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Oil, Debt, and Climate Chaos: What’s at Stake in Santa Marta.
The Board of the Fund for responding to Loss & Damage meets in Zambia this week
Over 250 Organizations Warn the Loss & Damage Fund Could Run Dry by 2027, Demand $400 Billion Annual Lifeline
ICARRD+20: No turning back on the fight for comprehensive and feminist agrarian reform
New momentum in the fight for land rights
Trump 2.0: One year later 
Along the Pipeline: Stories from Tanzania’s EACOP Corridor
ActionAid USA’s statement on the U.S. withdrawal of the UNFCCC
ActionAid USA’s top takeaways from COP30
COP30 gifts the world with just transition mechanism, despite hurdles of climate finance, says ActionAid
Rich nations working overtime to evade their climate action responsibility, warns ActionAid 
The latest COP text is empty; it’s just finger pointing, says ActionAid 
Activists call for COP30 to deliver on just transition so that climate action leaves no one behind 
Rich nations’ empty promises at COP30 threaten global cooperation, warns ActionAid 
Financial Speculation Drives Massive Land Grabbing, Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado 
Under the Radar: How Land Speculation Enables the Destruction of the Brazilian Cerrado
ActionAid: Mutirão decision finally holds rich countries to account 
ActionAid warns progress is fragile on new Just Transition text 
‘The elephant in the room’ – the presence of Big Ag lobbyists makes COP30 Forest talk empty rhetoric
No shortage of money, only political will: ActionAid calls out rich countries climate finance hypocrisy at COP30
ActionAid’s statement on Week 1 of COP30
Climate activists demand a just transition in agriculture, so farmers and communities get a ‘seat at the table’ in climate decision-making 
ActionAid: “The Africa Group justified for cautious approach to adaptation indicators at COP30”
ActionAid says it’s now ‘game on’ for just transition as Global South countries unite to call for new global mechanism
ActionAid urges governments to prioritize people, as it prepares to lobby for a just transition mechanism at COP30 
New ActionAid report reveals failing investment in just transition ahead of COP30, as it calls for urgent action to prevent harm
Climate Finance for Just Transition: How the Finance Flows
Grounded in the gulf, aiming at the globe: Climate Reparations Camp 2025 
Global leaders’ climate pledges at the UNSG’s summit “fall way short of expectations,” says ActionAid
ActionAid welcomes Africa Climate Summit’s Declaration but warns about carbon markets and debt swaps 
The Africa Climate Summit must reject false solutions that worsen the climate crisis, says ActionAid   
ICJ climate change opinion gives “hope” to communities on the frontlines of climate crisis 
FfD4 must mark the start of transformative Special Drawing Rights reform
Trump wants $200 billion for his Gestapo while developing countries are left with crumbs at the Financing for Development summit 
ActionAid warns the fate of millions ‘hangs in the balance’as governments fail to deliver at finance summit 
FFD4 document adopted with consensus, but rich countries heartlessly water down debt commitments 
New ActionAid USA report unveils how carbon markets are facilitating corporate greenwashing, land grabs, and human-rights abuses in the Global South
Caution Required: Protecting Communities from Carbon Markets
Africa is owed US$36 trillion in climate debt by rich polluting countries, a new report by ActionAid shows
Who Owes Who?
ActionAid USA’s statement on the foreign aid freeze
Trump 2.0: Pretty much what we feared  
ActionAid’s response to the release of the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)
ICJ climate change hearings
COP29 final NCQG text: This text is not worth the paper it’s written on, says ActionAid
COP 29 launches dangerous market mechanisms as climate finance still outstanding 
ActionAid’s reaction to AOSIS, LDCs walkout at COP29
ActionAid’s reaction to the US legal strategy on climate finance
Rich countries are failing this moral test,” says ActionAid as new climate finance draft released
Rich countries are failing this moral test,” says ActionAid as new climate finance draft released
The debt collectors are here: “Pay developing countries what you owe!”climate activists tell polluters
Ongoing G20 talks seem to confirm UNFCCC framework that developed countries ought to pay climate finance, says ActionAid 
Rich countries are trying to turn climate talks into profit venture but this week we expect them to put real finance on the table,” says ActionAid’s Teresa Anderson
“To step up the energy transition, we need COP29 to unlock the funds,” says ActionAid on Energy Day 
Time to pay up, polluters! Vulnerable communities can’t wait any longer, say activists at COP29 ‘Giant Climate Invoice’ action
Rich countries pushing weak language in new climate finance negotiations to avoid providing real grant-based finance,” says ActionAid’s Teresa Anderson 
The fate of millions of people living on small island states depends on this COP, says ActionAid
Ruling a setback for climate justice but polluters are now feeling the heat
We can’t stop the climate crisis by spending less on climate finance than we spend on ice cream, says ActionAid 
COP29 is a test of wealthy countries’ commitment to securing a liveable planet 
ActionAid lays out key asks for COP29 
Having a climate denier in the White House poses new barriers to climate action, says ActionAid
The time is up for coy talk from developed countries – we need trillions of dollars for climate finance, says ActionAid
“T-I-A-A fix your mess! We expect nothing less!” 
Loss and Damage at Home: Reckoning with Hurricane Helene’s Devastation
ActionAid USA’s statement on Congress’s Resolution on Migration Stability
The industries fuelling the climate crisis are draining public funds in the Global South, new ActionAid report reveals
How the Finance Flows: Corporate capture of Public Finance
Transforming lives in Baringo and Makueni: Women’s leadership in climate adaptation
The Indigenous Guard: protecting Colombia’s páramo
ActionAid USA’s Statement on Citi’s Attempt to Criminalize Peaceful Climate Protests
ActionAid comments on the decision to make the Philippines host of the Loss and Damage Board 
“Terrible warning that climate action has to move into a much higher gear,” says ActionAid
This Land is Our Land: Could the Farmland for Farmers Act be the beginning of a shift in American agriculture?
