🌱 Land is the source of our food – and our life.
On the International Day of #PeasantStruggles, we honour those killed in Eldorado dos Carajás – and the fight that continues.
The “land squeeze” is pushing farmers out.
We must put land back in farmers’ hands.
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#17April
🌱 Land is the source of our food – and our life.
On the International Day of #PeasantStruggles, we honour those killed in Eldorado dos Carajás – and the fight that continues.
The “land squeeze” is pushing farmers out.
We must put land back in farmers’ hands.
🎥 youtu.be/jodPbCasyIQ?...
#17April
🛒 Why are food prices still rising – and set to rise again?
⛽ Because our food systems run on fossil fuels. When energy prices spike, so do grocery bills.
We have to break food’s dependence on fossil fuels. Here's how.
👉 ipes-food.org/out-of-pocke...
#FuelToFork
Why are food prices so volatile – even when there’s enough food to go around?
A new report by @brettonwoodsproject.org shows how financial speculation is driving price swings, inequality, and hunger.
Food is being treated as a financial asset – not a human need.
Time to rein it in.
📢 New BWP report: Hard-wiring hunger
Today’s food crises are not just about scarcity — they’re about how markets are structured and priced. Financial speculation is increasingly shaping global food systems.
tinyurl.com/FoodSecurity...
Our findings ⤵️
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This week, IPES-Food panel members gathered to chart the future of food systems.
In a time of crisis, transformation is urgent.
It’s already happening – in fields, movements, and communities worldwide.
We’re here to help it grow.
#IPESFood #foodsystems #hope
Sergio Oceransky, a land defender in Yucatan has been arrested, and there's reason to worry that local land-grabbing families wish him ill in prison. Solidarity campaign news coming soon... 24horasyucatan.mx/2026/04/06/d...
Sergio Oceransky is out of jail, but not yet free. His press conference is now live here: www.facebook.com/CEPAD.GDL
FAO data shows food price index up 2.4% compared to February. No surprise that the war is driving up the cost of living on multiple fronts.
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
The workers are demanding fair wages, safety, & dignity.
They point out:
“There is so much consolidation… [Big meat firms] control 85% of the market… Everybody is being squeezed, the consumer, the supplier, workers."
A system built on concentration squeezes those at the bottom.
✊ No workers. No food.
In Colorado, 3800 marginalized workers are taking on the world’s biggest meat company #JBS.
Fighting for safety, dignity & fair pay.
“This strike is a matter of life and death.”
When workers organise, power shifts.
📖 grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...
“You could be killed.”
The reality behind some of the world’s cheapest meat.
Now 4k Colorado workers at #JBS are on strike in a historic fight for dignity & safety.
“This strike is a matter of life & death.”
📖 grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up... by @grocerynerd.bsky.social
#LabourRights
“You could be killed.”
The reality behind some of the world’s cheapest meat.
Now 4k Colorado workers at #JBS are on strike in a historic fight for dignity & safety.
“This strike is a matter of life & death.”
📖 grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up... by @grocerynerd.bsky.social
#LabourRights
Europe's farms are reeling from the Iran war. Regenerative farmers saw it coming. The Iran war has sent fertiliser prices soaring - but these farmers aren't fazed. Euronews
“Not farming regeneratively is utterly dangerous & shortsighted.”
Fertiliser & fuel shocks are exposing the insecure fragility of industrial #FoodSystems.
Low input farms that don't need chemical fertilisers are proving more resilient.
🔗 www.euronews.com/2026/03/28/e...
#Agroecology #FoodSecurity
🙌 Congratulations to our friend & colleague Sofía Monsalve Suárez on her appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
A tireless advocate for food as a human right, not a commodity.
At this critical moment, her leadership matters more than ever.
#RightToFood #HumanRights
It's not so much price controls @ retail level that we need, but rather we must tackle corporate concentration and market power by preventing big mergers and acquisitions all along food supply chains in the first place.
://www.ft.com/content/d272c711-178c-4c73-a397-5b8fac200e5f?syn-25a6b1a6=1
M&A frenzy in the first quarter of 2026 turbocharges corporate concentration and power under a highly transactional US administration. It's a repeat of the gilded age, complete with extreme wealth concentration.
www.ft.com/content/4c00...
Errol Schweizer's interview with Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, is required reading on the JBS strike.
Carey Gillam reports the latest compendium of independent glyphosate studies, pointing to serious and long term health problems www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/scie...
Chatted with @mjflepage.bsky.social at New Scientist :
“There’s a lot of potential for this to spin out of control ...If we have major climate events, it could definitely spiral into something much more severe.” www.newscientist.com/article/2521...
“The Iran war has highlighted, yet again, the collateral damage of war and the food system’s vulnerability,” writes our Jomo Sundaram
Why are we still relying on a #foodsystem that amplifies them?
🔗 www.ipsnews.net/2026/03/iran...
#FoodSystems #Geopolitics #FoodSecurity
Why are some farms weathering the fertiliser crisis better than others?
Because they don’t rely on it.
Regenerative & agroecological farming shows how to build resilience free of fossil fuels.
🔗 www.euronews.com/2026/03/28/e...
#FoodSystems #Agroecology #Fertiliser #FoodSecurity
🎥 Missed it? Catch up now.
Who is shaping #innovation in #agriculture – and in whose interests?
Watch the launch of HEAD IN THE CLOUD, unpacking digital agriculture, power, and farmer-led alternatives.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8n...
#Agroecology #FoodSystems
📢 How can we eradicate #poverty without relying on socially & environmentally damaging economic growth?
📆 Join me in person or online @ilo.org on Wednesday 22 April for the launch of the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: www.neep-poverty.org/event/eradic...
#BeyondGrowthRoadmap
Agroecological practices that enhance soil fertility and eliminate the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
Farmers are already building soil fertility, cutting reliance on synthetic fertilizers, and growing more resilient systems.
This is #agroecology – and it works.
As long as food depends on fossil fuels, hunger will always be one shock away.
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#Fertilizer #FoodSecurity
Food, fertilizer, and fossil energy prices are deeply interlinked
🌍 The fertilizer crisis unfolding following conflict in the #Gulf is a warning of a food price crisis to come.
➡️ A food system tied to the price of oil
➡️ Rising input costs for farmers
➡️ Higher and volatile food prices
➡️ Growing #hunger
#Hormuz #fertilizer
Agroecological practices that enhance soil fertility and eliminate the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
Farmers are already building soil fertility, cutting reliance on synthetic fertilizers, and growing more resilient systems.
This is #agroecology – and it works.
As long as food depends on fossil fuels, hunger will always be one shock away.
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#Fertilizer #FoodSecurity
Fertilizer production relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels.
This is the deeper issue:
Our #foodsystem is hooked on fossil fuels.
🛢️A system tied to the price of oil means shocks in energy markets quickly become food crises.
This vulnerability is built in. It's a choice.
🌱 It doesn’t have to be this way.
Food, fertilizer, and fossil energy prices are deeply interlinked
🌍 The fertilizer crisis unfolding following conflict in the #Gulf is a warning of a food price crisis to come.
➡️ A food system tied to the price of oil
➡️ Rising input costs for farmers
➡️ Higher and volatile food prices
➡️ Growing #hunger
#Hormuz #fertilizer
🐘How do we confront power in food systems?
If we want transformation, we need to tackle who controls land, data & decisions.
Join us 25 March with @thenewschool.bsky.social, @slowfoodhq.bsky.social & others.
📅 15:00 CET
🔗 event.newschool.edu/theelephanta...
#FoodSystems #FoodSovereignty
