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Agroecological family farming as the most appropriate model of agriculture to meet food needs and fulfil the other functions of agriculture. The forms of support that are required to strengthen this model, including creation of added value at local level

• The Jakarta call

  "Agroecology is our option for today and the future". The declaration from the 6th Vía Campesina international conference in Jakarta

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• Position on the marketing of seeds, plant health and controls

  Position of European Coordination Via Campesina on the marketing of seeds, plant health and controls

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• African Regional Plant Variety Protection Draft Legislation Raises Protest

  Civil society organisations from the SADC region condemned the SADC draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (Plant Breeders’ Rights) as spelling disaster for small farmers and food security in the region.  They are calling for urgent consultations

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• Tanzanian civil society statement on farmers' rights

  Tanzanian farmers are dependent on the farmer-managed seed systems. These systems allow farmers to limit the cost of production by preserving biodiversity and independence from the commercial seed sector
  

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• Something rotten in the food system

  Poverty, not scarcity of food is the cause of hunger. The current world trade order is skewed against the interests of the needy. Change is required at all levels. An article by Dagmar Milerova Praskova of Glopolis, partner of EuropAfrica.

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• Europe : The EFSA finally decides in favour of beekeepers and consumers

  The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has just published an opinion on the evaluation of the risks posed to bees and other pollinators by the use of insecticides of the neonicotinoid family

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• Agricultural investments and land acquisitions in Mali

  A report by IIED on agricultural investments in Mali. It analyses national trends in investment flows and patterns; it assesses the adequacy of the legal and institutional framework regulating land and investment; and it examines two examples of more inclusive investments.

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• In Surin the First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Seeds

  International delegates of La Via Campesina gathered in Surin, Thailand, from 6 to 12 November 2012 for the First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Seeds.

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• Importation of all GMO food banned

  Public Health minister Beth Mugo subsequently directed all Public Health Officers at all ports of entry and all other government regulators to enforce the ban on importation of Genetically Modified Foods in the country.

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• Cameroon: Stricter taxes for companies drawing on natural resources to better tackle hunger – UN Special Rapporteur

  Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, proposes stricter taxes for companies and more partecipation for smallholders, herders and fishers against food crises

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• Romania must not sell out traditional farmers to the biotech giants

  Romania's smallholder farmers are being denied EU funding as ministers allow the encroachment of large-scale agribusiness (from The Guardian)

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• Agricultural transition - a book for a viable future

  A book launched today for promoting a viable food future. By More and Better

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• Ending Hunger in Africa: What Strategies, What Governance?

  Ndiogou Fall, President of the ROPPA network for 10 years, at Harvard University

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• A Viable Food Future

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

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• ‘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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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