Step into a Farmers’ Life: ActionAid USA’s new agriculture stories put readers and supporters in the boots of farmers in today’s Rural America
“COP29 negotiations on climate finance will be a fork in the road for Planet Earth,” says ActionAid as Bonn talks end
Fair taxes can raise over US$2 trillion yearly for climate-vulnerable communities, says new ActionAid report amid Bonn finance talks
Finding Finance: Tax Justice And The Climate Crisis
ActionAid USA’s response to Biden’s Executive Order shutting down asylum requests
Your funding of climate-wrecking projects is robbing us of livelihoods and homes, communities tell global banks as AGM season kicks off
Climate justice and migrant justice are one and the same
ActionAid USA’s response to the introduction of the Green Climate Fund Authorization Act
Climate Justice Mobilisations on Finance
Adapting Our Financial Architecture in a Crisis-Prone World: A Civil Society Proposal for Special Drawing Rights Reform
Rooted Resilience: Addressing the root causes of environmental destruction in the DRC
Rooted Resilience: Agroecology as a feminist tool for the climate crisis
Barclays’ policy tweak needs to be the first step on a much longer journey, ActionAid says
Unveiling the Climate Windfall: Fossil Fuel Giants Rake in Billions While Global Crises Persist
Taxing the Crisis: Global North’s Responsibility in Financing Climate Resilience
Climate-wrecking firms make billions in ‘surplus’ profits, new ActionAid report shows 
The Power Of Windfalls
The new COP29 president has his work cut out – deliver the cash needed for a fossil fuel phase-out 
Exclusion of financial services from #CSDDD is a serious blow to the EU’s climate commitment, just after COP28, says ActionAid  
COP shows an “appetite for climate action”, but the willingness to fund a fossil-free future is still lacking
New COP28 draft on adaptation disappointing, ActionAid says
FAO’s roadmap fails to target agricultural emissions, ActionAid warns
Fossil fuel phase-out targets must go beyond ‘empty words,’ ActionAid says
Devastating climate report card shows need for fossil fuel phaseout finance, says ActionAid
The world is living on borrowed time – fossil fuels must go
Preaching water while drinking wine? The EU’s call for COP28 to address the world’s climate-harming financial flows not matched by its own efforts at home, research by ActionAid reveals
Sultan Al Jaber’s comments are completely divorced from the reality of hundreds of millions of people on the frontline of climate catastrophe, ActionAid says
New agriculture declaration a missed opportunity to tackle crucial issues, says ActionAid climate expert
ActionAid welcomes the operationalization of the Loss and damage fund at COP28 as an imperfect but important first step toward addressing climate impacts
ActionAid’s Five Climate Justice Benchmarks for COP28   
‘Our lives will never be the same,’ say Niger Delta  communities devastated by Shell gas flares
70 civil society groups urge U.S. to change course at Loss & Damage negotiations
From Aswan to Abu Dhabi: What Next for the Loss & Damage Fund?
Unraveling the Global Food Crisis: Profits, Vulnerability, and the Urgent Need for Change
What the Fourth Transitional Committee Meeting Must Deliver
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual meetings in Morocco are a chance to address harmful austerity and debt policies that have left millions in poverty on the African continent, says ActionAid 
Global Lessons from the Struggle to Secure Community Land Rights in the Brazilian Cerrado 
Statement from ActionAid USA on the GCF-2 Pledging Conference
What’s up with the Global Stocktake?
It’s dangerous to pin our climate hopes on CCS, says ActionAid expert as IEA launches report
Climate Ambition Summit: Shutting down the space for greenwashing is a necessary start, says ActionAid climate expert
Climate march makes it clear: It’s time to phase out fossil fuels
Climate Ambition Summit an opportunity to take bold climate crisis decisions, say ActionAid climate experts
Exposing TIAA’s role in land grabbing and ecocide: resources and publications to help you understand why we fight
Land Grabbing and Ecocide: How Bunge, TIAA, and Harvard Fuel the Destruction of the Destruction of the Brazilian Cerrado
The Africa Climate Summit is a missed opportunity for Africa to turn the tables on the climate crisis, says ActionAid 
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Defunding industrial agriculture in favor of sustainable alternatives like agroecology is key in the fight against the climate crisis and food insecurity
Banks providing twice as much financing to the second biggest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions than Global North governments have provided to fight climate change, ActionAid reveals
How the Finance Flows: the banks fueling the climate crisis
A crucial moment for the new Loss & Damage Fund
Tackling corporate agriculture: resources and publications to help you understand why we fight
The Financialization of Farmland: A Threat to Family Farming, Rural Economies, and Climate Action
AGRA at COP28: Not the right direction for climate justice
Le Coût Humain de la Crise Alimentaire: La hausse des prix fait des ravages dans le monde entierLe Coût Humain dela Crise Alimentaire
Our Future is Burning, They’re Still Not Learning
Los Costos Humanos de la Crisis Alimentaria: Cómo los Picos de Precios Están Causando Estragos en todo El Mundo
ActionAid report: Food and fuel prices skyrocket up to tenfold in the world’s most marginalized communities since the war in Ukraine
The Human Costs of the Food Crisis: How Price Spikes are Wreaking Havoc Across the Globe
How skyrocketing prices are taking a toll on young women’s health: Meem’s story
Beyond affordability: a dual crisis for young women in Nigeria
From floods to financial strain: Liza’s journey through the climate crisis and price rises
Resilience in farming: Ngozi’s story on navigating the price spikes
The ripple effects of rising prices and the climate crisis: Shazida’s story
From floods and price spikes to agroecology: Martha’s story
Farming her way out of the price rise crisis: Rina’s story
ActionAid statement on New Global Financial Pact Summit closing 
ActionAid comment on UN climate talks in Bonn  
ActionAid International comments on negotiations at Bonn Climate Conference 2023
The Biden Administration is putting geopolitics over global food security
Fund Our Future
The Vicious Cycle: Connections Between the Debt Crisis and Climate Crisis
ActionAid calls World Bank appointment ‘concerning’ as it urges new President to recognize the scale of the global debt crisis
New reporting shows TIAA’s unethical business deals in Brazil are endemic
New ActionAid Denmark report reveals Norwegian Oil Fund as Europe’s largest coal investor despite claiming to be a global climate leader
ActionAid’s response to Biden Administration’s $1 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund
Net-Zero Toolkit: Resources to Spot Greenwashing in the Dangerous Net-Zero Framing
93% of countries most vulnerable to climate disasters are either in or at significant risk of debt distress, new research by ActionAid International shows 
The Vicious Cycle: Connections Between The Debt Crisis And Climate Crisis
ActionAid’s response to the first meeting of the Transitional Committee to design new Loss & Damage fund
Report-back from TC1: the stage is set
Public Spending on Agroecology in Nepal and Cambodia – A Baseline Assessment
Donors and UN agencies must divert from fertilizers and fund the shift to agroecology
The Loss & Damage Transitional Committee meets next week: what to expect?
