Insight / Climate Justice / Land Rights / Politics & Economics / Right to Food and Agriculture
For over 10 years, we have campaigned against biofuels policies that drive agribusiness expansion and deforestation and contribute to hunger and poverty, land grabbing, and climate change. Biofuels like corn ethanol have been shown to be false solutions to climate change, and biofuels policies like the Renewable Fuel Standard have…
Insight / Politics & Economics / Right to Food and Agriculture
Last month, we wrote a blog post highlighting the Trump administration’s hostility to the right to food, to international development for agriculture, and to international institutions and international cooperation to solve global problems. Not even a week after we put out that blog, the Trump administration announced that they had…
Insight / Climate Justice / Politics & Economics
Stopping climate change means transforming the model of both energy and the economy that relies on extraction, of both natural and human resources. Unfortunately, so many of the “solutions” to climate change – particularly bioenergy – are just technical changes that maintain the underlying extractive model. And because they are…
Insight / Politics & Economics
The Trump Administration announced a change to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), claiming that they have fixed the broken policy. They are proposing to allow more ethanol to be blended in gasoline, while allowing exports of biofuels to count as part of the RFS. But this will only make sure…
Insight / Politics & Economics / Right to Food and Agriculture
Farmers in America are in crisis, and American agriculture is suffering. Decades of increasing consolidation in the food and agriculture sector have led to a handful of virtual monopolies that control every aspect of farming from seeds, to fertilizers, to livestock, to grain, to machinery, and potentially even the farmland…
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If there’s one thing I’ll be doing tonight, it will be to not watch the State of the Union. And I won’t be alone. Across the country, activists, lawmakers and celebrities alike are boycotting the speech and staging demonstrations to turn the nation’s attention toward urgent realities like climate change…
Insight / Land Rights / Right to Food and Agriculture
Today is World Food Day, a day when farmers, food and farm workers, and eaters around the world take action to defend the human right to food. It’s also known as World Food Sovereignty Day. Officially organized by the UN, many organizations here in the United States are using World…
Insight / Climate Justice / Right to Food and Agriculture
As Houston, Texas, and cities across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh are still reeling from recent floods and landslides, the media is putting a spotlight on what the devastating impact of climate change looks like. Besides damaging people’s homes and businesses, many farms and fields have been destroyed by these floods,…
Insight / Land Rights / Right to Food and Agriculture
Right now, some of the world’s biggest financial firms are meeting to discuss how to turn farming into a financial product. Farmland, in particular, has been described as being like “gold with yield.” Since the 2008 financial crisis, big investors have seen acquiring farmland as a safe bet to hedge…
Insight / Land Rights
Last month in Brazil, the government of Michel Temer announced that it would pass a law allowing foreign companies and individuals to buy and own large amounts farmland. In 2010, Brazil restricted the sale of farmland to foreign investors in order to protect Brazilian farmers and communities, but Temer is…
