Topic: Agriculture
WTO is unfit for purpose in an era of multiple crises
Blog / 29th February 2024A civil society statement to the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi calls for an alternative international trade framework based on food sovereignty.
Unchecked, unregulated, unaccountable: how big agribusiness corporations get rich amid crisis
Report / 28th February 2023The world’s biggest agribusiness corporations made more in billion-dollar profits since 2020 than the amount that the UN estimates could cover the basic needs of the world’s most vulnerable, a new report has found.
Envisioning a better world without the WTO
Report / 30th July 2022The outcome of the 12th Ministerial Meeting (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a big win for rich countries, but a massive defeat for the global South, explains a dossier by Focus on the Global South.
Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening?
Blog / 24th September 2021The UN food summit was hijacked early on by powerful corporate interests – but people are resisting, write Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink.
Almost one in three globally go hungry during pandemic
Report / 13th July 2021The number of people who did not have enough food to eat rose steeply during the Covid-19 pandemic to include almost a third of the world, according to a new UN report.
A unifying framework for food systems transformation
News / 7th July 2021More than 800 international organizations, NGOs, farming groups and experts call for agroecology, organic, and regenerative agriculture to top the agenda at this year’s UN Food Systems Summit.
India just had the biggest protest in world history – will it make a difference?
Blog / 27th December 2020In late November, what may have been the single largest protest in human history took place in India, as upward of 250 million people around the subcontinent participated in a 24-hour general strike in solidarity with farmers.
"Replacing hunger with malnutrition": Former UN official calls out African Green Revolution
Blog / 26th August 2020The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa is repeating the failed policies of the past and risks pushing back further the struggle against hunger and malnutrition, explains Timothy Wise for IATP.
Do not confuse food charity with ‘right to food’, UN expert tells Italians, labelling food system exploitative
News / 7th February 2020A sophisticated Italian food system is placing a heavy burden on Italy’s workers and farmers, an independent UN human rights expert has concluded, following an 11-day visit to the country that many regard as the world’s food capital.
Eine Einführung in das globale wirtschaftliche Teilen
Report / 16th November 2019In einer zunehmend ungleichen und nicht nachhaltigen Welt müssen die Regierungen dringend die restriktiven politischen und wirtschaftlichen Ideologien der Vergangenheit überwinden und Lösungen finden, die den gemeinsamen Bedürfnissen der Menschen in allen Ländern gerecht werden.