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Agroecological production
Members of MVIWATA in Tanzania MVIWATA’s 30th AGM: Forging a stronger farmers’ movement in Tanzania

The Annual General Meeting of the organization brought together hundreds of farmers in dialogue about the situation facing farmers in Tanzania and how to continue fighting corporate capture of agriculture.

Indigenous seed exchange Kenya’s High Court rules in favor of smallholder farmers and indigenous seeds

The landmark ruling secures farmers’ right to save, share, and exchange indigenous seeds, by decriminalizing it and safeguarding traditional farming heritage.

SADC reiterates call for “unconditional lifting” of “illegal” US sanctions on Zimbabwe

For over two decades, US-led sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe in retaliation to its land reforms have tolled the toiling farmers and workers of the southern African country.

From Asia to Latin America: global agro-ecological produce debuted at the MST Fair

Foreign organizations sell their products and want to strengthen alternative model of cultivation in the world

MST members What’s behind the attack against Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement?

The Chamber of Deputies, dominated by the right, has set up a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to investigate “the real purpose” of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement

The MST has donated more than six thousand tons of food during the pandemic to fight hunger

Just during the Christmas Without Hunger campaign, the MST distributed food donations to 250,000 people in 24 Brazilian states

How did Nicaragua reduce hunger and malnutrition?

Despite crippling, unilateral sanctions and globally rising food prices, hunger levels in Nicaragua have been falling. How has this been achieved?

Hunger and food production in Nicaragua: how do we feed the people?

As hunger and food insecurity increases globally, the Sandinista government in Nicaragua has been working for the last decade to strengthen local food production and ensure food sovereignty in the face of sanctions

Agro-ecology project links peasant production to urban communes in Venezuela

In five years of Pueblo a Pueblo, 1,500 tons of food was distributed to more than 300,000 families throughout the country

Argentine court rules to evict agroecological Artigas Project

Dolores Etchevehere who resisted the eviction was detained while her brothers took possession of the property which movements along with Dolores had sought to convert into an agroecological productive farm

MST families violently evicted after 60 hours of resistance

The families were evicted from Quilombo Campo Grande camp where they have lived and produced food for the past two decades

After 60 hours of resistance, MST camp is violently evicted

Police destroyed 20-year-old homes and agroecological crops during the violent eviction