Hands On The Land Campaign Kickoff
An alliance of 16 European organisations, including peasant movements, environmental, and human rights groups presented today ‘Hands on the Land for Food Sovereignty’.
Read More »Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology
The recent Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology is one of the key reference documents for the Hands on the Land Alliance when it comes to defining food sovereignty and …
Read More »Opposing Milan Charter, rejecting corporate rule
Under the watchful eye of corporations, the ‘cultural legacy’ of the EXPO 2015 ignores international human rights law and the right to adequate food and nutrition.
Read More »The State of Land in Europe
While the overall amount of agricultural land in Europe is shrinking, it is also becoming increasingly concentrated in a few large landholdings and in the hands of relatively few big …
Read More »Investing in Agricultural Alternatives
The publication ‘Policy Shift’ identifies ten key policy changes that are required to support just alternative agriculture investments. The approach integrates human rights into the core of decision-making and is …
Read More »The Right to Food – A Peoples’ Struggle
This video includes interviews with representatives from social movements, civil society organisations and government. The film portrays people as rights-holders with a crucial power and role to claim their human …
Read More »Seeds of Discontent
In the northern province of Niassa, Mozambique, one company, Chikweti, set up with investments by Swedish and Norwegian churches and the Dutch pension fund, ABP is establishing large tree plantations. …
Read More »Water and Sanitation as a Human Right in the Post-2015 Framework
FIAN International joins the sign-on call to ensure the right to water and sanitation is not neglected in the sustainable development agenda.
Read More »Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe
Land issues are rarely considered to be a problem for Europeans, or cause for people’s struggles in Europe today, as it is elsewhere in the world – at least in the …
Read More »International Day of Peasants’ Struggles against TTIP
‘Instead of a gloomy future based on free trade and big business, La Via Campesina believes the time has come for an economy based on equity that will restore the …
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