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.
By Arnau Quinquillà, Bruno Palombini Gastal, Katie Sandwell, Transnational Institute
The Farmers Movement in India has inspired millions around the world who are fighting for justice, democracy and solidarity. The farmers held their ground in the face of threats, intimidation and relentless propoganda, and forced the Modi government to repeal the farm bills.
By Nithin Coca, Shareable
Real solutions, such as building an organization like the AMO, require time to build trust and relationships. It also means overcoming the legacy of failed government and nonprofit promises to impoverished communities.
By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance
Providing sufficient access to affordable food for its population is an underpinning prerequisite for any properly functioning society, and given the clear risks posed by the UK’s current heavy reliance on imports, far more domestic – particularly locally based – food production must be established as a matter of urgency, i.e. before people begin to go hungry.
By Nettie Wiebe, Agroecology Now!
But as a matter of fact, in the household and at the community level, it’s very often the case we as women have a very important cultural and spiritual role.
By Lorena Cotza, Ouafa Haddioui, Open Democracy
Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local producers.
By Priscilla Claeys, Jasber Singh, Agroecology Now!
What roles does spirituality play in food sovereignty struggles? To what extent do spirituality and religion support or impede movement building?
By Priscilla Claeys, Matthew Canfield, Jessica Duncan, Agroecology Now!
By replacing multilateralism with multi-stakeholderism, the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is advancing a vision of food systems governance that sets the foundation for stronger corporate influence both of the UN and food systems at large.
By ARC2020 Staff, ARC2020
Beyond our local context, the Food Sovereignty movement provides a global political framework for change based on social justice, solidarity, empowering women and re- organising international trade and economic relations.
By Judy Bankman, YES! magazine
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
By Ali Amouzai, Sylvia Kay, Transnational Institute
As NAFSN highlighted the implications of the viral outbreak for the region, it also considered the crisis to be an opportunity to create an alternative to the current unjust and precarious systems we are living under.
By Sylvia Kay, ARC2020
It is time to rediscover the roots of our resilience by grounding land policy in collective action and democratic forms of land politics. That’s according to a new report led by Transnational Institute. T