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“We used to have land grabs. Now we are having carbon grabs,” the head of the African Development Bank says, arguing that African governments should be paid more for these deals! www.ft.com/content/0468... @afsafrica.bsky.social @wominafrica.bsky.social @powershiftafrica.bsky.social

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📅 Lundi 7 Avril 2025 🕑 17h00 📍Place du Luxembourg (Parlement Européen Bruxelles) 📢 Mobilisation ☣️ Stop #NewGMOs #StopNouveauxOGM #StopOGM 📅 Monday 7 April 2025 🕑 17h00 📍Place du Luxembourg (European Parliament Brussels) 📢 Mobilisation ☣️ Stop #NewGMOs #StopNewGMO #StopGMO

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Francisca Fernández del Movimiento por el Agua y los Territorios (MAT) de Chile: "El agua, las semillas y la energía no deben ser propiedad de nadie. Son esenciales para la vida y deben ser gestionados por los pueblos." agenciatierraviva.com.ar/el-agua-las-...

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AGRA, the Green Revolution institute set up by the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, now works in 13 African countries "aligning seed laws with its mission for Africa to feed itself and the world. But what does that actually mean in practice?" asks @theguardian.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO3-...

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Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista is eyeing a megaproject to plant 70,000 ha with a special variety of sugarcane for aviation fuel with funding from the UAE. www.farmlandgrab.org/32743

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México prohíbe el maíz transgénico oficialmente. La presidenta mexicana firmó el decreto para proteger las variedades nativas de maíz y como respuesta a el fallo del TMEC que favorecía al agronegocio de Estados Unidos www.agronewscastillayleon.com/mexico-maiz-...

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Swiss Re continues to provide agricultural insurance to Brazilian farms steeped in land conflicts and deforestation, says @reporterbrasil.org.br reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/03/swis... @eccjorg.bsky.social @publiceye.ch

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@apnews.com : ‘I bought their dream': How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust - vital read from Jack Thompson on impact of #AfricanAgriculture’s land grab. apnews.com/article/clim... @mittaloak.bsky.social @grain.org @acurrier.bsky.social

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UK government hold public consultation whether or not it will label seeds of new GMOs following the deregulation of new GMOs in 2023. Groups are mobilising public response to challenge this latest threat of GM seeds www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... 📸: @landworkersuk.bsky.social

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El gigante de las cripto Tether toma control de Adecoagro y sus 210.400 ha de tierras de cultivo en Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay. También está comprando acciones de Bioceres, el polémico productor de trigo HB4 transgénico farmlandgrab.org/32734

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For Indigenous communities, the ability to save and exchange seeds is an assertion of sovereignty. It is a powerful act of reclamation and resilience, of Indigenous wisdom that industrial and colonial agricultural systems have suppressed.forgeproject.com/forging/the-... 📸: Amy June Breesman.

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Desde India a Uganda y México, las mujeres rurales revelan las diversas formas de adversidad con la que tienen que luchar y su resiliencia para resistir a la agricultura industrial. ¡Escucha sus voces! grain.org/e/7262

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📢 Lettre ouverte aux autorités camerounaises après que des villageois défendant leurs terres ont été réprimés par des militaires protégeant la Socapalm (groupe Socfin/Bolloré) farmlandgrab.org/32741 @lessoulevements.bsky.social @asso-sherpa.bsky.social @katiaroux.bsky.social @fpigeaud.bsky.social

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🚨 Open letter to the authorities of Cameroon after villagers defending their land face crackdown from military & police protecting the Socapalm oil palm company (Socfin/Bolloré): farmlandgrab.org/32742 @fian-international.bsky.social @rightsindevt.bsky.social @business-humanrights.org

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La lutte pour la souveraineté alimentaire défie à la fois l’agrobusiness et le #patriarcat. Souvent en première ligne, les femmes rurales partagent leurs expériences de résistance : grain.org/e/7263 #8M @ViaCampesina.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Google, Meta and Microsoft are looking for more and more prime US #farmland (and water) to set up data centres - some of them larger than 1,000 acres (400 ha). tristatealert.com/exactly-how-... @familyfarmco.bsky.social

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The past three years, I worked with Radha D’Souza, Lucia Pietroiusti and Serpentine Galleries on the third chapter of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial. Join our public jury April 5-6: www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/cou... #cicc

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Cerca de mil mujeres sin tierra ocupan área de Suzano en Brasil, denunciando que “el agronegocio es violencia y crimen ambiental”. Exigen una Reforma Agraria para enfrentar el hambre y la crisis ambiental www.anred.org/el-agronegoc...

