Insight / Land Rights
TIAA, the retirement fund manager with $1.3 trillion in assets, continues to refuse to divest from fossil fuels and farmland, even as climate campaigners rallied in NYC that was choked with apocalyptic smoke. On June 7, we teamed up with TIAA-Divest and the Stop Land Grabs campaign to mobilize an…
Blog Post / Right to Food and Agriculture
When global hunger was estimated to be 792 million people back in the year 2000, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) wrote in the 2000 State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) report: “In a world of unprecedented wealth, these levels of need are disgraceful.” Ten years…
Blog Post / Climate Justice
Last week, ActionAid joined climate justice activists around the world and in New York City at the United Nations to demand that the wealthy governments in the Global North fund rebuilding efforts from “loss & damage” experienced by poorer countries around the world due to climate disasters, which are increasing…
Blog Post / Climate Justice
Yesterday, September 8th, Leah Douglas published an in-depth research article on ethanol in Reuters. It’s a careful, deeply researched piece that reminds us of what good journalism can be and an important and timely reminder that corn ethanol is NOT a climate solution. A couple of key findings from the…
Insight / Climate Justice / Right to Food and Agriculture
On Tuesday, November 2nd, President Biden spoke at COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, where he formally “launched” the Agricultural Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate, which is supposed to “support research and innovation in climate-smart agriculture.” Along with the United Arab Emirates, the United States is “focused on increasing investment and…
Insight
As we prepare for World Food Day this Saturday, October 16th, the need to transform the food system is becoming increasingly apparent. The dominant model of large-scale, chemical-intensive, corporate-controlled agriculture is a root cause of the worsening climate crisis through its unsustainable practices; is making hunger, poverty, and inequality worse…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
Today, the United Nations is convening its one-day, virtual Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) – and hundreds of civil society organizations and movements are boycotting it. Bizarrely, the organizers are calling it a “People’s Summit,” which is absurd since the “people” won’t even be there. Rather, the UNFSS has centered corporate…
Insight
By Alberta Guerra, senior policy analyst at ActionAid USA, Catherine Gatundu, interim head of resilient livelihoods and climate justice at ActionAid International, and Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, national campaigner at ActionAid USA The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is rapidly approaching. The event on 23 September will be convened by UN Secretary-General,…
Insight
University of Iowa employees recently passed a resolution rebuking the financial company TIAA, which manages the retirement savings for employees at the University of Iowa, for its connections to deforestation, land grabbing, and corporate agriculture in the US and Brazil. The resolution also calls on the University of Iowa to…
Insight
While Juneteenth – a day of celebration for the end of slavery – is now a federal holiday, the struggle for justice, human rights, and freedom continues. Dismantling systemic racism requires a radical transformation of our society, including the ways in which we grow our food. No institution has been…
