“So That Everyone Can Eat, Produce It Here": Food Sovereignty and Land Reform in Haiti
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June 10, 2010 Huffington Post
By Beverly Bell
Doudou Pierre is on the coordinating committee of the National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security (RENHASSA). He is also a member of the International Coordinating Committee for Food Sovereignty, organized by Vía Campesina, the worldwide coalition of small farmer organizations. In addition, he is a member of the National Peasant Movement of the Papay Congress and the Peasant Movement for Acul du Nord. This week he will be heading North to the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.
Bolivia: Peasants advance agricultural solutions to climate change
(Cochabamba, April 21 2010) The international peasant movement La Via Campesina held a press conference on April 21 at the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The Peoples’ Conference is being held from April 19 thru 22, and was organized by the Bolivian government in order to build an at agenda to combat climate change.
Bolivia: La Via Campesina participates in the inauguration of the Peoples' climate conference
By Isabella Kenfield, Cochabamba, Bolivia
La Via Campesina Press release
(Cochabamba, April 20, 2010) This morning Itelvina Masioli, a Brazilian leader of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina, spoke at the inauguration of the People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Bolivian President Evo Morales was the keynote speaker to the crowd of several thousand.
100+ Groups Join Scientists and Development Experts in Urging Senate to ‘Strip the GM Mandate’ from the Global Food Security Act Controversial language said more likely to feed biotech corporations than the world’s poor
By PANNA, Food First, and African Center for Biosafety
Family Farmers Call for Food Sovereignty
Via Campesina Actions to Mark International Day of Peasant Struggle! on Friday, April 16
For Immediate Release: April 14, 2010
Contact:
John E. Peck, Family Farm Defenders #608-260-0900 or #608-345-3918
Family Farmers Join Urban Consumers to Expose Corporate Control of the Food System -
Call Upon the U.S. Justice Dept. to Take Anti-Trust Action Against Agribusiness Giants
--Fri. April 16th 12:00 Noon - 2:00 pm Informational Leaflet
Board of Trade/ CME Group (141 W. Jackson) in Chicago
--Fri. April 16th 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Local Food Potluck and Food Sovereignty Talk
Messhall (6932 N. Glenwood Ave.) in Chicago
Family Farmers, Consumer Advocates, and Organized Labor to Feds: Bust Up Big Ag
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 2, 2010
12:40 PM
CONTACT: Food Policy & Farm Advocates
David Goodner, Iowa CCI, 515.282.0484, david@iowacci.org
Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now!, 917.968.7369, dave@fooddemocracynow.org
Patty Lovera, Food and Water Watch, 202.683.2465, plover@fwwatch.org
Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition, 202.421.4544, kozer@nffc.net
Food democracy townhall meeting in Ankeny, IA one day prior to the federal anti-trust workshop will push DOJ, USDA, and Congress to bust the trusts and put people before profits
Via Campesina North America calls first public hearing to prepare the presentation of the GM Maize case before international courts
Inauguration of “Transgenic contamination of maize: crime against humanity?”
Delegation (Mexico, United States, Canada) of La Via Campesina, North America Region, upon the occasion of the FAO Conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries.
Small Family Farms in Tropics Can Feed the Hungry and Preserve Biodiversity
ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2010) — Conventional wisdom among many ecologists is that industrial-scale agriculture is the best way to produce lots of food while preserving biodiversity in the world's remaining tropical forests. But two University of Michigan researchers reject that idea and argue that small, family-owned farms may provide a better way to meet both goals.
To the governments and organizations gathered in Montreal on the situation in Haiti
January 25, 2010
The recent tragedy in Haiti shocked the people of the world for its
destructive impact, the environmental and social consequences, and
especially for the loss of human lives. Unfortunately, natural
disasters are not new in that Caribbean country, which was impacted in
2008 by hurricanes Hanna and Ike.
Nor is it the first time we have watched the international community
make pledges of cooperation and assistance to Haiti. We are concerned,
as organizations and social movements and on the basis of permanent
New report highlights tools to fight hunger and fix the food system
OAKLAND, CA: Just weeks after the USDA announced that one in seven Americans would go hungry at some point in 2009, a new report from Food First and the Community Food Security Coalition highlights a useful tool that city, state and local governments can use to fight hunger, diet-related diseases and other symptoms of a failing food system. Food Policy Councils: Lessons Learned is based on an in-depth survey of 48 Food Policy Councils established in North America over the past 30 years, and comes up with some surprising, hopeful stories.