Food sovereignty Small-scale farming, which aims to feed local people, is rapidly being replaced by large-scale industrialised agriculture. The climate crisis creates an additional threat to food production. FoEI supports small-scale peasant farmers resisting the corporate powers that are destroying their livelihoods and bringing hunger and conflict to their communities. We need to build global food systems based on diverse, localised agroecological solutions that people determine and control themselves.
It is essential that we build global food systems based on diverse, localised agricultural solutions. People should be allowed to determine and control their own food systems. This form of agriculture also helps communities become more resilient to climate change. Friends of the earth International supports small scale peasant farmers in resisting the corporate powers that destroy their livelihoods and bring hunger and conflict to their communities. We help build bridges between people and their food; between those who produce and those who consume food.
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In focus
Promoting the destruction of peasant and family farming?
Promoting the destruction of peasant and family farming?
World Food Day -- a day to remember that nearly a billion people in the
world are hungry despite the fact that there is enough food to go
around. Food has been turned into a mere commodity to be exported,
traded and speculated upon, rather than a basic human right.
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- Organic farming dwarves GM crops in Europe as public rejection hits biotech firms
- Public resistance to genetically modified crops has ensured that the area grown in Europe in 2011 remained at 0.1 per cent of all arable land, shows figures released by Friends of the Earth Europe. In comparison, organic farming accounted for 3.7 per cent.
- GM giant BASF leaves Europe
- Friends of the Earth International is delighted to hear that Germany-based BASF is halting the development and commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe.
- European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger
- European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to a report by Friends of the Earth Europe.
