Nitrates are affecting water utilities from California to D.C., and the reason comes down to one major source: Agricultural runoff.

However, rural areas bear the brunt, both in terms of health impact and rising water bills. civileats.com/2024/05/01/acr…

Within the framework of the Conference on Biodiversity, ( #COP16Colombia ) the Cloc Vía Campesina will participate in an alternate space #EcooVida2024 rganized by the Government of Colombia in Cali from October 22 to 26, 2024.

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My conversation with Alex De Waal on the right to food and starvation for EJIL:Talk!, now in writing thedial.world/state-of-the-w…

It’s time for an emancipatory land politics that puts land into the hands of small-scale food producers and places indigenous peoples on centre stage.

Sylvia Kay reflects on the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing: tni.org/en/article/tac…

Law Is Not on the US Side in #GMO Corn Fight With Mexico. The US is getting it wrong repeatedly on trade rules on food safety says Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez (tomalo con take it easy), Professor of Law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University. commondreams.org/opinion/gmo-co…

Please consider donating to the victims and their families after this tragic accident. Any form of support helps, even liking, sharing, or commenting can make a difference. We want to offer as much help as possible to the people impacted by this.
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CAWLS has withdrawn from Congress at McGill University. We refuse to cross or undermine @AMPL/AMPD’s legal picket line. We demand that Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences process refunds for all participants & associations respecting picket lines.

Our annual conference will go ahead independently at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal.

Fraud scandal at 🇨🇩 palmoil company PHC (ex-Unilever) deepens. Govt reps say the Director General paid herself a $3mn bonus without board approval - yet plantation workers are paid around $1/day. farmlandgrab.org/32212 (in French) #DRCongo FIAN Deutschland Oakland Institute

Important legal analysis of flaws in US rebuttal in #Mexico #GMO corn trade dispute. Víctor Suárez Cassandra Garrison Margaret Spiegelman Sharon Treat @Conahcyt_Me Center for Food Safety Friends of the Earth (Action) Imagen Agropecuaria Kennia Velázquez cadwego Karen Hansen-Kuhn Adelita San Vicente NFFC NRHC

Peasants’ Unions in Korea are protesting the sale of imported agricultural products by the local agricultural cooperatives. These protests are intensifying across the South Jeolla Province (Jeollanam-do) all the way from Gwangyang to Yeongam. La Via Campesina South East and East Asia

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New IPES-Food blog calls for urgent #ClimateAction on food systems.

Incremental changes to industrialized #FoodSystems are not enough to avert the climate crisis. We need to restructure food and farming based on agroecology and regenerative approaches. 🌱
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Land grabbing never went away, we just took our eyes off it. Our newly published report by IPES-Food shines the spotlight on the gross green & grey grabs, squeezing small & medium farmers out in favor of land speculation & carbon offsets. For more, see👇🏾 ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…

🚨 CALL FOR INPUT, UN 🇺🇳 STARVATION REPORT 🚨
Deadline: 14 June
My next report, 'Human Rights and Starvation, with an emphasis on the Palestinian People’s Food Sovereignty'

English: ohchr.org/en/calls-for-i…
Spanish: ohchr.org/fr/calls-for-i…
French: ohchr.org/es/calls-for-i…

New report from Union of Concerned Scientists. At the $1 Tn trough of government funding around the food and farm bill, the food and ag sector spends more on lobbying than either defence or oil & gas. ucsusa.org/sites/default/…

⚠️World Bank-supported carbon and biodiversity markets risk increasing dispossession and violence. #GreenWashing ⚖️States must redirect funding to real solutions for environmental justice, such as food sovereignty and agrarian reform.
👉Read the statement t.ly/i1huz

Biotech Winner Takes All. US & Canada trade dispute with Mexico over #GMO corn ban exposes biotech industry agenda. Freedom to contaminate is central to its strategy for achieving an all-biotech food system where companies—rather than farmers—control seeds watershedsentinel.ca/articles/biote…

Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses or dominant worldviews can be voiced, where complexity can get a hearing, and where views that may be offensive to specific groups or individuals can be expressed. Laurie Adkin University of Alberta canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

🚨Global land concentration:

The world's farmland is owned by the few! 1% largest farms control 70% of farmland worldwide. In Latin America it's worse.

Extreme land inequality obstructs sustainable #foodsystems .

Data from our new #LandSqueeze report
➡️ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…

NEW: In blow to Canadian mining companies, Ecuador rejects international arbitration.

Voters in referendum say no to investor-state dispute settlements, which allow foreign investors to sue governments for policies that could weaken their profitability. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

'There are New York Times reporters who've won Pulitzer Prizes that you can see the articles where they're called liars and things that were written by groups that we know got money from Monsanto' — carey gillam ✍️ 📓 talking about taking on #Monsanto indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/taki…