"Our governments give us inputs, but that creates dependency. We're trying to run away from that." Mary Sakala-Rural Women Assembly. This cycle of chemical intensive agriculture brought by AGRAs green revolution has degraded our soils. shorturl.at/lS9mY #AFSForum2024

Industrial animal #agriculture fuels deforestation for feed, community displacement, antibiotic resistance and up to 20% of global #greenhouse gas emissions. Yet factory farming is only expanding its reach around the globe. 👉🏽 New series by Vox vox.com/future-perfect…

#Coca production has increased in #Colombia since the start of the crop substitution program, as has deforestation. Farmers say they haven’t received the agreed technical or financial support from the government. Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2024/08/colomb…

Soil infertility. Destruction of biodiversity. Dependency on chemical inputs. These are the impacts of AGRA’s model for #agriculture in #africa that farmers and civil society are calling out. thecooperator.news/african-faith-… @cooperatornews #AFSForum2024 #InnovateAccelerateScale

🌳 Residents from Rio de Janeiro planted an agroforestry in 2017. Despite the lack of governmental support, the project is thriving and now offers free #food and #medicines to people in need. #Brazil Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2024/08/rios-g…

New report by Oakland Institute details how decades of environmental conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (#DRC) have failed to address #LandGrabbing and violence against #Indigenous communities. oaklandinstitute.org/abuse-power-en…

“Bill Gates plays God in Africa’s agriculture and gets it wrong”: Mail & Guardian at Africa Food Systems Summit 📷 mg.co.za/africa/2024-09… 📷Simon Allison for The Continent #AFSForum2024

An investigative report by AFSA has exposed how AGRA strategically uses its financial power to embed consultants within government institutions, entrenching industrial agricultural models. ESAFF Uganda GRAIN A Growing Culture Million Belay Read more: witnessradio.org/agras-silent-t…

Hydropower dams are disrupting local communities' traditional ways of life in the #Amazon. With reduced fish stocks and elevated #food prices, many riverines turned to illegal activities to survive. Mongabay youtube.com/watch?v=98b_Co…

"When it comes to reparations, we're not only looking at the monetary but at the restoration of land". — Bishop Takalani AGRA's incentive to #pesticides wreaked havoc on #African farmland. Farmers, faith and civil society leaders call for reparations. 🚨 #AFSForum2024

🚨 AGRA's silent takeover 🚨 #AGRA strategically uses its financial power to embed consultants within government institutions to entrench industrial #agricultural models. Witness Radio - Uganda #AFSForum2024 witnessradio.org/agras-silent-t…

The #GreenRevolution model promoted by #AGRA and Gates Foundation in #Africa pushes farmers into debt and dependency. It's time to stop the harmful effects of their programmes across the continent. Farmers and faith leaders are calling for reparations. #AFSForum2024

"For them, it's about profit and building their incomes". - Mary Sakala 🤑 Despite promises and a fortune invested, AGRA - Sustainably Growing Africa’s Food Systems. and @GatesFoundation programmes in #Africa have failed to reduce hunger. 💸 Farmers, faith and civil society leaders call for reparations.

"In almost 30 years since the introduction of #GMOs, they haven’t solved the problem of #hunger in countries where they have been deployed or in the world. There is no evidence of a country which has eradicated food insecurity using GMOs." Health of Mother Earth homef.org/2024/09/03/bey…

"They're leading us in a kind of agriculture where we can't farm without the use of agrochemicals" - Million Belay #AFSForum2024 ended last week, but the fight for #FoodSovereignty in #Africa not. There are better ways to move forward in the continent. AFSA

#Salmon will be able to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history nears completion. 🐟🐠 ictnews.org/news/after-100…

Essential read 👇 An investigation by shado and Energy Embargo for Palestine highlights the role of BP & the British state in fuelling settlements and the ongoing genocide in #Gaza. shado-mag.com/bp-oil-pipelin…

🌱 Our seed sovereignty is at stake! For generations, Zambian farmers have cultivated crops using traditional seed systems and local knowledge. Now, proposed changes to our Seed and Plant Variety Protection (PVP) laws could undermine their efforts and threaten food security.

Women from coastal villages in #Bangladesh are at the forefront of #mangrove reforestation projects and also creating entrepreneurial opportunities with the mangrove resources. Mongabay news.mongabay.com/2024/08/in-the…

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area has become a global example of “fortress conservation,” when #Indigenous peoples who have been living alongside wildlife for centuries are pushed out of their own territories. New article from Christine Ro for Forbes. forbes.com/sites/christin…