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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
The inevitability of a famine if the food crisis goes unaddressed
How is the international community addressing the third global food crisis in 15 years?  
Doubly Devastating: Local communities disproportionately affected by food, fuel, and fertilizer price rises
On the brink of another hunger crisis
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
The Biden Administration’s AIM (Agricultural Innovation Mission) for climate is way off target
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 responds to new UN numbers showing rising global hunger
Women farmers launch new business ideas to cope with Covid-19 food crisis
Advancing the rights of women smallholder farmers – lessons from COVID-19
ActionAid USA is concerned about Cindy McCain nomination for UN food agencies
Funding available for new country-led and producer organization-led projects

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Financial companies are speculating on farmland, threatening rural communities and grabbing land from family farmers and farmers of color
What should Bill and Melinda Gates do with all that farmland?
Why civil society organizations will boycott the UN’s Food Systems Summit unless there is a radical redirection away from corporate interests
Great.com interviews ActionAid USA about food security
Human rights must be top priority for the new U.S. Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome
Diverse Coalition Calls for Systemic Policy Changes to Ensure Equity Across Our Food System
Show Up, Fight Back: Envisioning a new social contract to build a just, equitable, and sustainable future
A look back on 2020
Ferguson, up for Treasury Secretary, leaves a legacy of misleading claims to social responsibility
Reflections from World Food Day: should we really still call it that?

Pledge support for a just transition in food!

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Show Up, Fight Back: connecting the struggle for land rights to the struggle for racial justice
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
Building on past success to prevent a COVID-19-related food crisis
We believe GAFSP is the best tool to support food security and nutrition in the time of COVID-19.
Niranjali Amerasinghe, Executive Director, & Alberta Guerra, Senior Policy Analyst, of ActionAid USA on how supporting small-scale food producers can prevent a future global food crisis.
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
Coronavirus and the food system: a shock in logistics, not supply
Principles for a Just Transition in Agriculture
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
Climate Justice in the Food System
What I learned from farmers in The Gambia about resisting climate change
The Expanding Rice Production Project in Tanzania
One Minute with Jim Goodman, Board President of the National Family Farm Coalition
Is GAFSP Reaching Small-Scale Food Producers in The Gambia?
Why David Malpass as World Bank Chief Would Reinforce Global Inequalities
Le GAFSP atteint-il les petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires en Tanzanie?
Is GAFSP Reaching Small-Scale Food Producers in Tanzania?
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
ActionAid USA Responds to the EPA’s Release of the Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs)
Here Are Three Things We Achieved Together in 2018
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Poor Diets, Venezuelan Refugees, and More Women in Congress
Support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Rural People to Realize the Right to Food
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
Climate Change and the Right to Food
International Community Development Means Fighting Colonialism and Supporting Grassroots Initiatives
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
Trump Weaponizes Childhood Food Assistance in Violation of the Human Right to Food
Right to Food: What It Is and Why We Support It
Can the World Accept That Global Hunger Is Rising Again?
As Global Hunger, Land Grabbing, and Climate Change Continue, Time to Look at Root Causes in our Agriculture Policies
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinian Roof Gardens, Swedish Election, and Venezuelans Fleeing Shortages
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
Trump Nominates Monsanto Seed Producer and Biofuels Baron as UN Ambassador for Food Security and Agriculture
Haitian Development Starts with Haiti
Trump Is Turning His Back on People Experiencing Poverty and Hunger
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
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
“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
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?
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
Documents Forged with Cricket Poop Used to Legalize Land Claims in Brazil as World Bank Project Opens Doors to Land Grabbers
Why “Climate Smart Agriculture” Won’t Save the Planet
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Marielle Franco, Indian Women Farmers March for Land Rights, South African Teen Invents Fire-Resistant Shack
The Collapse of the New Alliance and the Continued Threat of Agribusiness to Food Security
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
African Farmers Conduct Audits to Track How Government Money Is Spent
Agribusiness Giant Cargill Suspends Contract with Controversial Guatemalan Palm Oil Producer Over Environmental and Human Rights Violations
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Wildfires Affect Farmworkers, South Sudanese Women Want Peace, Syrian Teen Wins Peace Prize
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
ActionAid USA Reacts to Sam Clovis’ Withdrawal from USDA Nomination
This ­World Food Day, Stand Up for the Right to Food
Why Feminism Matters for Food Security and Nutrition
Soybean Plantations: A Threat to Communities in the Cerrado Amazon Transition Zone
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Biometric Voter Registration, Beekeeping Amidst Kenyan Drought, Mayan Weavers Fight Exclusion
Sustainable Farms Cool the Planet
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: Karate Cops in India, Young Farmers in the U.S., Pedal Power in Africa
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: Deadly Heatwaves, Niger’s Water Crisis, and Raising Menstruation Awareness in Nepal
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
Developing Sustainable Solutions to Food Crisis in East Africa
104,481 and Counting: Calling on TIAA to Stop Investing in Land Grabs
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
Trump Agriculture Nominee Perdue Avoided Taxes by Speculating in Swampland
ActionAid Statement on Sonny Perdue’s Confirmation Hearing as Agriculture Secretary
From Local Communities to the United Nations, Women Farmers Make Their Voices Heard
Food and Farm Groups Oppose Andrew Puzder for Labor Secretary
If you eat food or drink water, you should be worried about Sonny Perdue as Ag Secretary
7 Years After Devastating Earthquake, Local Women Leading Hurricane Matthew Response
Brave Women Farmers of Western Kenya Take on the Government, Build Thriving Businesses
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
Land and Food Risks of Cellulosic Biofuels
Local Women Farmers Climb Africa’s Tallest Mountain to Demand Their Land Rights
Severe Drought in Southern Africa
Investing in Small-scale Agriculture: the Global Agriculture & Food Security Program
Farmers in West Africa Learn to Adapt to Climate Change Through Singing and Dancing
Local Farmers in Brazil Risk Losing Their Land to Biofuels Production
Land Grabbing in Haiti: The Caracol Industrial Park
In the Fight Against Climate Change, “Renewable” Energy Isn’t Enough
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?
One Minute With Daniel Pascual, Leader in the Guatemala Indigenous Rights Movement
Plans to Dump U.S. Grown Peanuts Into Haiti Represent Yet Another Failed Policy
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?
Is GAFSP reaching small-scale food producers in Malawi?
Poor Hit Hardest as East Africa Drought Worsens
Transforming Communities in Ethiopia in Just 13 Years!
From Famine to Food Secure
Black Farmers’ Lives Matter in the United States And Around the World
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
New Alliance, New Risk of Land Grabs: Evidence from Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania
Frozen or Failed? Sugarcane Project in Tanzania on Hold
New USAID Administrator Must Fix Broken Policies
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
US-funded Industrial Park Forces Haitian Farmers Off Their Land
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