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Victoria contra el acaparamiento internacional de tierras en Argentina reaviva lucha histórica en América Latina
Movimientos populares frenan proyecto de ley que ampliaría la venta de tierras a extranjeros en Argentina, en medio de una ola de conflictos territoriales que atraviesa el continente — de Argentina a ...
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En Argentina, la movilización popular frenó los planes para flexibilizar restricciones a la propiedad extranjera de tierras, en un país donde cerca de 13 millones de ha ya están en manos extranjeras. En Honduras, el pueblo garífuna resiste frente a la llamada Ley Agroindustrial grain.org/e/7411
El gobierno argentino insiste en la adhesión a UPOV 91 buscando fortalecer los derechos de propiedad intelectual de multinacionales como Bayer y Corteva. Se limitan así derechos históricos del campesinado al libre uso e intercambio de sus semillas bichosdecampo.com/ley-de-semil...
Ley de Semillas: Un funcionario de Milei anticipa acuerdos por Instagram frente a una Mesa de Enlace que esta vez no se deja lle
El Instagram personal del presidente del Instituto Nacional de Semillas (INASE), Martín Famulari, es una delicia: si usted se apura
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September 23, 2026 at 4:15 PM
El gobierno argentino insiste en la adhesión a UPOV 91 buscando fortalecer los derechos de propiedad intelectual de multinacionales como Bayer y Corteva. Se limitan así derechos históricos del campesinado al libre uso e intercambio de sus semillas bichosdecampo.com/ley-de-semil...
📢Hundreads of Thai farmers & allies are rallying today in front of Ministry of Agriculture building ahead of the Thai - EU FTA negotiation round demanding the govt not to accede to UPOV 1991 or amend national seed law to conform with it as required in the FTA #StopUPOV #stopseedmonopoly
September 23, 2026 at 11:10 AM
📢Hundreads of Thai farmers & allies are rallying today in front of Ministry of Agriculture building ahead of the Thai - EU FTA negotiation round demanding the govt not to accede to UPOV 1991 or amend national seed law to conform with it as required in the FTA #StopUPOV #stopseedmonopoly
Twiga Foods, a start-up in Kenya that raised US$190mn from WorldBank, Microsoft and others, is facing administration. It aimed to connect farmers with small vendors through a digital platform, but couldn't compete with the efficiency of Kenya's informal food markets.
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The Next Wave: The expensive life of Twiga Foods
Twiga Foods demonstrated that venture capital subsidies can accelerate customer acquisition, but they cannot change unit economics.
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September 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Twiga Foods, a start-up in Kenya that raised US$190mn from WorldBank, Microsoft and others, is facing administration. It aimed to connect farmers with small vendors through a digital platform, but couldn't compete with the efficiency of Kenya's informal food markets.
techcabal.com/2026/09/20/t...
techcabal.com/2026/09/20/t...
Frente al despojo, el racismo y la violencia contra comunidades garífunas y campesinas en Honduras, la unidad y la memoria son urgentes. Los desalojos continúan y, solo en mayo de 2026, al menos 19 personas campesinas fueron asesinadas en el Bajo Aguán www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026...
Unidad ante el despojo y racismo en Honduras
De las idílicas costas del Caribe al Bajo Aguán y hasta Choluteca, los pueblos de Honduras se estremecen, pero se unen para defender la vida frente a proyectos usureros transnacionales. Es una lucha e...
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September 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Frente al despojo, el racismo y la violencia contra comunidades garífunas y campesinas en Honduras, la unidad y la memoria son urgentes. Los desalojos continúan y, solo en mayo de 2026, al menos 19 personas campesinas fueron asesinadas en el Bajo Aguán www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026...
🎯 Nouveau rapport de @foeus.bsky.social documente les plus gros acteurs de la machine agroindustrielle mondiale, et qui les financent, en nous appelant à la démanteler: foodlandmoney.org @lessoulevements.bsky.social
September 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
🎯 Nouveau rapport de @foeus.bsky.social documente les plus gros acteurs de la machine agroindustrielle mondiale, et qui les financent, en nous appelant à la démanteler: foodlandmoney.org @lessoulevements.bsky.social
Defender la tierra no debería costar la vida. En 2025, América Latina concentró 105 de los 124 asesinatos de personas defensoras en el mundo. Colombia (39) y Brasil (26) encabezan una tragedia marcada por el despojo de tierras y el extractivismo. www.farmlandgrab.org/post/33716-a...
