Category: Feature
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#ForwardOurFuture: Rural People’s Development Agenda
At this Rural Peoples’ Summit, we vow to strengthen our solidarity, grow our movements, and intensify our fight for food, land, and climate justice. The Rural Peoples’ Development Agenda that our organizations and communities put together through the Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice is not simply a list of our demands…
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Profit-driven digitalisation vs. the people-led future of food
This is the last in a three-part article examining how the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and related processes, including the upcoming UN Summit of the Future, preserve and deepen corporate control over food and agriculture–and why rural peoples are pushing back. Along with the climate crisis, the UN’s proposed Global Digital Compact recognises digital…
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Forward Our Future: Rural Peoples’ Pact for Food, Land, and Climate Justice
Declaration adopted at the Forward Our Future: Summit for the Rural Peoples Development Agenda for Food, Land, and Climate Justice held on September 23, 2024 Global monopoly capitalism or imperialism and the neoliberal system are unsustainable, exploitative, and oppressive. It hinders genuine sustainable development and threatens the planet. The Summit of the Future is a…
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Corporate climate crusade conquers food systems
This is the second in a three-part article examining how the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and related processes, including the upcoming UN Summit of the Future, preserve and deepen corporate control over food and agriculture–and why rural peoples are pushing back. The UN Summit of the Future (SOTF) faced criticism when world leaders and…
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Feeding the future? Corporate takeover of food systems
This is the first in a three-part article examining how the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and related processes, including the upcoming UN Summit of the Future, preserve and deepen corporate control over food and agriculture–and why rural peoples are pushing back. Acknowledging that the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs are “badly off track,” the United…
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5 Key Features of Food Crisis
Three global food crises in the last 15 years – each one worse than the last – are not a mere coincidence, but expected byproducts of imperialist policies that enable profiteering from plunder, famines, and destitution especially for the Global South. Today, a compounding poly-crisis of climate emergencies, soaring energy prices, and escalating warmongering among…