Major IPCC climate report ‘needs to be the trigger that moves the world from grudging acceptance to rapid action’, says ActionAid International
Could bi-partisan action on land-grabbing happen soon?
On the launch of the Santiago Declaration for Public Services, ActionAid joins hundreds of organizations to demand ‘Our Future is Public’
ActionAid responds to the appointment of UAE COP28 President
ActionAid responds to UN conference on Pakistan’s recovery after devastating flooding
Rosemary’s story: living through climate change-induced drought in Kenya
ActionAid USA statement on FY23 omnibus appropriations bill
New myths and new colonial land grabs
ActionAid hails loss and damage fund outcome at COP27 as victory for people living on the frontlines of climate disasters 
Draft COP27 cover note is a ‘letdown which urgently needs saving’, says ActionAid International
G77 loss and damage funding proposal is ‘clear and sensible’, and developed countries need to stop delaying, says ActionAid
Women disproportionately impacted by climate change must have their voices heard at COP27, says ActionAid
Biden’s commitments ‘far from what’s needed’ for the climate crisis now, says ActionAid
COP27 Youth and Future Generations Day: Youth activists demand a seat at the table
ActionAid calls out US claims that carbon markets will fulfill climate goals
ActionAid responds to Net Zero recommendations at COP27
ActionAid responds to the decision to include loss and damage funding on agenda at COP27
The Long Shadow of the Climate Crisis: Why a new funding facility must address loss and damage
“The climate crisis is growing, and here in Bangladesh we feel its ferocity”
Nearly 150 Organizations Call on U.S. Government to Support a Loss and Damage Finance Facility at COP27
EU Parliament increases pressure on COP27 ‘to take responsibility and act with compassion in the face of the climate crisis.’
Climate crisis to blame for high rates of cholera, says ActionAid
Global food, fuel, and fertilizer price rises are devastating local communities
The World Bank’s private sector arm – the IFC – must stop financing industrial agriculture
David Malpass should be fired as head of the World Bank
ActionAid’s reaction to UNGA proposal for a tax on polluters to address loss and damage
Part 1: For a livable planet, we need to stop TIAA’s land grabbing and greenwashing
The inevitability of a famine if the food crisis goes unaddressed
ActionAid USA response to Senate passage of the Inflation Reduction Act
European heatwaves – a glimpse into the Global South’s reality
How is the international community addressing the third global food crisis in 15 years?  
East Africa Food Crisis: Xidhinta
East Africa Food Crisis: Ceel-Hume
East Africa Food Crisis: Giro-Sumo IDP Camp
East Africa Food Crisis: Ceel-Dheere
East Africa Food Crisis: Ceel-Giniseed
Climate Justice Groups Slam California Climate Plan Ahead of Hearing
ActionAid USA applauds the U.S. contribution of $150 million to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program
Advocacy on Monetary Policies for Economic Justice: A Handbook for Civil Society
New research: Local food and fuel prices more than triple in some of the world’s most at risk communities
Doubly Devastating: Local communities disproportionately affected by food, fuel, and fertilizer price rises
ActionAid USA response to IPCC Working Group III Summary for Policymakers
ActionAid USA Statement on the President’s FY 23 Budget Request
How is global policy valuing life in our food system?
Our policy experts Alberta & Tristan COP26’s legacy, nature based solutions, and more
On the brink of another hunger crisis
IPCC report presents a harrowing catalog of climate impacts
Climate crisis fuels drought and severe hunger across the Horn of Africa
Cultivating a Small-Scale Farming Approach to Improve Food Security
20 years. 20 days. 20 ways.
Shifting Funding to Agroecology for People, Climate and Nature
ActionAid responds to U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s
COP26: Governments need to get on with making change not noise
COP26 week 1: All glitzy announcements and no real action
The Biden Administration’s AIM (Agricultural Innovation Mission) for climate is way off target
Five climate justice benchmarks for a successful COP26
Mobilizing climate finance to avoid catastrophe
World Food Day 2021: Advancing the right to food and agroecology
U.S. farmers, food and trade justice advocates call on Biden Administration to reorient approach to global food and agriculture issues
Bigger Is Not Better: The High Cost of Agribusiness Consolidation
Food systems for people, not profit
“Food Connects Us All” Grassroots Voices from North America
ActionAid USA reacts to revised U.S. climate finance pledge
Will the UN Food Systems Summit really solve hunger and climate change?
