CAMPAIGNERS marked the International Day of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Struggle today by calling for an immediate end to the persecution of peasant movements and their leaders.
La Via Campesina, a global movement of peasants, small and medium-sized producers, landless, women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers, highlighted the importance of food sovereignty in ensuring a future for humanity.
“Governments are choosing capitalism at all costs,” the group warned.
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results



