GRAIN

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

« 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.

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.

🔥 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...

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...

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.

L'agrobusiness israélien est un des piliers de l'attaque aux systèmes alimentaires palestiniens qui vise le nettoyage ethnique. Ici nous donnons des exemples de la manière dont les entreprises israéliennes exportent leur modèle toxique en Amérique latine. grain.org/e/7344 @cadtm.bsky.social

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

💲Billions are flowing into digital agriculture.
AI. Precision tools. Cloud platforms.
@ipes-food.org new report warns corporate-led digitalisation risks increasing farmer debt & concentrating control over seeds and data.
📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

#HeadInTheCloud

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...

Socfin, the controversial plantation company part-owned by Bolloré, filed a SLAPP lawsuit against European NGOs. Now they are counter-suing. Their story ⤵️
@asso-sherpa.bsky.social @lessoulevements.bsky.social @obsmultinationales.bsky.social @somoamsterdam.bsky.social @dan-mdpt.eurosky.social

CNCD-11.11.11 @cncd.be

Ils ont voulu nous faire taire. Aujourd'hui, nous contre-attaquons. CNCD-11.11.11, FIAN, Humundi et SOS FAIM Luxembourg assignent en justice SOCFIN pour poursuites abusives. 6 ans. 60 000 € de frais. Des centaines d'heures. Aucune condamnation. On porte plainte. Soutien → onnesetairapas.be

El MST cumple 42 años sembrando conciencia y cultivando agroecología en Brasil. De la lucha por la tierra a la soberanía alimentaria, el movimiento impulsa asentamientos como Nueva Esperanza I, donde 63 familias producen alimentos sanos www.pressenza.com/es/2026/02/m... @mst.org.br

Movimiento Sin Tierra: sembrar conciencia y cultivar agroecología

De las ocupaciones de latifundios improductivos a la Escuela Nacional Florestan Fernandes, el Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST)

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
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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...

The Israeli army has just destroyed the seed bank of the Palestinian farmers' organisation, UAWC, in the West Bank. We condemn this latest crime against the Palestinian people and their efforts to defend their food sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with UAWC.
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Israeli Forces Demolish Seed Multiplication Unit of UAWC’s Seed Bank in Hebron | Via Campesina

Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants' Seeds In a grave escalation of its assault on Palestinian agricultural sovereignty, food sovereignty and Indigenous Seed Heritage, Israeli military forces carri...

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.
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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.

📢 Lettre ouverte aux autorités camerounaises après que des villageois défendant leurs terres ont été réprimés par des militaires protégeant la Socapalm (groupe Socfin/Bolloré) farmlandgrab.org/32741 @lessoulevements.bsky.social @asso-sherpa.bsky.social @katiaroux.bsky.social @fpigeaud.bsky.social

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.

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..

4 ONG 🇫🇷 mettent en demeure la Compagnie fruitière, geant du secteur en Europe et en Afrique, pour abus des droits humains et environnementaux chez sa filiale au Cameroun, Plantations du Haut-Penja (PHP)
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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

Palantir's highly controversial AI & surveillance technologies are central to US, Israeli and other military systems. But they're increasingly being used in the food industry, e.g. by meat giant Tyson (sentientmedia.org/tyson-foods-...) and others
(www.agtechnavigator.com/Article/2025...)

How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech

Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?

The industrial food system is pushing us beyond 1.5°C, says @ciel.org. “As other sectors decarbonize, the fossil fuel industry is increasingly turning to petrochemicals — of which agrochemicals account for one-third — as a growth market.” www.ciel.org/feeding-the-...

Feeding the Climate Crisis: How Agrochemicals Undermine 1.5°C - Center for International Environmental Law

The food system alone could push us past 1.5°C. At COP30, leaders must prioritize phasing out fossil-based agrochemicals and supporting agroecology.

Limagrain, la 5ème entreprise mondiale des semences, passera aux mains d’ADQ, un des fonds souverains des Émirats Arabes Unis, dans le but de développer plus d’OGM. ADQ détient déjà 45% de Louis Dreyfus, le trader agricole. api.vilmorincie.com/uploads/FINA... grain.org/e/7285 @infogm.bsky.social