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Journalist Jack Thompson reports on a failed US farm project in Senegal, African Agriculture Inc., that has sown distrust and loss. “We want to work with the government to rectify this. If not, we will fight,” warn local communities. apnews.com/article/clim... @oaklandinstitute.bsky.social

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☕ Does your neighbour drink 23 billion espressos a year? 🚨Starbucks reports all its global coffee bean sales via a small Swiss address. It's a paperwork scheme, pilling up profits here where taxes are low. We join @cictar.bsky.social @publiceye.ch & @alliancesud.ch to expose Starbucks Swiss Scheme

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"Harvard stole Brazilian land. It’s time to make amends", writes Kayla P.S. Springer in The Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... @tiaadivest.bsky.social @realfoodmedia.bsky.social @doug-hertzler.bsky.social

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La biología generativa, potenciando ADN y proteínas con IA, avanza sin regulaciones ni supervisión. Informe de ETC Group, TWN y ACBio alerta sobre riesgos para la biodiversidad y la salud www.etcgroup.org/es/content/l...

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Crypto leader Tether takes control of #Adecoagro - with its 210,400 ha of farmland in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay - while buying into #Bioceres, the contested GM wheat producer farmlandgrab.org/32733 @ojoioeotrigo.bsky.social @martindrago.bsky.social @lughiotto.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social

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La Biélorussie vient de réaliser sa première expédition de lait en poudre vers le Sénégal, ciblant en même temps la Guinée, la Mauritanie et le Mali. www.agenceecofin.com/actualites-a... @humundi.bsky.social @ccfd-tsolidaire.bsky.social @solassociation.bsky.social

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As Papua New Guinea turns 50 this year, ACT NOW! have launched a new music video to protect and promote customary land in PNG. "We are only custodians of the land. Our ancestors defended, now it is our turn to defend it." www.actnowpng.org/blog/blog-en...

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Using agrofuels to decarbonise the shipping industry is a bad idea. An additional 35 million ha of farmland would be needed to grow vast monocultures of soybean, oil palm and maize to the detriment of small farmers & food sovereignty www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

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Pescadoras y pescadores artesanales en Chile protestan contra el Senado por priorizar a la industria pesquera. Exigen justicia y una Ley de Pesca que respalde sus derechos es.mongabay.com/2025/03/marc...

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¿Supone el retorno de Trump el fin del libre comercio? No, y de hecho se aceleran las negociaciones de TLCs desde la UE, los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, India, y emergen nuevas “sub-hegemonías”. Una reflexión de bilalterals.org y Attac France: www.bilaterals.org/?supone-el-r...

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En Perú, miembros del parlamento proponen levantar la moratoria contra los transgénicos, amenazando las semillas y la biodiversidad en manos campesinas. Esto permitiría cultivos transgénicos como maíz y algodón para el agronegocio insurgenciamagisterial.com/peru-semilla...

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From India to Uganda and Mexico, rural women reveal the layers of adversity they endure, as well as their resilience in challenging industrial agriculture. Listen to their voices! grain.org/e/7261 @wominafrica.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social

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April without supermarkets! Great campaign initiative from @humundi.bsky.social. Background dossier looks at the impact of supermarkets in Senegal, Bolivia and Belgium, and what social movements can do. www.humundi.org/publications... (in French) @margteixeira.bsky.social #AvrilSansSupermarché

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Los proyectos REDD y de carbono prometen beneficios a comunidades, pero suelen despojarles de sus territorios, favoreciendo a empresas contaminantes. Solo en México ya hay 314 proyectos en mercados de carbono. Más información: desinformemonos.org/resistencia-...