The IMF and how it’s missing the mark on a just energy transition
New research reveals how IMF policy advice undermines global climate goals by advising countries to invest in fossil fuels
University of Iowa employees to TIAA: “Stop harming communities and climate through land grabs”
IMF Surveillance and Climate Change Transition Risks: Reforming IMF policy advice to support a just energy transition
The U.S. has a tendency to tout leadership, but from our perspective, the U.S. has not really been a leader on climate if you look at what they’re actually putting on the table
Niranjali Amerasinghe, Executive Director of ActionAid USA, on the U.S. climate fair share and putting real money forward
Women and children most at risk as climate change and conflict drive migration in Afghanistan
ActionAid responds to new UN numbers showing rising global hunger
Women farmers launch new business ideas to cope with Covid-19 food crisis
ActionAid USA is concerned about Cindy McCain nomination for UN food agencies
Funding available for new country-led and producer organization-led projects
Understanding Where We Come from To Move Forward: the Struggle for Racial Justice, Land Rights, and a Just Transition for Our Food System
G7: Climate finance must be about justice and reparations
Leading Astronauts make a call to Earth ahead of the G7 summit – urging international cooperation for the sake of people and planet
University of Iowa faculty secure another win for the Stop Land Grabs campaign
Financial companies are speculating on farmland, threatening rural communities and grabbing land from family farmers and farmers of color
ActionAid USA reacts to the FY 2022 President’s budget
What should Bill and Melinda Gates do with all that farmland?
How President Biden can claim real climate leadership
The Fair Shares NDC: setting a benchmark for ambitious climate action
ActionAid USA reacts to the Biden Administration’s initial FY22 budget proposal
The Fair Shares NDC: putting climate justice at the heart of climate action
Civil society groups release “Fair Shares NDC” model for revised U.S. climate action pledge under the Paris Agreement
Why civil society organizations will boycott the UN’s Food Systems Summit unless there is a radical redirection away from corporate interests
As the biggest long-term contributor to climate-heating emissions, the United States had a moral and legal responsibility to help vulnerable communities
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns of ActionAid USA, on why we need to do more than simply re-joining the Paris Agreement
Right to food: Why the U.S. needs to step up
Great.com interviews ActionAid USA about food security
Leading environment, development & faith groups call on the Biden administration to commit $8 billion for the Green Climate Fund
Disparity to Parity: demanding living wages for all food producers
Two things Biden can do now for environmental justice
ActionAid USA says rejoining Paris Agreement is a great start, but much more needs to be done
Brazilian Government Finds that TIAA and Harvard Violated Law in Acquiring Half a Million Acres of Farmland
Diverse Coalition Calls for Systemic Policy Changes to Ensure Equity Across Our Food System
Vilsack is the wrong choice for Secretary of Agriculture
Show Up, Fight Back: Envisioning a new social contract to build a just, equitable, and sustainable future
A look back on 2020
Old dog, new tricks? John Kerry needs to lead a total reform of U.S. climate diplomacy
If TIAA’s Roger Ferguson wants to be Treasury Secretary, he should fix his farmland problem
Rejoining the Paris Agreement is a no-brainer – and only the beginning
TIAA’s Accumulation of Farmland Is Not Responsible
ActionAid USA reacts to the election of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States of America
Reflections from World Food Day: should we really still call it that?
Show Up, Fight Back: unpacking dispossession, displacement, and duo economic and climate crises
Trump’s climate denialism is an intentional blow to effective governance
Greta Thunberg pledges her support for ActionAid’s emergency response
2019 was a bold year
Le Programme Mondial pour l’agriculture et la sécurité alimentaire (GAFSP) : une recette pour atteindre l’objectif Faim « zéro »
ActionAid calls for investment in women farmers to address rising hunger
New hunger figures remind us why supporting family farmers is essential
How much do we need to pay TIAA to stop grabbing farmland?
Statement on Farmland Speculation for International Biodiversity Day 2020
U.S.-Kenya FTA and the rights to land and food
Why protecting meatpackers and farmers is good for our collective health
Anchored in solidarity: how agroecology can bring us out of crisis
With Everyone at the Table – The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program: a Recipe for Achieving Zero Hunger
ActionAid USA Executive Director testifies before congressional committee calling for increased climate finance
Principles for a Just Transition in Agriculture
Rise With Us for System Change
Joint CSO Statement from COP25: UNFCCC de-badges civil society in unprecedented crackdown on dissent
500 Groups Call for Next President to Declare National Climate Emergency
In climate talks, rich countries are getting away with murder
When governments fail, civil society sets the agenda: a look into COP 25
This Is What Bold Looks Like
Anthropologists join the call to hold TIAA accountable for farmland investments
Conservation groups champion bill to reform biofuel mandate
ActionAid USA responds to Rep. Espaillat’s Green Climate Fund Authorization Act
Women farmers restoring balance to the Earth
The Food and Agriculture Sector Development Project in The Gambia 
A month of food & land justice
Le GAFSP permet-il de toucher les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires au Sénégal?
The Next Decade Could Determine if Family Farms Survive
Agroecology: for the sake of the planet and the people
Back to the land: Why food production is central to the global crises we face
A Month of Climate Action
NYC youth and global frontline leaders disrupt Oil & Gas Climate Initiative greenwash soirée
The climate action we need doesn’t leave workers behind
UN Climate Action Summit: Three ways to breathe life into the Paris Agreement
The Armed Lifeboat
Climate Justice in the Food System
The Climate Crisis is Now: Who Needs to Do What?
