corporations, seeds & biodiversity | Argentina
The agency that approves GM crops in Argentina is stuffed with employees of GMO-producing agroindustrial companies and scientists with conflicts of interest.
Coordination SUD | 12 June 2017 | food sovereignty, seeds & biodiversity
Without seeds, there is no agriculture. Since the beginning of farming, over 10,000 years ago, farmers have selected the best seeds from their harvests to plant in the next season, to exchange, or to sell informally. In this way they select the plants, from the varieties they have, that really correspond to their needs and to the usual diet of the local population. Owing to this selection, these varieties evolve over the years to adapt to the soil in which they grow and to climate changes. These practices are thus conducive to constant improvement and diversification of the biodiversity cultivated.
Canadian Food Security Policy Group | 02 June 2017 | laws & policies | Canada, Senegal
Canada’s support for the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) in Senegal has demonstrated that this model of public-private partnership is not necessarily the most effective way to meet development goals. This is according to research conducted in Senegal and Canada by the Canadian Food Security Policy Group (FSPG).
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