GMO and GDOs like Crispr Technology
Scientists are urging Kenya’s anti-GMO groups to embrace gene-editing technology to help ensure a more effective and productive agricultural sector. They note the tea industry
What we Fight Against
Natural Resource Grabbing
Rome, Italy, 17 October 2011 – As the 37th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) begins at FAO, civil society organizations (CSO) welcome Saturday’s results of the second round
Free Trade and Peasant Debts
La Via Campesina issues call to mobilise against WTO and Free Trade Agreements
Capitalism
Global Warming which is caused by human activity is rooted in a social and economic system that has a parasitoid relationship to the Earth upon which we live.
False Solutions
Few would deny that agriculture is especially severely affected by climate change and that the right practices contribute to mitigate it, yet expectations of the new climate agreement diverge sharply
Transnational Companies and Agribusiness
Agribusiness Transnational Corporations (TNCs) Create World Food Crisis; Peasants Seize Back Their Rights
Patriarchy
Many Kenyan women are challenging patriarchal power structures. They question stereotyped roles and want to reduce the gender-related inequality that affects even the private sphere of the family.