When Pensions Buy Plantations: TIAA and other Wall Street Firms are Amassing Farmland in Mississippi
Sanders’ Green New Deal Plan A Good Step Towards International Climate Justice
Land and Climate in the Spotlight
It’s been a struggle to get this information.
Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, National Campaigner, ActionAid USA, on tracking down land records used by farmland investors like TIAA to meet internal requirements
ActionAid responds to UN report on land and climate change
Investing in a better future: how TIAA has it all wrong
What I learned from farmers in The Gambia about resisting climate change
Farmers Building Resilience to Climate Change in The Gambia
Part 2: TIAA’s farms up close
Part 1: TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing
BECCS: A Dangerous Distraction
The DNC got it wrong on a climate debate
Over 100 groups call for sunset of the Climate Investment Funds
Stepping Up for International Climate Justice
The Expanding Rice Production Project in Tanzania
Two Years of Arbitrary Detention: The Case of Abelino Chub Caal and Why Indigenous Land Must be Returned
Earth Day Spotlight: Freedom for Indigenous Rights Defender Abelino Chub Caal
One Minute with Jim Goodman, Board President of the National Family Farm Coalition
Is GAFSP Reaching Small-Scale Food Producers in The Gambia?
ActionAid USA Response to Climate Action Now Act
Green New Deal: What it Is and What it Isn’t
Land for Communities: Fulfilling Human Rights and Protecting the Planet
“I Want You to Panic”: Why Today’s Protests Matter
ActionAid USA Response to Green New Deal Resolution
Palm Oil Roundtable Should Suspend Membership of Groups Undermining Human Rights
Le GAFSP atteint-il les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires en Tanzanie?
Is GAFSP Reaching Small-Scale Food Producers in Tanzania?
Haitian Farmers Win Concessions to Land Rights Demands
Climate Action Must Put Everyday People at the Center
Local Women Reducing Risks to Their Communities From Natural Disasters
ActionAid Responds to U.S. Coal Side Event at COP24
Inequality, the Climate Crisis and Authoritarianism
Take A Look Back At Three Blogs We Published in 2018
ActionAid USA Toolkit for Supporter Fundraising
This Photo from California Fires Shows Why We Need to Transform the Industrial Food and Farming System Now
What You Need to Know About COP 24
ActionAid USA Responds to the EPA’s Release of the Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs)
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3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Rohingya Refugees Sent Back to Myanmar, Fishermen Suing Fossil Fuel Companies, and LGBTQ Rights in Costa Rica
Support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Rural People to Realize the Right to Food
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Venice Floods, North Carolina Joins Paris Agreement, and Oceans Absorb Heat
World Food Week in Rome and CFS 45
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Women in Agriculture, Ethiopia’s First Female President, and Tax Free Sanitary Products
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cherry Blossoms Bloom Early, Driven from Home by Climate Change, and Life Beyond 1.5°C
Climate Change and the Right to Food
International Community Development Means Fighting Colonialism and Supporting Grassroots Initiatives
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: World Warming Half A Degree, Women Blazing Trails, and Brazilian Elections
Joining Farmworkers, Farmers and Food Justice Activists to Stand for the Right to Food
Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and Food Security in Guatemala: It’s Time For Governments to be Accountable
ActionAid Responds to the IPCC Special Report on 1.5ºC
Right to Food: What It Is and Why We Support It
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sami People Fight for Rights, FGM Crackdown, Gazans Resist Blockade
Can the World Accept That Global Hunger Is Rising Again?
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Heat Days, World Hunger Spike, and Hurricane Florence
As Global Hunger, Land Grabbing, and Climate Change Continue, Time to Look at Root Causes in our Agriculture Policies
Climate Justice Demands for the Paris Rulebook
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Apps to Curb Hunger, Girl Donates Piggy Banks to Flood Relief, and Heat Waves Getting Hotter
Farming, Food Safety, and Environmental Organizations Call on DOJ to Block Bayer-Monsanto Toxic Mega Merger
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pacific Trash Vortex Cleanup, Women’s Test Scores Lowered, and First Muslim Woman in Congress
Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Land Is a Basic Human Right
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Africa Leads Fight Against Plastic, Kenyan Women Claim Their Rights, and Nigerian Woman Upcycles Tires
Trump Nominates Monsanto Seed Producer and Biofuels Baron as UN Ambassador for Food Security and Agriculture
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe Election, Global Wildfires, and Youth Voter Registration on the Rise
Trump Is Turning His Back on People Experiencing Poverty and Hunger
ActionAid Reacts to Collapse of Green Climate Fund’s 20th Board Meeting
Bioenergy Is a False Solution for Communities and the Climate, and We Need Real Solutions for Rural Economies and Ecologies
Harnessing the Power of Mother Nature and Community Action for Access to Water
We Can’t Talk About Gender Equality Without Talking About Agriculture
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Costa Rica Fossil-Free Goal, Antarctica’s First Pride Party, Baltimore’s Arabbers Keep Tradition Alive
Real Action to Keep the World Below 1.5°C
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cicig, House Farm Bill Fails, Mushroom Revolution
Improving Food Security for Farmers in Senegal
UN Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Visits Jailed Land Rights Defender in Guatemala
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinians Plan Bigger Protests, New Climate Doc, Feminist Favela
Trump Announces Changes to Biofuels Policy, but only Big Companies Benefit
“More corn ethanol doesn’t solve anyone’s problems but big business.”
Kelly Stone, Senior Policy Analyst, ActionAid USA
“More corn ethanol doesn’t solve anyone’s problems but big business.”
