In less than seven months from now, the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, among the world’s most diverse and significant gathering of representatives of social and popular organizations and movements worldwide- is set to bring the agenda of a ‘systemic transformation’ back on the table in an emphatic way.
Main ideas taken from the case study “Community Supported Agriculture – blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers, urban and rural, and furthering our commons …
As part of our special February series dedicated to food and human rights, we interviewed Geneviève Savigny, a peasant and the president of the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2024-2025). In this conversation, we discuss the recent formation of this working group and its role in implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).
In this interview, Geneviève Savigny highlights the importance of the new UN working group, the challenges in implementing UNDROP, and the role that peasant movements and the Nyéléni Forum can play in this process.
Women in Lebanon from different backgrounds worked for a year through a series of public workshops and graphic design collectives, where intersectional feminist thought and feminist visual representation were discussed. The result is the captivating Bakura calendar.
In this episode of Charter4Health we address the topic of traditional medicine and ancestral and popular knowledge. Whith Vivian Camacho from Bolivia.
From December 8 to 18, 2024, a delegation from La Via Campesina visited Palestine, in the West Bank. Fanny and Morgan, two farmers from Ardèche and Brittany, members of the Confédération Paysanne in France and part of the delegation, share their travel journal from these ten days in Palestine that transformed their worldview.
The fight against agrotoxics in Paraguay dates back to the arrival of genetically modified soybeans, which came bundled with a technological package. This package includes the use of fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, and other desiccants. Combined with other elements, it has sparked continuous confrontation with the peasant population. While the intensity of this resistance has fluctuated over time, it has been shaped by the economic and political power wielded to impose the agribusiness model in the country. This aggressive model took hold forcefully, displacing entire communities.
In the arid landscapes of East Africa, Sami, a young man returns to his village with his family and a degree in water research. With his wife, Achieng, they share a vision of progress that respects tradition and nurtures the land.
During the 5th People’s Health Assembly (PHA 5) held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in April 2024, the People’s Health Movement (PHM) is raising its voice against the overwhelming control of transnational corporations (TNCs) over the global economy, health, and welfare systems. In a stand against the corporatization, marketization, and colonization of public goods, PHM is spotlighting the dire consequences of corporate dominance, emphasizing the pressing need for systemic change.
That patriarchal, capitalist, colonizing powers are launching renewed terrorist offensives on peoples of the global south. We can only resist them through a collective grassroots and intersectional world view.
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