Following the CFS Dialogue on Financing for Food Security and Nutrition, the CSIPM has published a press release, and the zine Trade, debt and financialization: What it has to do with the food on your plate.
🎥 Recordings of the statements delivered by Morgan Ody (LVC), Ibrahima Coulibaly (ROPPA/PAFO), and Shiney Varghese (IATP) are available here in their original languages.
On March 30, 2025, the European Citizens’ Initiative on the Right to Food has been submitted to the European Commission. We are now awaiting confirmation, but the movement is already in motion. It’s time to organize.
We are inviting organizations, as a participant in the Geneva Democratic Forum or as a committed actor in the fight for justice, to join Good Food for All – EU and help shape this campaign from the ground up.
Join the Coalition !
If your organization supports the Right to Food and wants to be part of this European force for change, please fill out this short form to officially express your interest in joining the coalition:
→ Join the Coalition Form
The Agroecology Schools Toolkit has been designed to support agroecology schools facilitators and young organisations in starting their own agroecology schools. Through horizontal knowledge-sharing organisations expand leadership, expertise and tools across community research, education and political work to promote agroecology at the international, national and regional levels.
The Toolkit is available in English and россия / Russian; and has been partially translated in Arabic / اللغة العربية and Farsi/ الفارسية
We want to share with you a report from AgroPermaLab that collects our experiences, reflections, and methodologies gathered over two years during the Polish School of Agroecology.
This unique initiative, held in 2023 and 2024, brought together participants from diverse backgrounds to co-create an agroecological future. Hosted at the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów, the program combined hands-on experiences, expert-led sessions, and community-building activities to empower individuals and organizations to transform the food system.
Over 100 movements and organizations stand together through the Peoples’ Manifesto on the Right to Food demanding political action towards agroecology and climate-resilient food systems, prioritisation of territorial markets, gender justice, land redistribution and peace.
Join the call and read more about the urgent actions needed to realize the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition: https://bit.ly/3U3trTR
We are pleased to share IPES-Food’s latest report, “Food from Somewhere: Building food security and resilience through territorial markets ” which highlights the importance of local, place-based food systems. The report calls on governments to strengthen local and regional food infrastructure, redirect public procurement and food security strategies towards local sourcing, and reduce corporate control over food systems. You can access the full report and watch the webinar recording here !
Read ECVC’s new set of policy recommendations for international and regional organisations, European policy-makers, and national and local authorities, in order to push for the implementation of UN Declaration of the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) and promote peasants’ rights. https://www.eurovia.org/publications/55300/
Understanding the governance challenges created by ‘generative biology’ –
integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with synthetic biology.
Organized by ETC Group, African Center for Biodiversity, TWN – Third World Network
Thursday, 12 September
14:00 Central European Summer time/ Central African time (UTC+2)
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Register to join here:
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Overview
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has for 30 years governed new developments in biotechnology, in the frame of precaution and justice, and has also recently established a process of technology horizon scanning, assessment, and monitoring of new developments. Now, there is an industrial attempt to converge next-generation genetic engineering tools (synthetic biology) with generative AI (of the sort used by ChatGPT) in a new “generative biology” industry.
On the agenda…
· Why the CBD’s expert groups propose an urgent assessment of this newest AI-biotech convergence.
· How the use of generative AI in biology brings thorny new problems stemming from the opaque and error-prone ‘black box’ character of generative AI.
· How the world’s largest digital tech companies (including Google, Microsoft, Amazon and NVIDIA) are fuelling a ‘generative biology rush’, including a bold biopiracy grab of all the world’s digital sequence information on genomic resources.
· What can be done at COP 16 in Cali, Colombia?
The webinar will be held in English, French and Spanish