Kelly Stone, Senior Policy Analyst, ActionAid USA
ActionAid Reacts to White House Announcement on Renewable Fuel Standard
For Indigenous Leaders in Guatemala, Defending Their Land Can Mean Jail Time
“Get Big or Get Out”: How Biofuels Programs Prop Up Industrial Agribusiness in the United States
Industrial Agriculture is Destroying Rural Iowa and This is What It Looks Like
Agribusiness Is Devastating to Family Farmers, Rural Communities, and the Environment
Biofuels Mandates Prop Up the “Get Big or Get Out” Model of Agribusiness in Iowa
Global Governments Aren’t Embracing Agroecology – Here’s Why They Should
Malaysian Palm Oil Lobbyists Ecstatic at Misguided Guardian Article
Global Agriculture Fund Transforms Hunger Hit Villages in Nepal
Investing in Local Farmers to Reduce Poverty in Nepal – the Agriculture Food Security Project
The Nepal Agriculture Food Security Project
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: More Women in Gaza Protests, Puerto Rico Blackout, South Sudan’s Farmers Innovate
Is GAFSP reaching small-scale food producers in Senegal?
5 Reasons Pompeo is Unfit to Be Secretary of State
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Palestinians, Cambodians Claim Land Rights
Is GAFSP reaching small-scale food producers in Nepal?
Le GAFSP permet-il de toucher les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires au Népal
Le GAFSP permet-il de toucher les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires au Sénégal?
Agroecology: Scaling-up, scaling-out
Why “Climate Smart Agriculture” Won’t Save the Planet
The World Bank knows the damage its land titling program is causing and must suspend it immediately, and start talking to the local communities and civil society organizations.
Doug Hertzler, Senior Policy Analyst, ActionAid USA
World Bank Program Forcing Local Communities Off Their Land
The World Bank’s Land Program in the State of Piauí, Brazil, Is a License for Land Grabbing
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Marielle Franco, Indian Women Farmers March for Land Rights, South African Teen Invents Fire-Resistant Shack
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Quilombo Claims Land Rights, SOS from Indonesia Palm Plantation, Rwanda Leads in Female Political Representation
ActionAid USA Reaction to Introduction of GREENER Fuels Act
Corn v. Oil: Missing the Big Picture on Biofuels
The Collapse of the New Alliance and the Continued Threat of Agribusiness to Food Security
Palm Oil Pays for Human Rights Abuses, Land Grabbing, and Corruption
Still Looking Forward on Climate
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cape Town Water Crisis, Rohingya Repatriation, Honduran Women March
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: African Refugees Champion Girls’ Education, Indian Women Farmers Claim Land Rights, Indigenous Women Occupy Washington State Capitol
New Investigation into U.S. Renewable Fuels Policies Finds “Green” Biodiesel Producers Driving Massive Deforestation
Burned – Deception, Deforestation and America’s Biodiesel Policy
Agribusiness Giant Cargill Suspends Contract with Controversial Guatemalan Palm Oil Producer Over Environmental and Human Rights Violations
ActionAid USA Reaction to One Planet Summit in Paris
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: “Frontier Midwives”, Blackouts in Malawi, Mekong Review
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Struggles to Rebuild, US Military in Africa, Making Solar Roofs from Trash
ActionAid Reaction to EPA’s Renewable Volume Obligations for 2018
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Political Crisis, Plastic Pollution in the Philippines, #StopLine3
Making Sense of the Many Faces of the United States at the UN Climate Talks
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Vietnam Recovers from Typhoon Damrey, LGBTQ Rights in Guatemala, South Africa’s Black Beekeepers
U.S. Withdrawal from Hunger Fund Undermines Global Efforts to Improve Food Security: ActionAid
Equity and the Ambition Ratchet: Towards a Meaningful 2018 Facilitative Dialogue
UN Climate Negotiations Kick Off: What to Look For
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Manus Island Refugee Protest, Banksy’s Tea Party in Palestine, Brazil’s Indigenous Rappers on Land Rights
ActionAid USA Reacts to Sam Clovis’ Withdrawal from USDA Nomination
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Resisting Bayou Bridge Pipeline, Ending Child Marriage in Ghana, Pushing Women’s Rights in Kyrgyzstan
This ­World Food Day, Stand Up for the Right to Food
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ugandan Students Fight Early Marriage, No Fireworks in New Delhi, Refugees and New Yorkers Dine Together
Clean Power Plan Repeal Ignores Billions Impacted by Climate Change
Why Feminism Matters for Food Security and Nutrition
Land Rights, Palm Oil and Conflict in Guatemala
Soybean Plantations: A Threat to Communities in the Cerrado Amazon Transition Zone
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Famine Averted, Saudi Women Drive, Monitor Deforestation with an App
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Biometric Voter Registration, Beekeeping Amidst Kenyan Drought, Mayan Weavers Fight Exclusion
Human Rights Experts Uncover Alarming Human and Environmental Costs of Agribusiness
Sustainable Farms Cool the Planet
International Mission to Measure Human Rights Impact of Land Grabbing Kicks Off
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pakistan Floods, Ghanaian Farmers Demand Land Rights, Atlanta’s Pianos for Peace
“The Trump administration so far has not really shown any inclination to create policy based on realities on the ground.”
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns, ActionAid USA
“The Trump administration so far has not really shown any inclination to create policy based on realities on the ground.”
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns, ActionAid USA
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Niger’s “Husband Schools”, Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti, Chile Relaxes Abortion Ban
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sierra Leone Mudslides, Brazil Court Favors Indigenous Land Rights, Comedic Relief for Refugee Children in Europe
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Kenya Election, Nepal Bans Menstrual Exile, CO2 & Fish Food
ActionAid International Strategy 2028: Action for Global Justice
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Jordan’s ‘Marry the Rapist’ Law, Farmer Suicides in India and a Saudi Women’s Music Video
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Climate, Sugarcane, & Hantavirus in Brazil, African Women Fight Fistula, Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team
We can address the immediate food needs of families now and build lasting solutions that can help prevent this [drought] from happening again.
