Topic: Agriculture

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WTO is unfit for purpose in an era of multiple crises

Blog / 29th February 2024

A civil society statement to the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi calls for an alternative international trade framework based on food sovereignty.

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Unchecked, unregulated, unaccountable: how big agribusiness corporations get rich amid crisis

Report / 28th February 2023

The 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.

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Envisioning a better world without the WTO

Report / 30th July 2022

The 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.

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Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening?

Blog / 24th September 2021

The UN food summit was hijacked early on by powerful corporate interests – but people are resisting, write Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink.

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Most infants in 91 countries are malnourished, warns Unicef

Report / 22nd September 2021

Only a third of children under two in many developing countries are fed what they need for healthy growth and no progress has been made on improving their nutrition over the past decade.

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Almost one in three globally go hungry during pandemic

Report / 13th July 2021

The 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.

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A unifying framework for food systems transformation

News / 7th July 2021

More 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.

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India just had the biggest protest in world history – will it make a difference?

Blog / 27th December 2020

In 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. 

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"Replacing hunger with malnutrition": Former UN official calls out African Green Revolution

Blog / 26th August 2020

The 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.

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Do not confuse food charity with ‘right to food’, UN expert tells Italians, labelling food system exploitative

News / 7th February 2020

A 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.

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