Global Movements
News & Views on Global Movements
NEW Via Campesina Sets an International Agenda, Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, August 8, 2007.
[FOODNEWS] Dispelling the Myth of Agribusiness in Brazil, MST (Brazil's Landless Workers Movement), ZNet, February 22, 2006.
Farming for Families and Food, Not Corporate Profits,
Corrina Steward, Silver City, NM & Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, April 19, 2005.
Food Aid or Food Sovereignty, Frederic Moussuae, Oakland Institute, 2005.
How to
Get Informed On Global Struggles, Peter Mann, WHY Speaks, April 10, 2003.
Information on globa struggles around hunger and food, water, land, seeds, sustainable agriculture and fisheries.
NEW [FOODNEWS] Mexico’s Tortilla Crisis, Amber McNair, Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico,
March 19, 2007.
Movimiento Campesino a Campesino: Linking Sustainable Agriculture and Social Change, Eric Holt-Giménez, Food First Backgrounder, Winter/Spring 2006.
[FOODNEWS] Organic farming could help reduce rural poverty: UN study,
Source: www.un.org/news, January 25, 2005.
www.ifad.org January 25, 2005.
[FOODNEWS] Stowing Seeds for Disaster, Susan Sachs,
The Globe and Mail, Thursday, January 12, 2006
Two Myths That Keep The World Poor, Vandana Shiva, Ode Magazine, Issue 28
Links & Resources on Global Movements
The Blue Planet Project
The Blue Planet Project is a not-for-profit group which brings together international,
like-minded organizations and individuals
who share the belief that the right to water must be protected.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Fair wage, workers right's
and anti-slavery are among their pro-worker campaigns.
Landless Worker Movement
Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement - in Portuguese, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais
Sem Terra (MST) - is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5
million landless members organized in 23 out of 27 states. The MST advocates for and carries out long-overdue
land reform in a country rife with unjust land distribution.
Rural Development Institute
RDI is an international land law and policy group
fighting rural landlessness, one of the chief structural causes of global poverty.
Via Campesina
Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations
of small and medium-sized producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous
communities from Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
“Water for All” Campaign
Information about the global movement against the corporate takeover of water.