Marie Clarke, Executive Director, ActionAid USA
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Urban Farms, Delhi’s New Toilet App, Honduras’s Child Marriage Ban
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: G20 Protests, Countries Set Up Climate Funds, and Lebanese Café Brings Enemies Together
ActionAid Reaction to EPA Announcement on Renewable Volume Obligations for 2018
East Africa Is Facing Drought, While the White House Wants to Flex Military Muscle
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Deadly Heatwaves, Niger’s Water Crisis, and Raising Menstruation Awareness in Nepal
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Gaza Electricity Crisis, Zimbabwe’s Youth Vote, Indonesian City Revokes Permits for Palm Oil
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sustainable Farming in Indonesia, Haitian Students Learn Better in Creole, and the Tear Down This Wall! Music Festival
Paris did not bind us to do anything; those policies like the Clean Power Plan were what actually would have gotten real emissions reductions. Those fights must be fought as much as the one about Paris.
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns, ActionAid USA
Paris did not bind us to do anything; those policies like the Clean Power Plan were what actually would have gotten real emissions reductions. Those fights must be fought as much as the one about Paris.
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns, ActionAid USA
The U.S., Nicaragua and Syria: Out of the Paris Agreement, but for Very Different Reasons
ActionAid Reaction to Trump Administration’s Withdrawal From International Climate Change Treaty
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Indigenous Radio Show on Women’s Rights, Protest Camp in West Bank, Amman to Work with Youth & Refugees to Boost Economy
Donor governments must respect African ownership of renewable energy initiatives.
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns, ActionAid USA
Donor governments must respect African ownership of renewable energy initiatives.
Brandon Wu, Director of Policy & Campaigns, ActionAid USA
AREI International CSO Statement
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: 82 Chibok Girls Freed, Zika Emergency Is Over, & Renewables in the Philippines
Developing Sustainable Solutions to Food Crisis in East Africa
Invested in Exploitation – TIAA’s Links to Land Grabbing & Deforestation
TIAA tied to deforestation and displacement of farmers, environmentalists claim in new report
Indigenous and Community Land Rights Under Attack in Area Where Pensions Giant TIAA Is Amassing Land
ActionAid Joins the People’s Climate March
3 Things You May Have Missed: Vietnamese Villagers Fight for Land Rights, Aspiring Female Carmaker in Sudan, Going to School on the US-Mexico Border
#WhyWeMarch – Climate Justice Demands and the People’s Climate March
Indigenous Communities Protect Forests From Onslaught of Palm Oil Industry in Guatemala
104,481 and Counting: Calling on TIAA to Stop Investing in Land Grabs
3 Things You May Have Missed: Indigenous Land Disputes in Brazil, Sierra Leone Solar Power, Australia Makes Changes to Citizenship Process
Activists and clients tell TIAA to stop investments linked to deforestation and displacement of local farmers
Pension Funds Are Trying to Control Our Food Supply – with Our Money
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Trump’s Climate Attacks, Tackling Sexual Harassment in Mexico City, A School for Grandmas
ActionAid Reaction to Executive Orders Targeting the Environmental Protection Agency and Climate Change Policies
Shutting Down US Climate Action Is About Much More Than Just Climate Denial
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Doctors Test Ebola Vaccine, KXL Is Approved, Baseball in Gaza
Trump Agriculture Nominee Perdue Avoided Taxes by Speculating in Swampland
ActionAid Statement on Sonny Perdue’s Confirmation Hearing as Agriculture Secretary
Battle for Survival: Brave Women, Dry Rivers and Safety
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Nepal Displaces Quake Victims, Protests for Guatemalan Girls, and New Zealand River Becomes a Person
Reaction to the Trump administration’s budget blueprint and proposal to end payments to global climate programs
From Local Communities to the United Nations, Women Farmers Make Their Voices Heard
3 Things You May Have Missed: IWD Protests, Pruitt & Climate, and Somalia Declares National Disaster
Why I’m Decolonizing My Life and Following Our Native Leaders
ActionAid USA Reaction to Address to Joint Session of Congress
Selling Off Their Own Land: Brazil and US Turn Land Grabbing Into National Policy
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Horn of Africa Drought, #NODAPL Camp Evacuation, Syrian Women Call for Release of Detainees
Dirty Energy Companies Get Their Man at the EPA
ActionAid Reaction to Confirmation of Scott Pruitt as E.P.A. Administrator
Even Your Own House Is at Risk From Climate Change, Mr. Trump
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Refugees in Limbo, Thai Grandmas Fight Mining, Indian Scientists’ Cheaper Carbon Capture Method
Protests Set to Restart as Army Gives Dakota Access Pipeline Go Ahead
ActionAid USA Achieves Highest Rating From Charity Navigator
Keep Fossil Fuels Out of Trump’s #SwampCabinet
5 Reasons Rex Tillerson Shouldn’t Be the Next Secretary of State
Trump Bows to Big Oil and Gas, Green Lights Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines
If you eat food or drink water, you should be worried about Sonny Perdue as Ag Secretary
ActionAid USA Reaction to Inauguration of President Donald Trump
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia State of Emergency, Obama Administration Sends $500m to Climate Fund, Indian Anti-Trafficking Activists Win Award
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Quake Anniversary, Tillerson Hearing, Cambodia’s Black Monday Campaign
Why We #RejectRex Trump’s Choice for Secretary of State
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Eucalyptus Land Grabs in Brazil, Pakistan’s Women’s Safety App, Syrian Artists Preserve History
Why We Oppose Big Oil Boss Tillerson as Secretary of State
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: #NoDAPL Victory, Indonesia Earthquake, Circus Therapy for Refugees
Brave Women Farmers of Western Kenya Take on the Government, Build Thriving Businesses
Staring Down the “Black Snake” at Standing Rock
ActionAid USA Signs Letter to President Obama: Support Standing Rock Sioux
These African farmer women just climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to demand their land rights
These African farmer women just climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to demand their land rights
ActionAid USA Response to the EPA’s Release of the Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs)
There Is an Alternative to Ethanol and Agribusiness in Rural America
There Is an Alternative to Ethanol and Agribusiness in Rural America
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Standing Rock Doc, Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Kenya Weapon Burning
I’m Alarmed at How TIAA Is Investing My Retirement Funds
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Climate Talks, Refugees & Solar Power, Cholera Vaccines
ActionAid USA Reaction to U.S. Elections
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Italy Earthquakes, WikiLeaks, India’s Air
Is Your Pension Fund Grabbing Farmland and Violating People’s Rights?
