Topic: Agriculture
Understanding COP23: On the international politics of climate change
Article / 7th November 2017The following article is a resource produced by members of Demand Climate Justice to provide background on the global politics of climate change and the upcoming U.N. negotiations in Bonn.
Time to stop big corporations from ruling the world
Article / 25th October 2017Social movements from around the world are in Geneva this week to push the United Nations to adopt a binding treaty on corporations and human rights. Dorothy Guerrero explains why it is a crucial fight for Global Justice Now.
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.
Struggles of La Vía Campesina for agrarian reform and the defense of life, land and territories
Report / 18th October 2017On ‘Food Sovereignty Day’ La Via Campesina launches publication that calls for a massive change in the current agro-food systems
Making the right to development a reality for everyone
Article / 4th October 2017More than 30 years after the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development, business-as-usual will not be sufficient to achieve progress, a United Nations human rights expert has said.
The world’s common humanity and US foreign policy
Article / 28th September 2017'A sensible and effective foreign policy recognizes that our safety and welfare is bound up with the safety and welfare of others around the world.' By Bernie Sanders.
World hunger is on the rise again
Report / 18th September 2017A UN report it reveals that in 2016 the number of chronically undernourished people in the world is estimated to have increased to 815 million, up from 777 million in 2015, although still down from about 900 million in 2000.
Better and different! Transforming food systems through agroecology
Report / 1st August 2017For over half a century the struggle against poverty has been a focus of global rhetoric. Rarely, however, do people ask the most important question: Who is going to fight poverty? This is where the concept of agroecology comes in, based on peasant farming systems - an approach that defends diversity against monoculture, and gives local markets priority over the global market. The following brochure was collaboratively produced by INKOTA-netzwerk, Brot für die Welt, FIAN, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, MISEREOR, Oxfam and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
A world in trouble: drought, war, food, flight
Article / 19th July 2017Climate change is becoming a permanent reality affecting food supplies in many parts of the world, escalating a new international food crisis in 19 countries. As the trend of increasing migratory flows worsens, there is no escape from the need for a rapid reduction in carbon emissions, writes Paul Rogers for openDemocracy.
UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet
Article / 3rd May 2017A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today.