Have you registered for our online discussion on #LandSqueeze yet?
📅28/5/2024
🕑8am EST | 14h CEST | 5.30pm IST
📍Zoom
🤝Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Dr Susan Chomba Nettie Wiebe Dineo Skosana Rukka sombolinggi
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🔴Land crunch poses another threat to world’s #foodsecurity .

“This is reaching a tipping point small and medium scale farming are simply being squeezed out,” says Nettie Wiebe.

Learn more about the 🆕IPES-Food report
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Land inequality is on the rise. The farmers & communities who deliver food security and steward the land are being forced out.
Read more in IPES-Food’s latest report on the unprecedented pressure on farmland & possible ways forward: ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…
#LandSqueeze

Who speaks on behalf of Europe's varied farmers, in whose interests?

Important investigation by Lighthouse Reports finds it's 'a few people who bear little resemblance to the average farmer. They are much wealthier, sit on the boards of multiple companies & have close links with #BigAg '

Just a small group of powerful individuals claim they represent farmers who were protesting across Europe. Lighthouse Reports reveals they were mainly representing their own interests

'Two-thirds of Europeans now believe that #UltraProcessedFoods #UPF are unhealthy and will cause health problems in later life. 40% do not trust that the authorities are regulating them well enough.'
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#health #food #diets

Who speaks on behalf of Europe's varied farmers, in whose interests?

Important investigation by Lighthouse Reports finds it's 'a few people who bear little resemblance to the average farmer. They are much wealthier, sit on the boards of multiple companies & have close links with #BigAg '

With the EU elections coming and farming topping the agenda for many candidates, we looked at 4 of Europe’s agricultural powerhouses: France, Germany, Poland and Italy. Stories will be published over the next week.

Clear & compact summary of our #LandSqueeze report by TABLE.

IPES-Food 'explores the different drivers of land grabbing such as the fight for water & actors such as carbon off-setters & reveals that 1% of farms account for 70% of global farmland.'
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Have you registered for our online discussion on #LandSqueeze yet?
📅28/5/2024
🕑8am EST | 14h CEST | 5.30pm IST
📍Zoom
🤝Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Dr Susan Chomba Nettie Wiebe Dineo Skosana Rukka sombolinggi
👇ipes-food.org/land-squeeze-e…

Don't miss our Jomo KS tomorrow at LSE's Southeast Asia Forum:
South by Southeast? From Miracle and Debacle to Pragmatism

Zoom registration: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming  off-guardian.org/2024/05/16/men…

DIVERSITY IS LIFE!

This #biodiversityday , a reminder that sustainable and diverse farming like agroecology can help farmers build resilience to the impacts of climate change, while increasing productivity, nutrition, carbon sequestration – and wildlife! Million Belay explains

#Land is at a dangerous tipping point.

'The usurpation of control over land by big farming, investors, miners & urbanization is an acute problem for small & peasant farmers,' our Nettie Wiebe tells ffinlo Costain - 8point9.com & Farm Gate podcast
#Land Squeeze

Join us & Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for this webinar, where our experts will discuss our latest #LandSqueeze report with people on the frontlines of global land struggles.

📅Tuesday 28 May
🕑8am EST | 14h CEST | 5.30pm IST
📍Zoom

REGISTER NOW👇
ipes-food.org/land-squeeze-e…

A new IPES-Food report says farmers are being squeezed globally by natural capital markets - I speak to report author Nettie Wiebe
Full interview at 8point9.com

📅 What is driving unprecedented pressure on global farmland? Join us online for the launch of the latest IPES-Food report “LAND SQUEEZE” and a dialogue with people giving testimony on their struggles for land on the ground: rosalux.de/en/event/es_de…

📈Land prices have doubled globally since 2008. Who's benefiting? Not #farmers !
It's time to halt the #landsqueeze , hit pause on green grabs & financial speculation on farmland, & prioritize farmers' access to land.

IPES-Food new report 👇
▶️ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…

South by Southeast? From miracle and debacle to pragmatism
Southeast Asia: Miracle, Debacle and the New Cold War
9am, LSE (4pm, Kuala Lumpur; 9pm, New York); Marshall Building & via Zoom
lse.ac.uk/seac/events/20…

Social security & welfare are not charity, they are rights of the people whose labour feed & house us, & of women who produce & maintain life in the most adverse conditions. A wealth tax is urgently needed to for redistribution #LokSabhaElections2024 #EndTheBillionaireRaj