Developments over the last decade have made it possible to advance the human right to land through public international law. Yet, land remains a contentious and unresolved issue for many rural communities and Indigenous Peoples.
The war in Ukraine is causing incredible human suffering, needless loss of life and threatens its people’s right to food and nutrition. Its impact stretches far beyond Ukraine’s borders, compounding an existing global food crisis and underlining the fragility of corporate-dominated food systems.
The war in Ukraine is causing incredible human suffering, needless loss of life and threatens its people’s right to food and nutrition. Its impact stretches far beyond Ukraine’s borders, compounding an existing global food crisis and underlining the fragility of corporate-dominated food systems.
Ahead of International Day of Peasant Struggles on 17 April, FIAN International joins peasants’ movements worldwide to commemorate the 1996 murders of rural workers in a peaceful demonstration in Brasil. We highlight the ongoing oppression of peasants, workers and Indigenous People’s – particularly women, who feed most of the world’s population yet have little say in developing food policies.
Seeds cultivated by peasants and Indigenous Peoples for generations are under attack from corporations via intellectual property laws and biotechnology aimed at expanding corporate control over food.
FIAN International has contributed to a comprehensive new handbook on extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs) for human rights practitioners and scholars.
If the FAO and governments around the world truly want to help end the marginalization of small-scale fishers and their suffering from unequal power relations, they must stop keeping their gates open to corporate interference.
Our food systems are increasingly controlled by a small number of powerful corporations. Corporate control over what we eat and grow undermines the human right to food and nutrition in multiple ways, and leads to hunger and malnutrition. Radical transformation of food systems is more urgent than ever.