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SAT May 21: Urban Hike-a-Thon for Food Justice on Beacon Hill
Support organizing for food justice! Help us meet our fundraising goal of $5000—all proceeds will be split between CAGJ, Familias Unidas por la Justicia Farmworker Union, and Black Star Farmers, who will be featured as our SLEE Keynote! Walk, bike, run, or wheel to key locations in the local food justice movement on Beacon Hill, […]
The African Union moves to support industrial agriculture over the African people
A summary by AGRA Watch intern Sarah Muniz In February 2022, the African Union (AU) came out in support of two sets of guidelines for the harmonization of seed and the use of biotechnology in food and agriculture in Africa, despite public concern and outrage over the decision. Biotechnology in agriculture centers largely around genetically […]
Membership Month & 2021 CAGJ Annual Report!
CAGJ is Planting Seeds of Possibility Help CAGJ Earn $10K Membership Month Matching Grant Membership Month is a time for us to celebrate our Members without whom our work would not be possible! And if you’re not already a Member, please consider becoming one today, either by donating, or by filling out our membership form […]
Watch “Money,” 3rd episode in AGRA Watch film series, “Rich Appetites”
Today, AGRA Watch and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa are launching “Money,” the third episode in our Rich Appetites film series! We are grateful to Mariam Mayet and Daniel Maingi for contributing their viewpoints to the film, and Greenhouse Cartoons for their incredible animation! The Rich Appetites film series details how American billionaires […]
TAKE ACTION NOW! Call on USAID to end support to failing “Green Revolution”
Please take action today to stand with African farmers! Join our campaign calling on the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to stop using taxpayer money to fund the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). AGRA is a highly unpopular and failing initiative that imposes corporate-dominated industrial agriculture on African farmers. USAID has […]
APRIL 2022 CAGJ E-News
CAGJ Monthly E-Newsletter | APRIL 5, 2022 HEADLINES | CAGJ HAPPENINGS | TAKE ACTION | CAGJ NEWS & ANALYSIS | COMMUNITY CALENDAR | Get Involved! Upcoming CAGJ Meetings CAGJ is Blossoming: It’s Spring, our annual time to celebrate Membership Month! We are excited to share our 2021 Annual Report with you! You may have already […]
AGRA is failing farmers, but helping foreign corporations
An analysis by AGRA Watch In late February, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) released an external evaluation of its Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa (PIATA) program. Launched in 2017, PIATA aimed to transform agriculture into an engine of economic growth and claimed that it would increase incomes and improve […]
Small farmers feed the world
by AGRA Watch intern Sarah Muniz The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently issued a report that supports the damaging myth that small-scale producers are not viable nor capable of feeding the global population; this further perpetuates the belief that the industrial food system is best. In response, eight organizations wrote a letter […]
La Via Campesina: #8M2022 | Global Call to Action | By Sowing Food Sovereignty, We Harvest Rights and a Dignified Life!
OFFICIAL POSTER. CLICK TO ENLARGE Bagnolet, 23 February 2021: On March 8, 2022–International Working Women’s Day—we salute the historic struggles of organized working women in the countryside and in cities for their rights and to live with dignity. Women are the ones who feed their peoples, preserve collective memory, and lead resistance throughout the world. […]