CLIMATE SUMMIT IN CANCUN NOV-DEC 2010 - HELP THOUSANDS OF PEASANTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES MAKE OUR VOICE HEARD
An appeal from Via Campesina:
We are peasants, family farmers and indigenous peoples from Mexico and the world.
* Our sustainable farming practices cool the planet
* We defend the Mother Earth
* Help us say NO to false solutions to climate change!
We ask to you support a massive presence of peasants, family farmers and indigenous peoples from Mexico and the world at the Climate Change Summit (COP-16) to be held in Cancun, Mexico, from November 29 to December 10, 2010.
Women united for food sovereignty and against violence towards women
Report by Via Campesina
In Maputo, Mozambique, on the occasion of the international seminar on building alliances for food sovereignty and against violence towards women held in Maputo from July 26 to 29, La Via Campesina worked together with World March of Women (WMW), Friends of the Earth Intenational (FoEI) and women of the countryside from Asia and Africa and shared our ideas to plan our work on women.
Watch Me Grow - Three year olds gardening
Food First Fellow Raj Patel speaking on creating democracy in the food system
Food Sovereignty Tours To Bolivia, Mali/Senegal, and the Spanish and French regions of the Basque Country
These tours, offered jointly by Food First and Global Exchange, give you a front row seat into how farmers in diverse cultures are building local food sovereignty.
Dig Deep Farms is pioneering CSA farming as local community development
Dig Deep Farms... Building the Community from the Roots
Lula Allen, finance coordinator explains the weekly CSA distribution program
By Leonor Hurtado
It’s a nice sunny morning in Alameda County. A bright sign “Dig Deep Farms... building the community from the roots” and a beautiful green background provokes our interest. Walking through the paths and observing the growing tomatoes, lettuce, corn and other vigorous vegetables we meet Hank Herrera, project manager.
“FOR A BETTER LIFE FOR THE PEASANTS”: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND LAND REFORM IN HAITI (PART II)
By Beverly Bell
July 15, 2010
Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti) is one of Haiti’s two national peasant farmer movements. The oldest peasant group in Haiti, it was born in 1970 under the Duvalier dictatorship.
The fight over food deserts: Corporate America smacks its way down
Huffington Post - July 14, 2010
By Eric Holt-Giménez with Annie Shattuck and Zoe Brent
This June the City of Chicago approved Wal-Mart's bid to open up dozens of new facilities, beginning with grocery stores in the city's chronically underserved South side. Just a month earlier the company committed $2 billion dollars to fight hunger in the U.S. But behind the high profile donations is a decidedly less charitable story repeating itself throughout corporate America.
Food Sovereignty Chronicles II
From Food Justice to Food Sovereignty
By Eric Holt-Giménez
I spent most of my time at the US Social Forum between the huge COBO center where many of the workshops were held and the "tent village" where U.S. Food Justice groups and Food Sovereignty movements from Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua met to hammer out the next steps in building a local-global food movement strong enough to transform our current food systems.
Haiti: an occupied food system