NEW: The Carbon Con - The world’s biggest companies, from Netflix to Ben & Jerry’s, are pouring billions into an offsetting industry whose climate claims appear increasingly at odds with reality. Our latest with The Guardian and DIE ZEIT source-material.org/vercompanies-c…

.Preeti Jha profiles the Southeast Asian nation, two years on from its military takeover. newint.org/features/2022/…

#OtD 26 Jan 1649 English radical and founder of the Digger movement Gerrard Winstanley completed his text “The New Law of Righteousness” which laid out his plans for occupying the commons during the English civil war. More of his works: libcom.org/tags/gerrard-w…

This is a helpful entry point for students to learn about the corporate capture of the global food system. Educators can use each comic page to elaborate the complexities of what's taking place. fian.org/en/publication…

Who gets to be on the land to grow food has long been determined by narrow logics of enclosure. In this article I ask how groups of people organise themselves on and with the land outside of the lens, language, and relations Agrarian Trust @KulturlandeG futurenatures.org/unsettling-enc…

How are seeds at the centre of the struggle against enclosure? I interviewed Almendra Cremaschi for our series on enclosure and commoning Future Natures We focus on agri-capitalism in Argentina, the appropriation of biocultural biodiversity & combining farmer's knowledge with art 🌾🖌️

JOB ALERT: RA for empirical project on criminalisation of trespass (12mo full time with 1 day a week ringfenced for your own research). Would suit someone post-PhD/MA looking for work and writing up. Spread the word! Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange Streets Kitchen jobs.bcu.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

A 'laudatio' for La Via Campesina (EN) on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary by Jun Borras, reflecting on how it has transformed agrarian and knowledge politics and co-constructed the field of Critical Agrarian Studies! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our short visual explainer on Community Land Trusts. 🏡🌳 🧵(1/7)

Our course session 'Beyond the Capitalist Food System: Cooperatives, Commons Economies and Agroecology Schools' just went online! 📺With Agro-Perma Lab (PL) and La Bolina (ES) - enjoy! youtu.be/AElZlQaH0mQ #agroecology #economies #cooperativism #antiextractivist #agriculture

Women Human Rights Defenders in Burma are making unspeakable sacrifices every day in the fight for democracy and justice. We honour you. We will continue to fight against inequality and discrimination. w/ sisters2sisters.myanmar Thinzar Shunlei Yi 🙌 #IWD2023 youtube.com/watch?v=P4h5y8…

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Our Flagship 50th anniversary issue is online, and freely accessible 🎊✊🏾 🔥 Inside: J. Borras, H. Bernstein, T. M. Li, Ph. McMichael, a special collection on La Via Campesina (Official EN), Casas South manifesto and our editorial introduction. peasantjournal.org/news/flagship-…

Brazil nuts foraged wild by the Kayapó community in the Amazon are now available for sale in the UK via a unique new sustainable trading partnership with ethical pulse retailer Hodmedod's. Journalist Claire Hargreaves finds out more for Wicked Leeks: wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/going…

1/3 Scenes from the ongoing shibadi (caterpillar fungus) search in the northernmost mountains of Kachin, #Myanmar. Every year, hundreds of people, mostly Rawang, search for the fungus, which only grows at high altitudes & is used for medicinal purposes. Photos by Sanlu Ramseng.

This is a really excellent article from Martin Arboleda and Thomas Purcell on the circuits of capital, property regimes, rentierization, and global food systems: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This looks like a great job for anyone wanting to work in opening up access to land for new entrant and first generation land workers

"I was wholly unaware of the tactics these companies used to persuade #farmers that their own #seed was inferior to the new hybrid seed that they could offer them, or about how they patented #indigenous seeds" Wicked Leeks wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/seed-c…

Please see new working paper by our PhD researcher Doi Ra in which she argues against reducing a landscape into a single dimensional issue. Using case study from Myanmar, she argues for going beyond environmentalism, beyond agrarian and local politics. iss.nl/en/media/2023-…

Víctory! The Human Rights Council just adopted a resolution presented by Maira Macdonal creating a follow-up mechanism on #peasants rights, to advance in the implementation of the #UNDROP! La Via Campesina (EN) FIAN International @rosaluxgeneva Fastenaktion HEKS Geneva Academy of IHL and Human Rights