• 2014: International Year of the Family Farming

  For the first time in history, an International Year has been promoted by Civil Society

• Putting farmers first: reshaping agricultural research in West Africa

  This briefing by IEED explains how some farmer assessments and citizens’ juries in West Africa has helped farmers assess existing approaches and articulate recommendations for policy and practice to achieve their own vision of agricultural research.

• Policy Opportunities for Agroecology

  A strategy session to discuss policy opportunities to promote ecological and equitable models of sustainable food production and consumption.

• Why is agroecology the solution to hunger and food security?

  A dialogue with Miguel Altieri, Professor at the University of california Berkeley, about hunger, food and agroecological alternative during a day-long colloquium at the International institute of Social Studies (ISS)

• Quelles stratégies pour améliorer le pouvoir de marché des producteurs ?

  Cette publication a été rédigée par le Collectif stratégies alimentaires (CSA), dans le cadre du second programme du Collectif EuropAfrique.

• The Hunger-Makers

  How Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Other Financial Institutions are speculating With Food at the Expense of the Poorest

• Do you invest in frontier markets?

  Pension Danmark's DKK 320 million (EUR 43 million) farmland investment will focus on agricultural production in Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Uganda and Mozambique

• Investigation cautions against private land investments in South Sudan

  Between 2007 and 2010, 5.15 million hectares has been sought in South Sudan by private interests. We need new solutions for its development

• The population of Fanaye against land grabbing

  A video explains the rural community reasons in Fanaye

• Lamy rebuts UN food rapporteur’s claim that WTO talks hold food rights ‘hostage’

  WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has rejected a report by Professor Olivier de Schutter, UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, which argues that international trade and WTO rules can conflict with food security.

• Foreign energy policy fuels famine in Africa

  Pambazuka News speaks to Oakland Institute about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa, from the role played by the energy policies of rich countries and the World Bank to the dangers of a development agenda that fails to heed the negative social, economic and environmental impacts of industrial agrofuel and agroforestry projects.

• GRAIN calls for end to land grabbing at Swedish Parliament

  On 5 December 2011, GRAIN received the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. And It called for end to land grabbing

• Mil et une solutions

  Towards food sovereignity: using local cereals to make bread. The video

• Feeding the Financial Hype

  New SOMO report about negative consequences of food speculation

• Joint statement by The West African Civil Society Platform on the Cotonou Agreement

  We edit the joint statement by The West African Civil Society Platform on the Cotonou Agreement(POSCAO), Economic Justice Network of Ghana (EJN) and the Secretariat of the Africa Trade Network (ATN) on the occasion of the ECOWA ministerial monitoring committee (MMC) of the EPA negotiations.

• Food Sovereignty As a Way to Achieve Food Security

  Small steps in the Czech Republic towards sustainable agricultural production and consumption.

• A Viable Food Future

  The Report written by the Development Fund, in cooperation with several Civil Society's Organization.

• Strengthening the Role of Human Rights in the EU Trade Policy

   Address to Ecofair Trade Dialogue “Strengthening the Role of Human Rights in the EU Trade Policy”, 7 - 7 December - Brussels

• ‘Virtuous circles’ can help secure food supplies and address climate change

  A book published today by IIED paints a vivid picture of an alternative future in which food, energy and water supplies are sustainable and in the control of local communities.

• Controlling Our Food

  On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

• The future of food

  The Future of Food is a hopeful film, featuring insightful and moving interviews with farmers, agriculture and business experts and policymakers. It sees a future in which an informed consumer can join the revolution by demanding natural, healthy food sources that insure environmental integrity.

• Report launch 2011. Spotlight on EU Policy Coherence for Development

  Concord presents the new Spotlight Report about EU policies effects in the areas of Food Security, Natural Resources, Human Security and Migration.Monday 7 November 2011, h 11:00 - 12:30 Residence Palace Press Centre, Maelbeek room, Brussels

• Face to the G20, All in Nice

  Here, you can read the programme and all informations about four days of demonstrations, conferences, debates and actions.

• Global Governance for World Food Security: A Scorecard Four Years After the Eruption of the “Food Crisis”

  Food is the most basic of all human needs. After historic, social ed economic analysis about food security, Nora MCKeon proposes architecture and set of practices for a better global governance system

• We want new global rules to defend land and those who shall work it

  "Traders must keep their hands off from land and food". "the land belongs to those who work it, and to the local communities". "Food Sovereignty for all". These are but few samples of the claims raised in Rome by one hundred representatives from 'La Via Campesina', the IPC  and from CISA (Italian Committee for Food Sovereignty). These platforms of peasants' federations held a street demonstration in front of the FAO premises, at the opening of the negotiations on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, ended in October 14.

• Food sovereignty: now’s the time to make it happen! The integral article by Nora Mc Keon

  From 10 to 22 October the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be meeting at FAO in Rome to debate land grabbing, food price volatility and rural investiments. Nora mc Keon, in this article, explains why the CFS is so important 

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