Land and Food Risks of Cellulosic Biofuels
What does the E-10 sticker have to do with farmers around the world? @kellystone6 reviews PBS’s #TheEthanolEffect
What does the E-10 sticker have to do with farmers around the world? @kellystone6 reviews PBS’s #TheEthanolEffect
Local Women Farmers Climb Africa’s Tallest Mountain to Demand Their Land Rights
Severe Drought in Southern Africa
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa, Guatemalan Refugees & Malala Yousafzai
Land Grabs and the Extractive Energy Model: What We Can Learn from Standing Rock
The Ethanol Effect
Investing in Small-scale Agriculture: the Global Agriculture & Food Security Program
We’re seeing an unparalleled momentum to tackle climate change
Harjeet Singh, ActionAid International
We’re seeing an unparalleled momentum to tackle climate change
Harjeet Singh, ActionAid International
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Hurricane Matthew, Climate Change & Pakistan’s First Female Truck Driver
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Air Pollution, India Acid Attacks & Drought in Southern Africa
Farmers in West Africa Learn to Adapt to Climate Change Through Singing and Dancing
Protecting People’s Land Rights And Stopping Land Grabbing in Tanzania
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Climate Change, Syria & the Refugee Crisis
Delivering Decentralized, Community-Controlled Renewable Energy Access
The World Agreed to Tackle Climate Change, But What Comes Next?
Local Farmers in Brazil Risk Losing Their Land to Biofuels Production
Guatemalan Palm Oil Activist’s Killers Still At Large A Year After His Death
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Syrian Ceasefire, Indian Water Crisis & Renewable Energy in Costa Rica
Land Grabbing in Haiti: The Caracol Industrial Park
In the Fight Against Climate Change, “Renewable” Energy Isn’t Enough
Important Victories Against Agribusiness Land Grabs in Kenya
U.S. Biofuels Targets Fueling Hunger and May Lead to Increased Violence in Poor Countries
Land Grab for Sugar and Biofuels Stopped in Tanzania
Sugar Shortage in Tanzania
Le GAFSP permet-il de toucher les petits producteurs agricoles au Togo?
Le GAFSP permet-il de toucher les petits producteurs agricoles du Niger?
ActionAid USA reacts to release of 2017 Renewable Volume Obligations
One Minute With Daniel Pascual, Leader in the Guatemala Indigenous Rights Movement
Development and Biofuels
Is GAFSP reaching small-scale food producers in Malawi, Niger, & Togo?
Is GAFSP reaching small-scale food producers in Togo?
Is GAFSP reaching small-scale food producers in Niger?
One Minute With Dona Dijé of the Brazil Babassu Nut Breakers
They can’t kill Berta Caceres
From Famine to Food Secure
Climate agreement falls short of a fair deal – but Paris is only the beginning
Find a Lifeboat! If the Paris Agreement Stands, We’re All Going to Need One…
Activists Demand Justice for Killing of Guatemalan Environmental Defender
Where’s the Fairness in the Climate Talks?
Water at Risk: The impact of biofuels expansion on water resources and poverty
Fact Sheet: Biofuels and Water
Black Farmers’ Lives Matter in the United States And Around the World
Implementing the Tenure Guidelines for Women and Small-scale Food Producers
Is Rising Global Inequality a Form of Global Apartheid?
Guatemalan Activist Murdered Protesting Chemical Leak from Palm Oil Plant
Bad Neighbors: The Cost of Ethanol Production to Local Communities
New Alliance Land Grab Reported in Nigeria
The New Alliance Model Doesn’t Work: More Evidence From Tanzania
The Dirty Side of the Agribusiness Industry
A New Life on a Dead River
New Alliance, New Risk of Land Grabs: Evidence from Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania
Frozen or Failed? Sugarcane Project in Tanzania on Hold
Taking Opposition to the New Alliance to the White House
5 Reasons Why the US Administration Should End Support to the New Alliance
Take Action – Stop EcoEnergy’s Land Grab in Bagamoyo, Tanzania
A Global Agriculture Fund That Delivers for Poor Farmers?
The Problem With Biofuels Mandates
Swedish Police Investigate G8 New Alliance Biofuel Project in Tanzania
Building Back Better? The Caracol Industrial Park And Post-Earthquake Aid to Haiti
Fact Sheet: G8’s New Alliance in Africa
Sowing the Seeds of Success: The Case for Public Investment in African Smallholder Agriculture
The Great Land Heist: How the World Is Paving the Way for Corporate Land Grabs
Rising to the Challenge: Changing Course to Feed the World in 2050
Analysis of 2012 G8 Summit on Food Security: A Step Forward, A Step Back, and A Very Big Question
Camp David Accountability Report: A Step Forward for G8 Transparency, But Shows Unfinished Agenda on Hunger
Financing the Future of Food: A Case Study of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and Lessons for Donors/CSOs