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Food Sovereignty Global: November 2012
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012. Why is agroecology better than industrial agriculture? The image below gives a visual representation of the differences. to see a larger image go to:. Wednesday, 7 November 2012. Sea intrusion takes over 2.6 million acres of fertile land. The community.”. PFF Chairperson Mohammed Ali Shah, who is also the Secretary General of WFFP, urged the Pakistan government to incorporate the recommendations in its Fisheries Policy to adopt mechanism to safeguard our fish reserves. 8220;Wit...
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Food Sovereignty Global: February 2012
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Friday, 24 February 2012. Oral Intervention of FIAN International and La Via Campesina in the 8th session of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. Oral Intervention of FIAN International and La Via Campesina in the 8th session of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. THURSDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2012 14:53. Dear Mr. /Mrs. President,. During an international conference held in the Nyeleni Village in Mali November 2011, we reiterated the Dakkar Appeal signed by over 900 organizations worldwide...
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Food Sovereignty Global: June 2012
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012. Food Sovereignty: grassroots initiative. Movements and organisations push actions to promote change in ways of eating. The following are a few examples, however, of situations mushrooming around the continent, which reflect a number of these challenges. But it’s fair to say that, given the global crisis, the approach to the practical experience is part of what the Brazilian sociologist Boaventura de Souza Santos proposes when he said that “reality is the sum of what e...
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Food Sovereignty Global: October 2012
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012. Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? The biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers—spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, but selling the idea that we need their products to feed the world. But, do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? Can sustainably grown food deliver the quantity and quality we need—today and in the future?
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Food Sovereignty Global: Feeding The World Conference 'missing the boat'
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013. Feeding The World Conference 'missing the boat'. Source: www.aseed.net. The conference 'Feeding the World' will take place on January 30 in the Amsterdam Hilton hotel. At this controversial event organised by magazine The Economist, Dutch princess Máxima is taking the stage together with pesticide multinational Monsanto. Critics label the event as misleading because it promotes industrial agriculture as the solution to solve world hunger. In the report of EEA (the European Env...
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Food Sovereignty Global: March 2012
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012. UN Human Rights Council Exhorted to Defend Peasants’ Rights. GENEVA, Mar. 9, 2012 (IPS) - Decades after peasants’ networks have advocated for a new legal instrument to protect the rights of small farmers to land, seeds, traditional agricultural knowledge and freedom to determine the prices of their production, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) may decide to start drafting a declaration on peasants’ rights next week. It would complement another long-term battle of V...
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Food Sovereignty Global: August 2012
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012. Assembly of the Poor (AOP), member organization of LVC, request the support for their struggle on land and mass action. At this moment the poor farmers who are natives to Bantad Mountain Range in the south of Thailand are under threat of the unexpected attacks by the armed force led by the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department who came to clear cut their plantation under the policy to suppress forest encroachment. Since July, almost 50 hectares of the native...
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Food Sovereignty Global: How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012. How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves. Source: Independent Science News. The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by Sumant Kumar who has a farm of just two hectares in Darveshpura village in the state of Bihar in Northern India. His record yield. SRI-GROWN RICE IN CHINA. Using SRI methods, smallholding farmers in many countries are starting t...
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Food Sovereignty Global: April 2012
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012. Land grabs video protest to World Bank. Leading environmental campaigning organisation Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina have released two videos showing how projects financed by World Bank funds have allegedly led to African land grabs. The videos, posted on YouTube, feature personal stories of how land privatisation and corporate policies backed by the World Bank, have caused Uganda and Mali farmers to lose their land and threaten local communities. In Ugan...
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Food Sovereignty Global: Nyéléni Declaration on Food Sovereignty
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Thursday, 21 March 2013. Nyéléni Declaration on Food Sovereignty. 8220;Every struggle, in any part of the world for food sovereignty. Is our struggle.”. At the World Food Summit in 1996, La Via Campesina (LVC) launched a concept. That both challenged the corporate dominated, market driven model of globalised. Food production and distribution, as well as offering a new paradigm to fight. Hunger and poverty by developing and strengthening local economies. Since. Hunger and poverty and guarantee sustainable...
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