Les Emiratis, qui contrôlent 960 000 ha de terres agricoles à l'etranger, achètent 35% de Limagrain, Nº5 mondial des semences www.usinenouvelle.com/article/le-f... (Voir aussi grain.org/e/7173) @infogm.bsky.social @confpaysanne.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social

Scientists "discover" a vast reality of "unreported" oil palm production outside the grips of corporate plantations in Africa. Over 600mn hectares of village palm groves, unaccounted for till now, are hailed for their importance to food sovereignty. More: www.facebook.com/share/1BEXGt...

AGRA, the Gates-funded driver of industrial agriculture in Africa, is building corporate ties. It has just formed a partnership with OlamAgri, the Saudi-owned agribusiness juggernaut, to expand operations in Nigeria & Ghana. asiafoodjournal.com/olam-agri-an...

The #EAC Seed & Plant Varieties Bill, 2025, is a potential threat to smallholder farmers, as it aims to disengage them from the agriculture business, according to experts. @grain.org @seedsaverswap.bsky.social @swissaid.bsky.social Read more: witnessradio.org/the-eac-seed...

The Bezos Earth Fund and Amazon are closely linked. Both promote carbon markets. Carbon offsets are Amazon's false solution to its rapidly increasing emissions - which are largely a result of AI. Post based on a report by @grain.org. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/billionair...

Le milliardaire nigérian, Aliko Dangote, va construire en Ethiopie l’une des plus grandes usines d’engrais azotés du continent africain. Une façon pour lui d’afficher sa volonté « d’industrialiser l’Afrique ». l-frii.com/aliko-dangot...

Bayer impulsa semillas “inteligentes” y edición genética para supuestamente enfrentar el cambio climático y mejorar la agricultura en México, sin importar la agrobiodiversidad y soberanía alimentaria www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/sem... @etcgroup.bsky.social

Pobladores de Tabasco en #México protestan en el Congreso local exigiendo recuperación de derechos agrarios, reforma a artículos Constitucionales y revisión del #TLCAN para limitar transgénicos. Piden que la propiedad ejidal vuelva a sus manos xeva.com.mx/tabasco/2695... @lughiotto.bsky.social

A deadly pig virus is once again ripping through Estonia’s factory pig farms, destroying up to half the national pork supply. Biosafety regulations imposed after the last African Swine Fever outbreak in 2015 are not working. ukragroconsult.com/en/news/asf-... Background: grain.org/en/article/6...

🚨 Accaparement de terre et violence contre les paysan·nes au Madagascar : « Le gouvernement dit qu'il veut lutter contre la pauvreté, mais ce sont les riches qui semblent avoir tous les droits contre nous, les paysans ». www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/... @collectiftany.bsky.social

“The voluntary carbon market is broken,” experts say, as new research shows systemic flaws in the auditing process. news.mongabay.com/2025/09/inde...

As genocide rages and Palestinians are forcefully starved, on the other side of the Gazan border, Israelis are developing a US$2mn agave project for luxury tequila markets. This is part of the apartheid strategy in the Naqab region, says @lukewcarneal.bsky.social. thebaffler.com/latest/shots...

El agronegocio busca controlar el comercio exterior e interior de cereales en #Argentina, mediante el río Paraná, el tren Belgrano Cargas y la Marina Mercante. El lobby de multinacionales como Cofco, Cargill y Bunge favorece así la concentración de cultivos agenciatierraviva.com.ar/las-agroexpo...

De nombreux textes juridiques ont été développés pour prétendument protéger les droits des paysan·nes concernant les semences. Mais la plupart sont subordonnées aux intérêts des entreprises. Comment agir ? grain.org/e/7312

🔥 Farmers, youth, women, academes and faith leaders in Negros Occidental, the Philippines, are rising up to stop an ordinance that would allow the release of GMOs into their territory. www.rappler.com/philippines/...

