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Tag Archives: Food Sovereignty
Virtual Food Sovereignty Prize Ceremony
THURS OCT 13, 9AM PDT/12PM EDT/4PM Ghana 2022 Food Sovereignty Prize Ceremony honoring Food Sovereignty Ghana & Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) Register Here for the virtual event emceed by Malik Yakini of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Now in its 14th year, the Food Sovereignty Prize is given annually near World […]
Announcing Ep4 of Rich Appetites docuseries!
We are SO EXCITED to announce today’s launch of “Science,” the fourth episode in our Rich Appetites docuseries, co-produced with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA). Watch Episode 4 now!! (10min) Rich Appetites details how American billionaires and philanthro-capitalists like Bill Gates and his Foundation are underwriting the corporate control of African food systems under the […]
“Food security, or food slavery?” Faith leaders and farmers demand that the Gates Foundation stop funding industrial agriculture in Africa, and fund agroecology instead
Following the United Nations (UN) Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome in July – a prequel to the upcoming Summit in New York, this September – faith communities from across Africa have been calling attention to the far-reaching consequences of current industrial agricultural models. On June 4th, the Southern African Faith Communities’ Institute (SAFCEI) sent an […]
African Civil Society and farmer representatives blocked from ARIPO deliberations on regional seed (PVP) law
AGRA Watch partners the African Centre for Biodiversity and the PELUM Association in collaboration with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa issued a joint press release today. Read the full text below. 
Report-back on 2016 Food Sovereignty Prize Ceremony and Encounter: Our Seeds of International Solidarity
Last week, representatives of over 20 organizations gathered in Seattle and Bellingham for several days of dialogue, action, and celebration of the growing food sovereignty movement.
Food Sovereignty Prize Winner: Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa is an alliance of civil society and farmer organizations across Africa dedicated to promoting a strong, united voice of African-driven solutions of food sovereignty, agroecology, and social justice. 
Food And Hunger: Which Prize Takes The Prize?
CAGJ and Community to Community are co-hosting the 2016 Food Sovereignty Prize, working closely with US Food Sovereignty Alliance members across the country, including WhyHunger, whose co-founder authored this piece on the fundamental differences between the World Food Prize, and the Food Sovereignty Prize.
Cover Crops: A Simple Solution to Degrading Soil Quality
Photo Credit: Food First Roland Bunch, a researcher and activist for Food First, published a report focused on fact that in Sub-Saharan Africa smallholder farmer’s lands have gotten smaller on average due to population increase and growing amounts of wasteland. This decrease in the size of farms has resulted in the decline of the practice […]
EU Parliament Agrees With a Report that’s Highly Critical of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
March 2014, World Development Movement(WDM) campaigners(above, below) dressed as business people from Monsanto, Diageo, SABMiller and Unilever delivered a cake to the Department For International Development to “thank” the UK government for its support in allowing them to carve up Africa. In early June the EU Parliament voted to accept a report put out […]
