China ramped up industrial pig farming after the African Swine Fever outbreak. Result? China’s pig herd swells but pork prices dropped to their lowest in eight years, with consumer demand continuing to fall as they dislike the low quality of industrial pork.
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«Le modèle de marché carbone qui s’installe en Espagne est le modèle anglo‑saxon: l’agriculteur renonce à ses droits sur le carbone de son sol en échange d’un paiement unique, généralement faible, et perd tout pouvoir de décision sur ses propres terres pendant des décennies». farmlandgrab.org/33408
South Africa's public pension fund is dumping its industrial poultry operation, Daybreak Foods. In 2025, the farm's financial woes led to fiasco: workers laid off & over a million chickens brutalised. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Background: grain.org/e/7317 @safcei.bsky.social @ciwf.org
Belle interview avec Fanny Métrat sur la solidarité de La Vía Campesina avec les paysan·nes palestinien·nes face l’accaparement des terres israélien et la destruction de leurs semences : agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2026/03... @confpaysanne.bsky.social @viacampesina.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
REDSAG alerta sobre el avance del uso de semillas transgénicas en Guatemala. También denuncia que la posible incorporación del país a la UPOV amenaza las semillas cuidadas por comunidades prensacomunitaria.org/2026/03/reds...
Join us at 2pm BST on 8th April for a webinar on the dangers of growing biofuel demand in international shipping, with panellists from @grain.org and WALHI Riau. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Thai conglomerate CP Foods announced a "localised" production strategy across 17 countries where they operate to deal with geopolitical and supply chain challenges. CP production includes processed foods, pork, poultry, aquaculture, and animal feed. www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2026...
Plantations, ports, chemins de fer : une grande partie de la fortune de Vincent Bolloré provient de ses activités africaines. S'il s’en est en partie retiré, la justice française et des organisations des droits humains lui demandent aujourd’hui des comptes.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...
Despite uncertainty following US Supreme Court decisions to strike down Trump’s tariff, farmers, labor organizers, healthcare workers, faith leaders, economists, climate experts, and more from across the world are resisting the US imperialism through trade deals. www.citizen.org/news/compila...
Bioceres, the Argentine company behind the HB4 GM wheat, is in deep financial trouble, noting a growing concern about its "ability to continue". Bioceres' GM wheat has been OK'ed for cultivation in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and the US. www.world-grain.com/articles/225... @gmwatch.bsky.social
🔊National Farmers Union Canada and SeedChange dissect into Canada seed regulation history and changes that have been pushed by the government currently and how that affects farmers' seeds and breeds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGpS...
@nfucanada.bsky.social
The city of Hanoi plans to consolidate slaughterhouses & relocate livestock farming because of disease transmission risks. Small-scale farms and butchers are once again falsely blamed for spreading diseases that are rampant within corporate farms and meat plants avinews.com/en/hanoi-pus...
Many govts use the term "food sovereignty" to describe a nationalist & militaristic vision of self-sufficiency, which they want to achieve through large-scale industrial agriculture led by agribusiness, despite its track record of failure & harm to local communities
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In Argentina, the president is asking congress to change the law to allow foreigners to own farmland.
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The Gates Foundation and its African agriculture arm "AGRA" paid some PR people to remove critical content from AGRA’s Wikipedia page. Tim Wise, whose findings were erased by these edits, tells the story: www.theelephant.info/analysis/202... @timschwab.bsky.social @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social
Entretien avec l'avocat Fiodor Rilov et le producteur du film "Les pilleurs de terre" sur la lutte des riverain·es des plantations de Socfin/Bolloré au Cambodge et au Cameroun
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mABA... @asso-sherpa.bsky.social @ccfd-tsolidaire.bsky.social @fidh-official.bsky.social
Neuf millions d’hectares de terres agricoles dans les pays du Sud font déjà l'objet de contrats pour des crédits carbone. Les nouveaux marchés liés à l’article 6 de l’Accord de Paris (projets entre Etats) risquent d'aggraver cette ruée vers les terres des communautés. grain.org/e/7367
📻 Witness Radio of Uganda interviews Counsel Reuben Kiiru of Kenya on the draft East African Community seed bill, which people are concerned may restrict farmers' ability to save, exchange and use their own seeds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXTU... @witnessradio.bsky.social @swissaid.bsky.social
Milei llama “idiotas” a las actuales regulaciones sobre semillas. Con el apoyo a UPOV91 que favorece a las corporaciones, pretende desmontarlas poniendo en riesgo la diversidad genética, la agricultura campesina y la soberanía alimentaria www.infocampo.com.ar/milei-si-no-...
Jack Thompson analyses the impact that the war on Iran could have on the UAE's food security strategy, which relies on access to Africa's farmland via companies like Elite Agro and Al Dahra
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...
@newlinesmag.bsky.social @ipes-food.org
ICYMI : Le fonds de pension norvégien lâche Bolloré, qui ne cesse de fermer les yeux sur les problèmes dans les plantations Socfin
blogs.mediapart.fr/grain/blog/0... @fianbelgium.bsky.social @lessoulevements.bsky.social @asso-sherpa.bsky.social
The permanent people's tribunal declaration in defence of seeds recognise the systematic & structural mechanism that threatens peasants' seeds which has direct consequences for livelihoods, health, food sovereignty & management of biodiversity. permanentpeoplestribunal.org/the-permanen...
Alrededor de 14 mil mujeres del MST de Brasil se movilizan por reforma agraria y justicia social., Denunciando el acaparamiento de tierras y la violencia de género en del Día Internacional de la Mujer www.telesurtv.net/brasil-mujer... @brasilfato.bsky.social
Up to now, 9 million hectares of farmland in the global South were already seized for carbon credit deals. This was before carbon markets under the Paris Agreement's article 6 got under way. Now, the rush for community land could get worse. grain.org/e/7357
La expansión de la inteligencia artificial está multiplicando los conflictos por el agua y el territorio en Latinoamérica. Según ETC Group se construyen entre 120 y 130 data centers de hiper escala a nivel mundial, y se calcula que habrá unos 800 nuevos hasta 2030 es.mongabay.com/2026/03/inte...
New investigation by @desmog.com
finds off-shore fishmeal factories illegally harvesting thousands of tonnes of small fish in a protected area of Guinea-Bissau. More evidence of how industrial fish farms feed on the destruction of local food systems www.desmog.com/2026/03/08/h...
El gobierno de Bolivia autorizó la siembra de soya HB4 genéticamente modificada, abriendo paso a más transgénicos en el país. Se plantea una producción de 2.5 millones de toneladas anuales de este monocultivo www.vision360.bo/noticias/202...
La multinationale agroalimentaire suisse Socfin est sous le feu des critiques pour ses plantations de palmiers à huile et de caoutchouc en Afrique de l’Ouest, où des cas d’exploitation, de conflits fonciers et de violences sexuelles sont régulièrement signalés. #Bolloré
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India's fortified rice programme has been stopped, as govt sees it's not working for farmers, nor for consumers. As stockpiles rise, nutrition is being lost and there is more demand for rice to make ethanol! This failed programme was pushed by groups funded by Bill Gates. thewire.in/government/y...