El aguacate es un cultivo insostenible, sobre todo por el consumo de agua. Sin embargo, un megaproyecto de Qultiva Farms recibe 37 millones de euros de fondos públicos y del Banco Santander para adquirir más tierras en el Estado español. www.freshplaza.com/north-americ... @ecologistasenaccion.org

A top Canadian pension fund (La Caisse) and Australia’s green bank (CEFC) have established a fund to buy farms and generate carbon credits for UK/Aussie mining giant Rio Tinto farmlandgrab.org/post/33040-c...

Over the past two years, war in Sudan has killed over 150,000 people & displaced another 12 million from their homes. The "largest displacement crisis in the world" is also the world's first officially declared famine since 2020 (Background: grain.org/e/7255)

Big news: New Zealand’s dairy co-op Fonterra is selling its global consumer business to France’s Lactalis, the world’s #1 dairy company, for US$2.2bn. What does this mean? 🧵 (1/4) www.fonterra.com/nz/en/our-st... @nickofnz.bsky.social @iatp.bsky.social @attac.org @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social

This week Philippine President signed the law which allows lease of private lands by foreign investors up to 99 years. Farmers groups denouncing this law which according to them will intensified land grabbing & violence against rural communities and urban poor www.farmlandgrab.org/post/33041-p...

Bayer y MRM #Brasil apuestan por “la innovación” a través de la digitalización de la agricultura. Para el campo, esto implica más despojo y mientras avanzan los monocultivos y el agronegocio. roastbrief.com.mx/2025/08/baye... @brasildefatomg.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social

New article by @highcountrynews.org shows how agribusiness has used the US as a lab for extreme corporate control. In the meat sector, for example, Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef process 81% of the cattle. www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/... @iatp.bsky.social @ggjalliance.bsky.social

South Africa's legally-binding 2019 rooibos tea agreement, which was supposed to recognise & strengthen the role of Indigenous and local communities, "has not changed who owns and benefits most from rooibos". theconversation.com/south-africa... @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social @wominafrica.bsky.social

The 3rd Global Nyeleni Forum on Food Sovereignty is commencing in Kandy, Sri Lanka with around 600 delegates from 120 countries are participating to discuss solutions and priorities for the future of collective struggle for food sovereignty. ceylontoday.lk/2025/08/30/n...

El gobierno de #Brasil multa a JBS y confisca 7 mil cabezas de ganado ilegal en la Amazonía. La carne se exporta principalmente a Estados Unidos y causa elevada deforestación, amenazando la biodiversidad y la soberanía alimentaria. www.bloomberglinea.com/negocios/bra... @gfc-forest.bsky.social

Seed Savers Network Kenya & allies are discussing what the East African Community Seed and Plant Varieties Act 2025 means for smallholder farmers in the region. Please join: 🗓️ 11 Sep 🕒 15:00-17:00 EAT Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

En #Colombia, organizaciones sociales y campesinas han iniciado una consulta popular con 5 preguntas sobre acceso y redistribución de la tierra www.eltiempo.com/politica/gob...

Must-read: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food @michaelfakhri.bsky.social calls out key companies driving corporate concentration in the food system and demands accountability for rights violations. digitallibrary.un.org/record/40872... @fian-international.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social

The push for supermarkets across the world is causing a rise in highly processed foods. In the latest 'Supermarket bulletin', we highlight how local food distribution could be entry point to address nutrition issues grain.org/en/article/7... @fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social

A new pact will allow Qatar to secure farmlands in Ghana, allocate them to farmers for large-scale cultivation, and then buy the produce for export to Qatar farmlandgrab.org/33038 @groundswellint.bsky.social

Indonesia’s government announced the first stage of a five-year plan to expand and intensify 78,000 ha of aquaculture production along the north coast of Java island. Fishers and environmental groups worns that the project risks further diminishing local fishers’ news.mongabay.com/2025/08/indo...

The latest briefing paper by African Centre for Biodiversity unpacks South Africa’s plant breeders’ rights laws and exposes how the law undermine farmers’ rights to seeds and exclude farmer-managed seed systems acbio.org.za/wp-content/u...

Maíz: Semillas nativas vs mejorada. El maíz, alma de Mesoamérica, enfrenta una batalla silenciosa entre herencia milenaria y modificación genética. Escuchar podcast de No Ficción: no-ficcion.com/maiz-semilla...

