Heidelberg/Geneva. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2025 report, launched at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 (UNFSS+4) this week, notes a slight decline in global hunger to 673 million people in 2024. The improvements take place mainly in Latin America and Asia, while Africa and mainly low-income countries remain […]
Twelve States that are part of “The Hague Group” have committed themselves to taking action to end genocide, occupation, and impunity by Israel in Palestine. The right to food must be at the heart of these efforts, as the self-determination and dignity of Palestinians are inseparable from their food sovereignty.
Communities and social movements are at the forefront of building healthy just and sustainable food systems. Yet, achieving the human right to food and nutrition also requires the active commitment of states. The Policies against Hunger Conference in Berlin this week demonstrated just how difficult this is in a time of interconnecting global crises, rising military budgets, and the growing influence of far-right political forces, write Ana Maria Suarez Franco and Philip Seufert.
Natural resource grabbing and increasing land inequality are exacerbating climate change and ecosystem destruction, while undermining the sustainable management of territories by small-scale food providers, Indigenous Peoples and rural communities. In this context, land redistribution is emerging as a fundamental pillar of food sovereignty and sustainable economic models.
More than 20 months into the ongoing genocide committed by Israel, the death toll in Gaza continuously reaches outrageous proportions. Some estimations put the figure at 61,000 people killed and the number of unreported killings is very likely to be much higher. As much as 10 percent of Gaza’s population has been either killed, injured, […]
The accumulation of vast amounts of land by a small group of global corporate landowners is fueling inequality and accelerating the climate crisis, according to a new report which calls for land redistribution and global tax reforms to reverse this dangerous trend.
In the latest edition of Supermarket Watch, FIAN, GRAIN & StreetNet International highlight workers who produce, process and serve food but are persistently overlooked.
The World Food Program has run out of food supplies in the Gaza Strip, as Israel maintains a blockade on all humanitarian aid to the region which is home to over two million people. This situation represents not only a gross abuse of power – the ongoing genocide constitutes an international crime under humanitarian and criminal law and must be stopped.
Today, we join hands with peasants, fisher peoples, landless rural workers, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, and other peoples working in rural areas around the world to mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles.
The Center for Social Concern in Malawi has submitted a parallel report to the UN Human Rights Council, with support from FIAN international, under the Universal Periodic Review mechanism.
Fighting the weaponization of food, supporting fisher peoples, highlighting dangers of digitalized and financialized carbon markets and working for a just transition to agroecology.
The CEDAW Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has recommended the government of Sri Lanka to ensure that rural women have equal rights and access to ownership and control over land and natural as well as economic resources and are equally represented in decision-making processes.