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'There is a mountain of evidence that both GM #corn and its accompanying herbicides, including #glyphosate , may cause serious health problems.'
Timothy A. Wise on another chapter of the US-Mexico dispute over GM corn.
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AFSA Officially Launches โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐๐โ Campaign To Uphold Farmer Managed Seed Systems (FMSS)
โSeed Is Lifeโ campaign, a significant initiative aimed at promoting Farmer Managed Seed Systems ( #FMSS ) and countering theโฆ
'We are in a new age of hunger', says IPES-Food expert Mamadou Goรฏta for Al Jazeera English.
Last year alone, 281 million people in 59 countries experienced acute food insecurity. We need to act now, supporting farmers and Indigenous peoples.
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๐ฑHaiti's history bears witness to the resistance of its people. Today, faced with a food and security crisis, the Haitian nation calls for a future shaped by its own voices and solutions. #HandsOffHaiti viacampesina.org/en/haiti-anothโฆ Cloc Vรญa Campesina
Communities must have control over their territories and #food producers, not corporations, should set the policies to fight #ClimateChange and gain #sovereignty over their territories and lifes.
๐Carbon markets not only fail to meaningfully store carbon, they also enable further pollution and harm to communities.
Indigenous networks call for a moratorium before it's too late:โก๏ธ grist.org/global-indigenโฆ
By: Maria Parazo Rose grist ๐๐ผHigh Country News Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi
'To reclaim sovereignty over our plates we must look beyond our plates and reshape the #FoodSystem as a whole.'
The new Nyรฉlรฉni newsletter brings a deep dive into processed foods and how they're transforming food systems worldwide. Read at:
nyeleni.org/en/category/neโฆ
This #EarthDay , how protecting indigenous & peasant peoples' rights can help fix #biodiversity crisis and restore nature | our co-chair Lim Li Ching explains
Monocultures have never been a solution to #hunger . On the contrary, they only benefit corporations that push the industrial farming agenda.
Diversification is the key to #FoodSovereignty and also the #environment .
Anthropocene
anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/04/a-landโฆ
How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the #Maasai from the last of their #Serengeti homeland.
โ๏ธ Stephanie McCrummen for The Atlantic
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From seeds to forests to waterways, peasants are guardians of culture, of memory, of heritage.
This Intl. Day of Peasant Struggles, we join La Via Campesina (Official EN) in honouring the resistance of peasants worldwide in their fight for justice and dignity.
viacampesina.org/en/call-to-actโฆ