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Who do you think should get the prize for SLAPP lawsuits in Europe? SOCFIN? ENI? Energy Transfer? Time to vote! @fian-international.bsky.social @recommon.org @oaklandinstitute.bsky.social @asso-sherpa.bsky.social @humundi.bsky.social @publiceye.ch @lessoulevements.bsky.social

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Price of eggs doubling? sounds familiar but this is about Kenya not the US. "farmers have to overpay for feed, which reduces their margins, and consumers ultimately foot the bill through unaffordable food prices" Good guest piece on @thinink.bsky.social blog from Carin Smaller.

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🇰🇪 Kenya : Trois ans après la décision du gouvernement de revenir sur l'interdiction d'importer des aliments et de semences OGM, une cour d'appel a décidé de suspendre à nouveau leur autorisation www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...

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📣 #Webinaralert Tomorrow! Do join us! 26 March 14:30-16:00 ET / 18:30-20:00 GMT Interpretation to English, French & Spanish Register on Zoom: world-psi.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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La deforestación en Santiago del Estero (Argentina) está afectando a comunidades indígenas y campesinas. Empresarios del agronegocio como Orlando Canido son denunciados por desmontes y desalojos violentos es.mongabay.com/2025/03/defo...

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In Kenya, a UK charity appears to be stacking a carbon farming project, funded by Rabobank, on top of a regenerative agriculture project, backed by AGRA and IKEA. 1/2 www.farmafrica.org/agroforestry... @reddmonitor.bsky.social @meganrowling.bsky.social @powershiftafrica.bsky.social

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🔥 Plus de 250 représentant·es de peuples autochtones et communautés locales se sont réuni·es à Merauke (Papouasie méridionale) pour rejeter les megaprojets qui vont s'accaparer des millions d'hectares de leurs terres pour alimenter l'Indonésie www.farmlandgrab.org/32709

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La Via Campesina's call to action for #17April - the international day of #peasantstruggles - focuses on land, water and territory grabbing. To get involved: viacampesina.org/en/2025/03/1... @eurovia.org @fian-international.bsky.social @ViaCampesina.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Call for immediate ban on the sale of #glyphosate from BKS, which claims to be India's biggest farmers' union. The Indian states of Kerala and Telangana have already banned glyphosate, and its use is already supposed to be restricted elsewhere in India. www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri...

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US tuna giant Bumble Bee is being sued by Indonesian workers who say they were forced into ‘fishing boat slavery’ edition.cnn.com/2025/03/21/b... @iufasia-pacific.bsky.social @namanet.bsky.social @sdonziger.bsky.social

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🚨State-backed meat giants are reshaping global #foodsystems —at huge cost. With massive subsidies, JBS, WH Group & others: 🌍Drive deforestation ⚖️Dodge antitrust rules 💰 Exploit tax loopholes 🍽️ Worsen food access 📢 Time to rein them in! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MeatMonopolies

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Gerardo Camacho, un gran profesor y defensor de las comunidades campesinas de CDMX falleció. Su legado en la lucha por la tierra y el agua de San Nicolás Totolapan sigue vivo. Su historia y compromiso siguen inspirando desinformemonos.org/la-historia-...

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More than 250 indigenous peoples and local communities gathered in Merauke, South Papua declaring strong rejection to the mega projects that will grab millions of hectares of community land across the country for Indonesia food and energy projects www.farmlandgrab.org/post/32709-s...

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🐟 La dernière édition du bulletin Nyéléni fait le tour de la resistance à l’aquaculture et la pêche industrielles à travers le monde : nyeleni.org/fr/category/... @infonyeleni.bsky.social

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Indonesia, home to the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest, has long been a prime candidate for carbon trading. Large plantations and logging companies are seizing the opportunity. Will this be just another way for big players to profit? www.climatechangenews.com/2025/03/11/w...

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Un equipo investiga el asesinato de Berta Cáceres en Honduras para identificar a los autores intelectuales y los vínculos con la empresa DESA. El grupo propondrá un plan de reparación para las comunidades afectadas por el proyecto hidroeléctrico es.mongabay.com/2025/03/bert...

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Las Mujeres Sin Tierra de Brasil denuncian la violencia del agronegocio y proponen alternativas frente a la crisis ambiental, bajo el lema ¡Unidas en la lucha contra el capital! viacampesina.org/es/brasil-jo...

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