América Latina concentró el 85 % de los asesinatos de personas defensoras del territorio y el ambiente en 2025 | INFORME
Segun el informe de Global Witness, Colombia (39) y Brasil (26) concentraron el 52 % de los asesinatos registrados en 2025. Globalmente, las disputas por la tierra y el crimen organizado estuvieron de...
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September 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Defender la tierra no debería costar la vida. En 2025, América Latina concentró 105 de los 124 asesinatos de personas defensoras en el mundo. Colombia (39) y Brasil (26) encabezan una tragedia marcada por el despojo de tierras y el extractivismo. www.farmlandgrab.org/post/33716-a...
Le 3 octobre, une mobilisation internationale aura lieu contre l’entreprise de pesticides Syngenta, en France comme ailleurs. Rejoignons le cortège et faisons convergence avec la lutte des travailleurs agricoles et pour la libération de la Palestine lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/le-3-oc...
September 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Le 3 octobre, une mobilisation internationale aura lieu contre l’entreprise de pesticides Syngenta, en France comme ailleurs. Rejoignons le cortège et faisons convergence avec la lutte des travailleurs agricoles et pour la libération de la Palestine lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/le-3-oc...
EU farm subsidiaries should not be paid to the UAE's sovereign wealth fund, ADQ, which runs large farms in Spain and Romania, say European peasant groups. They demand an audit from the European Court of Auditors and call for a change of rules. www.eurovia.org/press-releas... @eurovia.org
September 21, 2026 at 7:05 AM
EU farm subsidiaries should not be paid to the UAE's sovereign wealth fund, ADQ, which runs large farms in Spain and Romania, say European peasant groups. They demand an audit from the European Court of Auditors and call for a change of rules. www.eurovia.org/press-releas... @eurovia.org
Pakistan is building a national AgriStack platform to digitise farmers' land, soil, crop and water data. Also called PAKGROW, it will be coordinated by the military. The goal is to scale up exports of agricultural produce, especially to Gulf States. milkiyat.com/articles/pak...
Pakistan to Digitise Agricultural Land… | Milkiyat.com
Pakistan is advancing AgriStack to digitise agricultural land records, link verified farmer identities, and improve ownership transparency, subsidies, credit, a
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September 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Pakistan is building a national AgriStack platform to digitise farmers' land, soil, crop and water data. Also called PAKGROW, it will be coordinated by the military. The goal is to scale up exports of agricultural produce, especially to Gulf States. milkiyat.com/articles/pak...
UN Working Group on the rights of peasants urged countries to refrain from implementing UPOV 1991 in ways which contravene the rights of peasants, repeal provisions criminalising peasant seed practices, and exempt traditional seed systems from industrial-market rules. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Penalising peasant seed systems threatens global food supply: UN experts
GENEVA – Farmers across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America face fines and imprisonment for saving, exchanging and selling seed under laws written for industrial seed markets, the UN Working Group ...
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September 18, 2026 at 9:35 AM
UN Working Group on the rights of peasants urged countries to refrain from implementing UPOV 1991 in ways which contravene the rights of peasants, repeal provisions criminalising peasant seed practices, and exempt traditional seed systems from industrial-market rules. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
The Milei govt in Argentina has a problem. It can't revise the country's seed law to force farmers to pay for their own farm-saved seeds, as part of joining UPOV1991 & pushed by Trump, due to social opposition. So it asks the seed industry to draft a new law itself. bichosdecampo.com/ley-de-semil...
Ley de Semillas: Un funcionario de Milei anticipa acuerdos por Instagram frente a una Mesa de Enlace que esta vez no se deja lle
El Instagram personal del presidente del Instituto Nacional de Semillas (INASE), Martín Famulari, es una delicia: si usted se apura
bichosdecampo.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:15 PM
The Milei govt in Argentina has a problem. It can't revise the country's seed law to force farmers to pay for their own farm-saved seeds, as part of joining UPOV1991 & pushed by Trump, due to social opposition. So it asks the seed industry to draft a new law itself. bichosdecampo.com/ley-de-semil...
🤚🏽STOP INDUSTRIAL TREE PLANTATIONS!!!
