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La Via Campesina’s Press Statement | September 22nd 2021, Harare: La Via Campesina is among scores of other social movements of organized small-scale food producers, workers and indigenous people boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), slated to take place in New York – September 23rd, 2021. Peoples’ movements are united in condemning the […]

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 Today the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), representing some 200 million small-scale food producers, alongside 160 international organizations from 40 countries, release an open letter calling on donors to stop funding the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Our Alliance in June wrote to AGRA’s donors asking them to

Policital declaration on the Food System Summit available here. Sign here and share the declaration widely. –> foodsystems4people.org

Check : https://www.foodsystems4people.org/ Open letter from CFS and HLPE Chairs as well as UN Special Rapporteurs to UN Secretary-General on the UN Food Systems Summit September 10, 2021 Secretary-General António GuterresUnited NationsUN Headquarters, S-3800New York, NY 10017Re: UN Food Systems Summit Your Excellency, We are writing with regard to this month’s UN Food Systems Summit.

Schola Campesina is participating in a rich partnership on the issue of knowledge transmission in agroecology (Erasmus + 2020-2022). In agroecology, knowledge is central. KNOWLEDGE Is where innovations is needed the most. Is where digitalization of agriculture has a huge impact. Is our autonomy, our idenrtity, our main resource. In Europe, new entrants in agriculture

23 July 2021 This working paper seeks to support food producers’ organizations and other grassroots-based organizations in the complex debate on digitalization. It highlights four critical issues when considering digitalization in agriculture from a food sovereignty perspective: (1) the practice of digitalization is not neutral but supports large-scale food production systems at the expense of

‘Technology sovereignty’ – what kind of innovation and technology do small-scale food producers need and want?”, The online event took place as part of the peoples’ mobilization against the UN Food Systems Summit on July 27th. The recording is available here: Resources shared by the organizers: Schola Campesina digitalization in agriculture from a food sovereignty

Check: https://www.foodsystems4people.org The video -from CAWR Coventry University- presents a critique of multistakeholderism and explains what’s wrong with the UN Food System Summit approach to people’s participation.