April 17 is a day that reminds us that the Burkinabé, African, and international peasantry must be the heartbeat of livelihoods in our communities and must therefore be at the center of the claims being made to sovereignty.

On the African continent, the question of sovereignty is not a populist watchword. It is the defining question of the moment.

Malaysian farmers warn against dangers posed by joining International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plant (UPOV), which imposes strict restrictions on saving and using seeds.

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.

Farmer groups claim that the proposed bill is an attempt to reintroduce provisions of laws which the ultra-right-wing government was forced to withdraw after a year-long protest in Delhi in 2020-21.

Kenyan activist Ruth Nyambura of the African Ecofeminist Collective spoke to Peoples Dispatch in Caracas, Venezuela during the International Peoples’ Assembly in February.

A boycott campaign was launched against the US food and beverage company PepsiCo after it sued nine Gujarati farmers over patent rights