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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 24-26, 2010
Final Report (Food Sovereignty)
Civil Society Consultation on FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Land and Natural Resources Tenure
Thursday 8 July 2010
Background
The Asian Regional Civil Society Consultation provided an opportunity for different constituencies to contribute in the FAO’s process of coming up with Voluntary Guidelines that provides a framework for governments and other interest groups on responsible land and resource (...) > continue
The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 2 (Food Sovereignty)
by Anna Isaacs, Basil Weiner, Grace Bell, Courtney Frantz and Katie Bowen
Tuesday 16 February 2010
During his expeditions with INIA Basil saw the work of rural communal councils. Through their communal councils, many agricultural villages and towns are organizing to develop transportation infrastructure in order to make production economically viable. Since isolation can threaten food (...) > continue
The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 1 (Food Sovereignty)
by Anna Isaacs, Basil Weiner, Grace Bell, Courtney Frantz and Katie Bowen
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Viral times - The politics of emerging global animal diseases (Food Sovereignty)
Monday 10 August 2009
The world is in the midst of big changes with respect to global animal diseases. We are heading for more diseases, more deadly types of disease, and more capacity for these diseases to spread. There is also a greater probability of the emergence of zoonotic diseases and global pandemics.Yet the (...) > continue
Fixing our Global Food System (Food Sovereignty)
Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Peter Rosset resides in Chiapas, Mexico, where he is a researcher for the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM), and co-coordinates the Land Research Action Network (http://www.landaction.org). He is also part of the technical support team of La Vía Campesina, the global (...) > continue
The Campesino Struggle for Sustainable Agriculture in Paraguay
Saying No to Soy (Food Sovereignty)
April Howard
Monday 29 June 2009
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Agrofuels, Food Sovereignty, and the Contemporary Food Crisis (Food Sovereignty)
Peter Rosset, Center for the Study of Rural Change, Ceccam, Mexico
Monday 29 June 2009
In this article, agrofuels are examined in the context of the world food price crisis and the “food sovereignty” pro- posal for addressing the crisis. Both short- and long-term causes of the crisis are examined, and while agrofuels are presently not a prime causal factor they are clearly (...) > continue
New land grab website (Food Sovereignty)
Wednesday 3 June 2009
The Statute of Rural Renewal puts Taiwan’s Farmers in red alert (Food Sovereignty)
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Activists against the Statute of Rural Renewal, Taiwan, are constantly on the alert to prevent the Kuomintang (KMT) from forcing through the statute in the Legislative Yuan. > continue
The Avery Diet: The Hudson Institute’s Misinformation Campaign Against Cuban Agriculture (Food Sovereignty)
Friday 22 May 2009
Fernando Funes Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (ACTAF)
Miguel A Altieri President, Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA) (www.agroeco.org/socla)
Peter Rosset Co-coordinator, Land Research Action Network (...) > continue
