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Brazil: FIAN condemns recent attacks on Guapoy indigenous community
Protest letter to Brazilian authorities
Nyéléni process: Towards a Global Forum of Food Sovereignty
The Nyeleni International Movement for Food Sovereignty releases its 48 issue
Ukraine war exposes broken and unsustainable global food system
The war in Ukraine is compounding an existing global food crisis and highlights the fragility of corporate-dominated food systems. It underlines the need to support peasant seed systems and small-scale farmers as well as safeguarding the planet’s biodiversity, write FIAN International’s Secretary General Sofia Monsalve and UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri in this op-ed published in The Guardian.
Time for agrarian reforms in line with UN land tenure guidelines
FIAN International joins more than 100 organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, urban communities and civil society, calling on states and the United Nations to enact agrarian reforms and realize the right to land.
FIAN International Annual Report 2021
Opposing the corporate hijack of UN Food Systems Summit and campaigning to phase out pesticides
India: Stop eviction and environmental destruction in Odisha
Since 2005, the rural population in Jagatsinghpur district (Odisha state) has been protesting against environmental destruction and the illegal appropriation of their land for industrial facilities and infrastructure. Following the withdrawal of the South Korean company POSCO, India's Jindal Steel Work is the developer.
Small-scale fishers : Struggles and mobilisations
The Nyeleni International Movement for Food Sovereignty releases its 47 issue
Zambia: Farmers challenge corporate-driven hybrid seeds policy
A government program in Zambia to improve the welfare of peasant farmers is having the opposite effect, worsening malnutrition and driving communities further into poverty.
Benin: Rural communities recover peasant seeds to improve nutrition and livelihoods
In recent years, government policies in Benin have incentivized peasants to shift to production of commercial crops, such as maize, for markets, rather than traditional crops for consumption, which has contributed to increased food insecurity and malnutrition.
Ugandan army must cease violence against fisherfolk on Lake Victoria
In Uganda, the army is brutally targeting communities living from subsistence fishing on Lake Victoria and other lakes to eliminate what the state considers illegal fishing.
How to protect global food policy from corporate capture
In the aftermath of the first United Nations Food Systems Summit, the world is wondering: “What comes next?” We suggest the more important question is “what needs to come first” before another such convening consumes our collective political capital.
FIAN launches Africa right to food and nutrition course for activists
FIAN is launching a new course which helps to equip activists and human rights practitioners with the right knowledge and skills to defend and promote the right to food and nutrition in Africa.