How do transnational corporations that control most of the global economy serve the interests of their host-states? How is the relationship between states and capital changing?

🚨 Call for essays- deadline for pitches 5 June tni.org/en/article/cal…

#Italie 🚨 L'Associazione Rurale Italiana Associazione Rurale Italiana sonne l'alarme sur la plantation de riz génétiquement modifié dans le pays. Un communiqué de presse met en lumière les lacunes scientifiques et le manque de transparence. #OGM European Coordination Via Campesina IPC Food Sovereignty
viacampesina.org/fr/italie-les-…

Israeli forces have been targeting hospitals in northern Gaza again. Video shows medical staff and patients, including a newborn, fleeing Kamal Adwan Hospital after a missile attack.

The People’s Water Forum is a crucial coordinating platform for water justice movements around the world.

Read their statement on the recent repressions happening in Bali: thepeopleswaterforum.org/2024/05/20/peo…

Tunisia's Green Hydrogen Strategy, developed with EU backing, is a new form of colonial extractivism. Massive exports to Europe prioritise EU energy needs at the expense of Tunisia's resources and development. tni.org/en/article/gre…

🎙️Our movement partner ACBIO just launched a new podcast! For their first episode, hear reflections from their Executive Director and founder, Mariam Mayet and Haidee Swanby on their decades-long work towards #FoodSovereignty . acbio.org.za/gm-biosafety/a…

Media Statement: Masifundise backs Coastal Communities in Supreme Court Appeal Against Shell's Oil and Gas Exploration
#SaveTheWildCoast
#OceansNotOil #ShellSCA
🔗Read more: tinyurl.com/spfteu42

¡ #VozCampesina llegó a los 90! En esta edición: Historia de la masacre de Eldorado do Carajas. Campaña de solidaridad del movimiento campesino por el fin del genocidio en Gaza #ReformaAgraria Solución haitiana a la crisis Cloc Vía Campesina La Via Campesina (Official EN) La Via Campesina en français

#BezosFund CEO lays out a colonial vision at #LandConf2024 of a “new generation” of carbon markets where corporations like Amazon can offset half (!) their scope 3 emissions by zoning off and surveilling lands & forests (mostly of Indigenous peoples)
youtube.com/watch?v=WkG9uw…

It’s time for an emancipatory land politics that puts land into the hands of small-scale food producers and places indigenous peoples on centre stage.

Sylvia Kay reflects on the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing: tni.org/en/article/tac…

📢Agribusiness lobby groups worked hard in past years to to undermine a fair and sustainable agriculture.

Who in the European Parliament were on their side - and who were not? 👀

👉Check out how political groups voted with these new scorecards!

#votefutureEU

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Dismay as #GMO rice trial begins in Italy. 'After 24 years of national legislation to guarantee Italian agriculture is GMO free, Italy is now at risk of GMO contamination,' warns the Italian peasant organization Associazione Rurale Italiana, part of La Via Campesina (Official EN)/European Coordination Via Campesina assorurale.it/2024/05/14/com…

Over 80 organizations from around the world accuse the World Bank of facilitating land grabbing and the financialization of nature.

via IPC Food Sovereignty

viacampesina.org/en/world-bank-…

👉 Event tonight at ULB in Brussels:

Why do we need to talk about colonialism when it comes to pesticides? How can EU produce and export pesticides that harm health and the environment?
Organizers: Agroecology Lab ULB, A Bean, @paula_anacaona, and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)

🚨New @ipesfood report shows the world's farmland is owned by a few—the 1% largest farms control 70% of land.
Small & medium-scale farmers are being squeezed out.
Extreme land inequality obstructs sustainable #foodsystems . We need a new deal for farmers.

A military invasion in Rafah would be CATASTROPHIC. Almost 1.3 million people, including at least half a million children, are now crammed into this small city in #Gaza . There can be no more 'evacuations'. There is no safe place to go.

There must be a #CeasefireNOW 🚨

The MMIW/R crisis has a direct correlation to the extractive industries that have invaded our homelands, waging violence against our lands, waters, and our bodies. Violence against Indigenous women, femmes, Two-Spirits, relatives, and Mother Earth MUST END! #MMIW #MMIW R

New coalition set up by McKinsey and WEF is lobbying for a 'biodiversity credit' market that will allow corporations to 'offset' their environmental destruction. A key member is GMO/pesticide giant Bayer, arguably the world's top biodiversity killer.
carbon-pulse.com/282426

Pesticides are harmful even in small amounts thought safe, study finds, when they act together. Even at low concentrations pesticides commonly found in the environment can disrupt the proper functioning of cells and even cause DNA damage when combined usherbrooke.ca/actualites/nou…

In 2008, the #Socfin group was granted 12,000 ha in #Cambodia without the knowledge & consent of the Indigenous #Bunong people. Powerful glimpse into the communities' 15-year struggle, resistance and resilience: grain.org/e/7136 #landgrab