"Il est mieux de promouvoir l'agro-écologie que l'agro-business", martèlent des organisations paysannes en marge du forum d'AGRA (Fondation Gates) au Sénégal www.seneweb.com/fr/news/Vide...

On 27 November 2025 Kenya’s High Court will deliver judgement to the petition that challenges the country's Seed and Plant Varieties Act that criminalize sharing and selling of uncertified seed. The decision could reshape the country’s food system. www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...

En la provincia de Buenos Aires #Argentina más del 70% del territorio cultivable está fumigado con #agrotóxicos. Glifosato, atrazina, 2,4-D son los principales venenos que enferman cuerpos, contaminan agua y llegan a la mesa www.laizquierdadiario.com/Claves-ambie... @fian-international.bsky.social

Sri Lanka’s debt crisis shows how austerity devours people & food systems. Yet in SriLanka we'll gather for #3rdNyéléniGlobalForum— building from below with solidarity, agroecology & foodsovereignty aljazeera.com/opinions/202... #Nyeleni2025 @foeint.bsky.social @grain.org @ripessinter.bsky.social

Liberian communities await justice for violations at Salala rubber plantation: "No progress has been made," they tell @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/short-articl... #Socfin/#Bollore #WorldBank #IFC @hekseperworld.bsky.social

En San Lorenzo, #Colombia, la resistencia germina en silencio. Manos campesinas protegen semillas nativas frente al avance transgénico que en la actualidad abarca más de 1 millón de hectáreas www.enpositivo.com/2025/08/21/l... @atalc.bsky.social

Excellent documentaire de Nate Halverson @revealnews.org‬ sur l'accaparement des terres et de l'eau par des pays puissants (l'Arabie Saoudite, la Chine, les Emirats, Etats-Unis), les enjeux géopolitiques et les impacts sur le terrain www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12... @lessoulevements.bsky.social

The seed industry is using legal strategy through intellectual property rights & restrictive marketing laws to expand their footprint and profits. Is using the same legal framework the best strategy to fight back? grain.org/e/7307 @afsafrica.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @iatp.bsky.social

Peru slashes corporate taxes in a bid to make agroexports the backbone of its economy instead of mining. Next market in sight? India. www.aol.com/news/peru-ho...

UAE agribusiness giant Al Dahra signs deals to develop and operate up to 70,000 hectares of farmland in Angola for international markets. farmlandgrab.org/33027

🇧🇷 Brazil's antitrust regulators recently lifted the country's 2006 soy moratorium, which prevented soybeans from deforested areas entering the supply chain, on the grounds it's anti-competitive. 1/3 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

À travers sa fondation, Jeff Bezos alimente une course à l’accaparement des forêts, des terres agricoles et des zones littorales pour des projets carbone qui bénéficient son entreprise Amazon mais déplacent des communautés locales. grain.org/e/7304 @obsmultinationales.bsky.social

A tribute to Nicanor "Nick" Perlas and his outstanding efforts, including against the misuse of pesticides that have contributed to the banning of dozens of harmful agrochemicals in the Philippines. rightlivelihood.org/news/2003-la... @rightlivelihood.org

A quelques jours du Sommet "Bill-AGRA" au Sénégal, le gouvernement du Burkina Faso claque la porte au projet Target Malaria financé par sa fondation. fr.apanews.net/news/le-burk... @fpigeaud.bsky.social @infogm.bsky.social @wominafrica.bsky.social @survie.bsky.social

Jinukun and the agroecological farmers movement of Benin are organising a seed fair in October that will mobilise the public to #StopUPOV! For more information & to lend your support: www.facebook.com/share/p/1C2q... @afsafrica.bsky.social @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social

"To finance change, we have to change finance." Why the agroecology movement needs to support Michel Pimbert's call to arms. grain.org/e/7306 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social @infonyeleni.bsky.social @ipes-food.org @fian-international.bsky.social

Civil society groups raise strong concerns about Brazilian meat giant JBS' $2.5 billion plan to boost industrial livestock in Nigeria. forefrontng.com/jbs-investme... @iatp.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @ipes-food.org