GRAIN
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- Les États-Unis utilisent des menaces tarifaires pour contourner les lois et redéfinir les normes alimentaires dans de nombreux pays d’Asie. Cette stratégie impose des concessions unilatérales et révèle une diplomatie néocoloniale. grain.org/e/7348 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social
- 6 civil society orgs in Madagascar have written to Verra to complain about a carbon credit project carried out by Tozzi Green. Clear example of what accountability should look like (but it shouldn't be CSOs that have to demand it)! reddmonitor.substack.com/p/six-malaga... @ottob.bsky.social
- Tensions are rising in Uzbekistan's Andijan region: farmers say they are being coerced into "voluntarily" handing over their land to local authorities. Many believe the plots will subsequently be given to Chinese investors, report RFE/RL. farmlandgrab.org/33287
- Starbucks claims its 10 Farmer Support Centers are at the heart of its ‘ethical’ sourcing. @cictar.bsky.social analysed the only publicly available financial statements from Starbucks’ Farmer Support Centers, in Colombia and Tanzania, and found little benefits to farmers. cictar.org/all-research...
- Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund will seize land owned by 28 forestry, oil palm, cocoa and other companies that are linked to floods and landslides that killed 1200 people in Sumatra last December and transfer it to state-owned companies. www.reuters.com/business/env...
- Movimientos sociales y Pueblos Indígenas rumbo a la II Conferencia Internacional sobre Reforma Agraria y Desarrollo Rural - CIRADR20 en Cartagena, Colombia, para defender la tierra, los territorios y los bienes naturales ante el avance corporativo y la desigualdad viacampesina.org/es/movimient...
- 14 Indigenous peoples in northern Brazil are blocking a Cargill facility to protest a government decree privatising & expanding dredging projects for soybean exports. Protestors say it "symbolises predatory agribusiness” and that Cargill lobbied for the decree. ca.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-p...
- La Unión Europea evalúa declarar a la soja para agrocombustibles como materia prima de alto riesgo. Pero queda bastante por recorrer para lograr una descarbonización que no ponga en riesgo a la alimentación ni a la biodiversidad. www.ecologistasenaccion.org/357834/la-ap... @ecologistasenaccion.org
- Los movimientos campesinos de Europa y América Latina celebran que el Parlamento Europeo haya suspendido la ratificación del TLC UE–Mercosur, afirmando que el acuerdo favorece al agronegocio frente a la soberanía alimentaria viacampesina.org/es/la-coordi...
- La justicia de Buenos Aires prohíbe temporalmente el trigo transgénico HB4, priorizando la protección de la salud de la naturaleza. El juez mencionó en el dictamen, que la empresa Bioceres podría genera daños irreversibles en el campo y las personas www.eldiariodetandil.com/nota-prohibe...
