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TODAY: Join the global webinar to keep #AllEyesOnGaza. Hear Palestinian voices narrate the systematic uprooting of the foundations of their #FoodSovereignty and the deliberate destruction of any future potential for economic independence.
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📢How does digitalisation affect a just food system? Read ECVC's 25 recommendations to ensure that digitalisation in agriculture doesn't reinforce corporate power or exacerbate existing inequalities but rather advances food sovereignty and security! 👉eurovia.org/publications/ecv…
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Mpofu said if agroecology is understood and practised by every woman and supportive men, Zimbabwe, Africa and the world would have good food that could ensure a healthy people.
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A picture is worth a thousand words📷👨🌾
🙌Yesterday #ECVC members took to the Belgian streets, together with thousands of citizens, in the fight for #ClimateAction. 🌍
What does this fight involve? Policy coherence and ending toxic free trade agreements. #BackToTheClimate
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As heads of state and ministers meet for @UNBiodiversity’s High-Level Segment a reminder that we need a truly effective #post2020 global #biodiversity framework not just meaningless declarations from those in power. Our analysis still holds true 👉
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This is classic corporate greenwashing @guardianeco, as corporates push harmful offsetting strategies. Business must be regulated & accountable to government, not the other way round. We can't let corporations jeopardise an effective @UNBiodiversity plan.
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As development banks gather in Rome for their annual summit, join groups from around the world to demand they stop bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture and the corporate control of the food system. Sign the statement: tinyurl.com/3wbjzk2h 📷@ETC_group
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[SIDE EVENT] Today, the CSM Youth constituency will share its demands to governments & the intl community to urgently respond w/ holistic solutions to the intersecting crises that youth face. Join us👉us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
#CFS49 #COVID19 #ClimateJustice #FoodSystems4People
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#LaViaCampesina October 16th Official Poster now available. #NoFutureWithoutFoodSovereignty #FoodSovereigntyNOW #16Oct Globalize the Struggle, Globalize Hope
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How land inequality propels global inequality. Join the session ''Uneven Ground: The land inequality crisis'' @LANDacademy annual conference #LANDac2021 #LandRights #LandGovernance
@landcoalition @landportal
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Seed is not just our sustenance. Seed is our culture, our heritage.
Listen to Mary Sakala as she explains her relationship to seed and explains the importance of resisting dependency and maintaining self-sufficiency.
Join us on #SeedIsPower RALLY: bit.ly/SEED-IS-POWER
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From Kenya to Sudan and Ghana to Senegal, meet four rebel chefs that are decolonizing the ingredients used in their kitchens
‘We have been manipulated by many corporations and powers that have confused how we view food, what and how we consume,’ says @chefkabui, who regrets the way colonization erased much of Kenya’s own complex and diverse food culture. newint.org/immersive/2021/03… #decolonizeyourdiet
ALT Njathi Kabui, a celebrated organic chef who doubles up as an activist and speaker. Credit: Njathi Kabui.
ALT One of chef Njathi Kabui's events. Chef Kabui is also is setting up a library dedicated to black food history in rural Kenya. Credit: Njathi Kabui.
ALT One of chef Njathi Kabui's events. Chef Kabui is also is setting up a library dedicated to black food history in rural Kenya. Credit: Njathi Kabui.
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Seed is life.
Seed is culture.
Seed is resistance.
SEED IS POWER.
Join us on June 26th for a day-long rally in honor of #African seed.
Celebrate, learn, and unite with us for African seed sovereignty.
JOIN THE RALLY HERE: bit.ly/3gToVEi
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#Biopiracy happens all the time. This is why #seedsovereignty is so important: it gives farmers and communities agency over their seed systems so they are better able to fight against forces like biopiracy.
#SEEDISPOWER #FoodSovereignty
#NoPatentOnLife
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This article from two years ago is still very relevant today. The predominant input-intensive approach to agricultural development can hardly claim the successes of #agroecology.
Don't let @BillGates reduce innovation to proprietary tech: "Agroecological sciences offer the innovations small-scale farmers need to increase soil fertility, raise productivity, improve food & nutrition security, and build climate resilience." foodtank.com/news/2019/07/op… @CSM4CFS
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“For a long time, those in power have trampled over farmers’ dignity. We are not going to remain silent again. Over 350,000 farmers have taken their lives in desperation since 1995. Several million among us are bogged down by debt and are in despair. ... "
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#NoFutureWithoutFoodSovereignty This year, we celebrate 25 years of peasant-led efforts for food sovereignty & against the capitalist model. We share our first official poster in a series that will explore different dimensions of Food Sovereignty
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La Via Campesina calls on our 181 member organizations and our entire community of allied organizations and movements, to join firmly and commit to the @BDSmovement in order to end Israeli Apartheid and its war crimes. viacampesina.org/en/solidari…
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This video tells the story of the long struggle of the Gloria Quintanilla Women’s Cooperative in the community of Santa Julia (south of capital city Managua). viacampesina.org/en/nicaragu…