Lurching from food crisis to food crisis
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
There are tonnes of good ideas on the table about how to reshape our food systems – and fleets of social movements eager to take the reins and put them in practice. Perhaps this food crisis can serve to bring movements together to get some serious action going.
Big farms don’t feed the world
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
Numerous studies have shown that small farms are not only more productive per hectare of land, but that they also protect biodiversity better, produce more diverse and more nutritious food, create more jobs and keep more people on the land.
Confronting neoliberalism with feminist climate justice
By Akina Mama wa Afrika, GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
The feminist approach to climate justice therefore demands that governments, civil society, private sector, environmentalists should address the causes and effects of climate change, not as a single issue, but in recognition of the full spectrum of the numerous challenges that communities face
The Real Seed Producers
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
The picture often painted for us is that we need corporate seeds to feed the world: they are alleged to be more efficient, productive and predictable. Locally developed farmer varieties are painted as backwards, less-productive and disease-ridden. But those of us with our feet on the ground know that this is not the reality in Africa.
The Global Farm Land Grab in 2016: How Big, How Bad?
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
From deforestation to fertiliser use, and from factory farms to supermarket shelves, producing, transporting, consuming and wasting food account for around half of all greenhouse gas emissions
The Exxons of Agriculture
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
It goes without saying that oil and coal companies should not have a seat at the policy table for decisions on climate change.
Our seed, our sovereignty – seed law victory in Indonesia
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
Between 2005 and 2010, more than a dozen farmers from Kediri and Nganjuk regencies in East Java were prosecuted after seed companies accused them of stealing seed.