Artwork from Got Green, a solidarity partner of CAGJ’s Food Justice Project. Blog post by Food Justice Project Intern Fotima Ibrokhim Sign to oppose Senate Bill 5126! Demand a real reduction in pollution and address the root causes of the climate crisis. The SB 5126 (Washington Climate Commitment Act) will create a cap-and-invest system, also […]
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No Longer the “Wrong Seeds”: Farmer Seed Enterprise
Blog post by Carol Thompson “They called and asked to buy sorghum and millet seeds from us.” This simple statement reversed more than 25 years of derision and outright scorn of the idea that smallholder farmers in Southern Africa could propagate good quality seeds for planting, instead of grain. The decades of public denigration from […]
Fighting Despair with Community, Organizing, Poetry
A message from CAGJ Director, Heather Day Please make a year-end gift to CAGJ today! Dear CAGJ’s Members & supporters, Living through this past year has been incredibly challenging, even more so for some than others. To fight off despair and find hope, it helps that we defeated a white supremacist facist on election day! […]
An End-of-Year Letter to our Members & Supporters
Dear CAGJ friend— What a year it has been. We write to you full of hope, uncertainty, excitement, apprehension, love, loss, gratitude, overwhelm, and with a sense of yearning, that perhaps this year of crisis may also be the birthplace of a world new. We honor the Black Lives Matter movement in particular for engaging […]
Navdanya & Vandana Shiva Launch New Report & Webinar: Gates to a Global Empire
Summary by AGRA Watch Intern Connor Nakamura AGRA Watch’s research on the Cornell Alliance for Science was featured recently in the “Gates to a Global Empire” report published by Navdanya. The report includes contributions from a variety of leading experts and civil society movements leaders, aiming to highlight “the dangers of philanthrocapitalism, which is boosting […]
Watch the AGRA Watch Webinar! “The Struggle over Agroecology”
The AGRA Watch campaign of Community Alliance for Global Justice was thrilled to host our report launch and Webinar on August 8, 2020, “The Struggle over Agroecology: Mapping and Mobilizing against the Gates Foundation’s Influence in African Agriculture”. In the webinar, we presented the findings of our new publication, “Messengers of Gates’ Agenda: A Study […]
Support the SLEE Dinner!
Support the SLEE Dinner! To help in any of the following ways, please contact this year’s coordinator, Sara Lavenhar: sara(at)cagj.org. Donate to Silent Auction! Need some help brainstorming what to donate to the Silent Auction? Here are some ideas: What restaurants do you frequent? Could you get a gift certificate? Would the chef host dinner […]
About the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest free-trade agreement negotiated since the World Trade Organization. The trade zone would stretch across 12 countries (The United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam) and other countries may join later. Lori Wallach calls the TPP “NAFTA on steroids” because it […]
Membership Month & 2019 CAGJ Annual Report!
APRIL IS CAGJ MEMBERSHIP MONTH! Soon you should receive CAGJ’s beautiful 2019 Annual Report in the mail. You can also check it out on our website! I hope you and your family safe, and in good health. These are such challenging times, and I am grateful for all that the CAGJ community is doing to […]
“The GM potato push in Rwanda: With regulatory hurdles in Uganda, is this the industry’s fall back?”
Written by African Centre for Biodiversity Originally published on February, 3rd 2020 Summarized by Aya Wallaia, AGRA Watch Intern Due to the devastating impacts of late blight which has caused Rwandan Farmers a tremendous decrease in yields, an increase in the use of fungicides, and resistance to the fungicides, there has been a push for […]