21 September, International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day to celebrate resistance against industrial tree plantations that has invade territories & affects people's life
See more information here: www.wrm.org.uy/21-september
21 September, International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day to celebrate resistance against industrial tree plantations that has invade territories & affects people's life
See more information here: www.wrm.org.uy/21-september
September 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🤚🏽STOP INDUSTRIAL TREE PLANTATIONS!!!
21 September, International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day to celebrate resistance against industrial tree plantations that has invade territories & affects people's life
See more information here: www.wrm.org.uy/21-september
21 September, International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day to celebrate resistance against industrial tree plantations that has invade territories & affects people's life
See more information here: www.wrm.org.uy/21-september
In 2025, 124 people were murdered for bravely speaking out or taking action to defend their rights to land and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment with majority of killings occured in Latin America according to new report by @globalwitness.org globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Collective power: The struggle for protection for land and environmental defenders
In 2025, Global Witness documented 124 land and environmental defenders were killed for protecting their land, territories, natural resources and communities
globalwitness.org
September 17, 2026 at 8:20 AM
In 2025, 124 people were murdered for bravely speaking out or taking action to defend their rights to land and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment with majority of killings occured in Latin America according to new report by @globalwitness.org globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
UN special rapporteur warns that carbon markets fail to meet international climate & human rights obligations. New report calls out carbon land deals that violate Indigenous peoples and peasants rights: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
See also: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-special...
See also: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-special...
A/81/217: Rethinking carbon credits according to climate and human rights obligations
SummaryIn the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, Elisa Morgera, identifies structural misalignments between carbon...
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September 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
UN special rapporteur warns that carbon markets fail to meet international climate & human rights obligations. New report calls out carbon land deals that violate Indigenous peoples and peasants rights: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
See also: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-special...
See also: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-special...
📢 No Toxic Future: Global action against Syngenta! On 3 Oct let's unite to expose the devastating impacts of Syngenta and agrochemical industry. A mass action will also happen at its production site in Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne, France. Join the action! stop-syngenta3oct.com/poisoner-wit...
September 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
📢 No Toxic Future: Global action against Syngenta! On 3 Oct let's unite to expose the devastating impacts of Syngenta and agrochemical industry. A mass action will also happen at its production site in Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne, France. Join the action! stop-syngenta3oct.com/poisoner-wit...
⚠️ Honduras Solidarity Network and Rights Action, among others, are urgently raising funds to support the Garífuna people who are fighting a new law in Honduras which will displace them and grab their lands for agribusiness, tourism and other projects. Pls support: mailchi.mp/rightsaction...
September 16, 2026 at 7:25 AM
⚠️ Honduras Solidarity Network and Rights Action, among others, are urgently raising funds to support the Garífuna people who are fighting a new law in Honduras which will displace them and grab their lands for agribusiness, tourism and other projects. Pls support: mailchi.mp/rightsaction...
New publication from Ibon on the global trade system explains what’s happening with the WTO, governments’ rising use of sanctions, and new imposed partnerships to extract strategic resources from the global South. iboninternational.org/download/the...
September 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM
New publication from Ibon on the global trade system explains what’s happening with the WTO, governments’ rising use of sanctions, and new imposed partnerships to extract strategic resources from the global South. iboninternational.org/download/the...
Pour La Via Campesina de la Région Arabe et d’Afrique du nord, l’avenir de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation se jouera sur qui détient le pouvoir de décision concernant la terre, l’eau, les semences et les politiques agricoles.
viacampesina.org/fr/region-ar...
viacampesina.org/fr/region-ar...
Région Arabe et d'Afrique du nord: la souveraineté sur la terre, l’eau et les semences avant l’augmentation de la production
La rencontre de la région arabe et d’Afrique du Nord, organisée à Tunis, a placé l’agriculture écologique au cœur d’un combat politique autour d’une question essentielle : qui décide de l’avenir alime...
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September 14, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Pour La Via Campesina de la Région Arabe et d’Afrique du nord, l’avenir de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation se jouera sur qui détient le pouvoir de décision concernant la terre, l’eau, les semences et les politiques agricoles.
viacampesina.org/fr/region-ar...
viacampesina.org/fr/region-ar...
Sur tous les fronts – agriculture, tourisme, terres rares, crédits carbone... – les communautés malgaches sont sous la pression des investisseurs fonciers soutenus par l'État.
