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Using agrofuels to decarbonise the shipping industry is a bad idea. An additional 35 million ha of farmland would be needed to grow vast monocultures of soybean, oil palm and maize to the detriment of small farmers & food sovereignty www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

The Biofuel Sham Could Worsen Global Hunger and Inequality | by Jennifer Clapp & Olivier De Schutter - Project Syndicate

Jennifer Clapp & Olivier De Schutter urge the UN maritime regulator not to encourage the shipping industry to move from one unsustainable fuel to another.

New report by GRAIN & ETC Group on the world’s top 10 agribusiness giants shows extreme concentration in seeds, pesticides, fertilisers, farm machinery, animal drugs & livestock genetics. Get the data here: grain.org/e/7284 @etcgroup.bsky.social @ipes-food.org @corporateeurope.org @civileats.com

Brazil is putting workers’ pensions at risk to fuel agribusiness expansion and perversely tying their interests to land grabbing, deforestation and labour exploitation. ojoioeotrigo.com.br/2025/07/hund... @ojoioeotrigo.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social @organise.bsky.social

Hundreds of Brazil’s biggest pension funds could pour up to US$22.89 billion into agribusiness investments

Despite a track record of financing linked to land grabbing and deforestation, agricultural investment funds, or Fiagros, have been cleared by Brazil’s Monetary Council to receive up to 10% of pension...

« Il faut défendre les semences paysannes face aux nouveaux OGM » : Entretien passionnant (et urgent) avec Marie Océane Fekaïri et Simon Bridonneau du réseau Semences Paysannes
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« Il faut défendre les semences paysannes face aux nouveaux OGM »

Face aux nouvelles technologies génomiques (NGT), les semences paysannes sont une solution trop délaissée pour s'adapter au défi climatique.

Hello Bluesky! GRAIN is a small international collective that works to support farmers & social movements building #foodsovereignty. We’ll be joining Bluesky in January. For those who know us, please let us know what would be useful for us to share here! 👇 Thanks.

During peaceful protests against EU-Mercosur FTA & colonial policies in French overseas territories which the trade deal will exacerbate, 52 La Via Campesina peasants, including their general coordinator Morgan Ody were arrested. We join the call for their release! viacampesina.org/en/2026/01/f...

ALERT: 52 Peasants Arrested in France—La Via Campesina Demands Their Immediate Release

More than 150 peasants from the Confédération Paysanne (Farmers' Confederation) from all over France, including a large delegation from the DROMs, occupied the Ministry of Agriculture..

The Italian energy group Tozzi Green has been active in Madagascar for years, occupying farmland to grow agrofuels, then essential oils and now carbon credits - not without conflict! New note from @reddmonitor.bsky.social: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/land-grab-... @recommon.org @fpanie.bsky.social

Land grab: Tozzi Green’s carbon plantations in Madagascar

“Carbon credits don’t restore what’s been destroyed.”

This is a must-read. It helps us understand what happens when a few farm machinery, fertiliser, seed and pesticide corporations become dominant. It also makes a strong call for people's participation in food system policymaking. @rajpatel.bsky.social‬

Raj Patel @rajpatel.org

Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!

🔥 In this powerful account of land grabs & the weaponisation of hunger in Sudan, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social shows how Sudanese farmers & pastoralists organise to recover territory & build food sovereignty in the midst of devastating conflict: transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

Must-read: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food @michaelfakhri.bsky.social calls out key companies driving corporate concentration in the food system and demands accountability for rights violations. digitallibrary.un.org/record/40872... @fian-international.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social

Irish dairy companies export polluting, ultra-processed, fat-filled milk powder to Senegal, Nigeria, and Ghana. They advertise products that cannot be described as 'milk' in Europe as something healthy and sustainable. New investigation from @desmog.com.web.brid.gy‬: www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

