Topic: Agriculture
We need biodiversity-based agriculture to solve the climate crisis
Article / 4th October 2019Regenerating the planet through biodiversity-based ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species and all beings. It is not just a climate solution, but also a path to eradicating world hunger, explains Dr. Vandana Shiva.
World hunger is on the rise
Blog / 25th July 2019The world already grows more than enough food to feed the world population. Why then do we keep getting it so wrong, acting like growing more commodity crops will end hunger? By Timothy A. Wise.
Global Peasant Declaration represents huge advance for human rights
Article / 24th December 2018Seventy percent of the world’s population is fed by small-scale producers. These producers, however, face an onslaught of threats related to economic globalisation.
Our food systems are collapsing and the alternative of agroecology has become a survival imperative
Report / 5th December 2018Dr. Vandana Shiva presents in the report The Future of Our Daily Bread: Regeneration or Collapse new evidence on the imminent collapse of our food systems if we continue on the path of industrial agriculture.
Global food system is broken, say world’s science academies
Report / 29th November 2018The global food system is broken, leaving billions of people either underfed or overweight and driving the planet towards climate catastrophe, according to 130 national academies of science and medicine across the world.
United Nations: Third committee approves the UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
News / 26th November 2018The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
Declaration on the rights of peasants awaiting final voting and adoption
News / 17th August 2018After ten long years of negotiations in Geneva, a ‘United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas’ is now at the point of being finalised.
Toward a sustainable wellbeing economy
Blog / 13th June 2018The new Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WE-All) is designed to help facilitate a transformation to an economy that meets all fundamental needs within planetary biophysical boundaries. By Robert Costanza et al.
Farming for a small planet
Article / 2nd February 2018What model of farming can end nutritional deprivation while restoring and conserving food-growing resources for our progeny? The answer lies in the emergent model of agroecology, often called “organic” or ecological agriculture, writes Frances Moore Lappé.
Hunger in Africa, land of plenty
Article / 18th October 2017Globally, 108 million people faced food crises in 2016, compared to about 80 million in 2015 – an increase of 35%, according to the 2017 Global Report on Food Crises. Another 123 million people were ‘stressed’, contributing to around 230 million such food insecure people in 2016, of whom 72% were in Africa.