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Madagascar, de gros investissements bien peu écologiques
À Madagascar, la contestation contre certains grands projets d'investissement prend de l'ampleur. Du nord-ouest au sud-est de l'île, des communautés rurales, soutenues par des organisations de la soci...
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September 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Sur tous les fronts – agriculture, tourisme, terres rares, crédits carbone... – les communautés malgaches sont sous la pression des investisseurs fonciers soutenus par l'État.
mondafrique.com/politique/ma... @collectiftany.bsky.social @wominafrica.bsky.social
mondafrique.com/politique/ma... @collectiftany.bsky.social @wominafrica.bsky.social
European farmers movement ECVC said that the ban that EU has put to fish and animal products import from Brazil will not change the structural impacts of the EU - Mercosur trade deal and demand an end to it all together. viacampesina.org/en/2026/09/e... @viacampesinaeu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Europe: Temporary ban on Brazilian meat and honey highlights EU-Mercosur risks, says ECVC
The provisional application of the EU-Mercosur FTA without a vote from the European Parliament remains a democratic scandal.
viacampesina.org
September 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
European farmers movement ECVC said that the ban that EU has put to fish and animal products import from Brazil will not change the structural impacts of the EU - Mercosur trade deal and demand an end to it all together. viacampesina.org/en/2026/09/e... @viacampesinaeu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Canada’s free trade deal with Israel treats Palestinian land as “Israeli” and rewards illegal settlements. Send an email to PM Carney, Minister Anand, and Minister Sidhu and tell them to cancel CIFTA and cut trade ties with Israeli apartheid: www.cjpme.org/cancel_cifta
September 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Canada’s free trade deal with Israel treats Palestinian land as “Israeli” and rewards illegal settlements. Send an email to PM Carney, Minister Anand, and Minister Sidhu and tell them to cancel CIFTA and cut trade ties with Israeli apartheid: www.cjpme.org/cancel_cifta
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Smallholder farmers were excluded from the consultative process for the East African Community Seed and Plant Varieties Bill, 2025: CSOs across the EAC call for a time extension and greater inclusion of smallholder farmers in shaping the bill. Readmore: radio.witnessradio.org/smallholder-fa
September 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Smallholder farmers were excluded from the consultative process for the East African Community Seed and Plant Varieties Bill, 2025: CSOs across the EAC call for a time extension and greater inclusion of smallholder farmers in shaping the bill. Readmore: radio.witnessradio.org/smallholder-fa
✊ Une soixantaine d'associations se sont récemment réunies au Bénin pour lancer une campagne visant à protéger les poulets indigènes élevés par les communautés locales pour la souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique. Lire leur déclaration et rapport : grain.org/e/7412
September 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
✊ Une soixantaine d'associations se sont récemment réunies au Bénin pour lancer une campagne visant à protéger les poulets indigènes élevés par les communautés locales pour la souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique. Lire leur déclaration et rapport : grain.org/e/7412
La Federación Nacional Campesina de Paraguay condena el asesinato por la policía de un líder indígena y un profesor de la comunidad Ava Guaraní Tekoha Y’apo. En el país, las comunidades indígenas y campesinas están cada vez más criminalizadas viacampesina.org/es/paraguay-...
Paraguay: FNC condena asesinatos y denuncia creciente criminalización a comunidades indígenas y campesinas
La Federación Nacional Campesina manifiesta preocupación por la creciente criminalización y persecución a comunidades indígenas y asentamientos campesinos.
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September 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
La Federación Nacional Campesina de Paraguay condena el asesinato por la policía de un líder indígena y un profesor de la comunidad Ava Guaraní Tekoha Y’apo. En el país, las comunidades indígenas y campesinas están cada vez más criminalizadas viacampesina.org/es/paraguay-...
60 groups recently met in Benin to set up a campaign to protect indigenous chickens in the hands of local communities in Africa. Industrial poultry are invading Africa and replacing local breeds. Time to uphold local chickens for food sovereignty! Statement & report: grain.org/e/7413
September 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
60 groups recently met in Benin to set up a campaign to protect indigenous chickens in the hands of local communities in Africa. Industrial poultry are invading Africa and replacing local breeds. Time to uphold local chickens for food sovereignty! Statement & report: grain.org/e/7413