Agroecology is not only a set of practices, it is a
way of knowing, organizing & resisting. Join us in @rightlivelihood.org Intl Conference to explores how knowledge is lived, shared & contested in food systems transformation.
🗓️Monday, 4 May, 8 - 9 AM Pacific Time ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Seed sovereignty is under attack — but resistance is growing. On this global day of action against UPOV, Dec 2, let's continue to defend seed freedom. Together, we can keep seeds in the hands of the people who feed the world. Visit STOPUPOV.ORG and join the movement.
#StopUPOV

Nous avons calculé les « Top 10 des géants de l’agrobusiness ». Les conclusions ?
- Des oligopoles dominent l'amont de la chaîne (semences, pesticides, engrais...)
- Leurs profits sont exorbitants
- Leur expansion vers le numérique et la biotech s’intensifie
grain.org/e/7285
@etcgroup.bsky.social‬

The world’s worst climate polluter, Saudi Aramco, is greenwashing its emissions with Brazilian beef. How? With “carbon farming” schemes peddled by agribusiness corporations. Find out more at grain.org/e/7236

Legal ruling in Kenya delivers huge blow to a #carbonoffset project used by Meta, Netflix, British Airways and others, in a major win for Indigenous communities. Press release from @survivalinternational.org:

Kenya: Landmark court ruling delivers devastating blow to flagship carbon offset project

Two NRT conservancies have no basis in law. Rangers ordered off the territories.

La révolte paysanne contre l'accord UE-Mercosur a porté ses fruits. C'est aussi une victoire pour le climat, car l'accord aurait augmenté de 8,7 millions de tonnes/an les émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans le commerce de juste 8 produits agricoles
www.bilaterals.org/?le-parlemen...
@eurovia.org

Chemical fertilisers are presented as necessary to feed the world. But did you know that they ruin our soils, pollute people’s water & air and push up food prices? The global food system's addiction to chemical fertilisers must be broken! grain.org/e/6903
#GlobalFertilizerDay @afsafrica.bsky.social

The 3rd Global Nyeleni Forum on Food Sovereignty is commencing in Kandy, Sri Lanka with around 600 delegates from 120 countries are participating to discuss solutions and priorities for the future of collective struggle for food sovereignty. ceylontoday.lk/2025/08/30/n...

Trump family-backed golf resort in Vietnam are grabbing over 900 hectares of land that currently currently supports fruit farms. Farmers are offered rice and fistful of dollars as compensation www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Exclusive: Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club

Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just $3,200 and rice provisions in return.

El genocidio en Palestina incluye destruir las tierras de cultivo y aniquilar a los animales. A causa de los ataques de Israel en Gazano quedan granjas avícolas, 97% de las vacas han desaparecido, con casi la totalidad de las ovejas y cabras www.elsaltodiario.com/genocidio/22... @rescop.bsky.social

Los 320.000 menores de cinco años que viven en Gaza corren riesgo de muerte por desnutrición, según la ONU

Más de 20.000 camiones de ayuda humanitaria permanecen varados en Egipto como consecuencia del bloqueo de Israel. La práctica totalidad de los animales utilizados para transporte, ganado y labores agr...

How might Trump’s tariffs and the ensuing trade wars reshape food systems, especially in the global South? Join an @ipes-food.org discussion on this on 3 June.
ipes-food.org/the-new-geop...

THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF FOOD | IPES-Food webinar

Join this IPES-Food webinar on trade wars, hunger, and the case for cooperative self-reliance - 3 June, 14:00 CEST. Register now.

UK government hold public consultation whether or not it will label seeds of new GMOs following the deregulation of new GMOs in 2023. Groups are mobilising public response to challenge this latest threat of GM seeds
www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l...
📸: @landworkersuk.bsky.social

On ne peut pas parler de souveraineté alimentaire sans parler de la distribution de nos aliments. Voir ce nouveau numéro de « Supermarket Watch bulletin » produit par @fian-international.bsky.social, @grain.org et StreetNet International : grain.org/e/7249 @margteixeira.bsky.social

Pas de souveraineté alimentaire tant que la distribution est aux mains des multinationales

Il est évident que la souveraineté alimentaire ne se limite pas à la production alimentaire. Elle dépend aussi de qui produit et comment. Elle implique l'accès à une alimentation abordable, nutritive ...