Over the last few years we’ve been showing how the European Union’s biofuels targets have led to land grabs and food insecurity in developing countries. Europe’s thirst for fuel has had a huge...
She was a victim of the food crisis that threatened the lives of millions of people across East Africa a year ago. To her, help came in time and she survived. I have met six-year-old Sadia Abdullah,...
Imagine a group of people, thousands strong, who are constantly told they are of no human value; a community who can be beaten at will, whose women other men are free to rape without fear of...
With case study evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Pakistan, and citing global studies and surveys, this report argues that agro-ecology – or ecological agriculture – offers...
The women’s land rights project is being implemented by ActionAid (AA) in Guatemala, India and Sierra Leone in recognition of the hard fact that struggles for women’s land rights have not yet...
1992 was a time when it seemed fairly futuristic to talk about environment degradation, climate change, green economy but twenty years later with ever more alarming statistics on poverty and hunger...
World leaders agreed today to support European efforts to integrate European banking sectors in a bid to support governments affected by the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Heads of state had earlier...
The G20 summit’s now wrapped up. In a summit otherwise dominated by the Eurozone crisis, our small team – together with our partners from ANEC, a Mexican farmer’s network – have been pushing our...
