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Delta Goodrem backs anti-hunger campaign
Australian actress and singer Delta Goodrem is the latest star to throw her support behind a global campaign to bring an end to chronic hunger.
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
The establishment of this working group by the Human Rights Council (September 2010) was a milestone on the long road towards gender equality . Despite many constitutional and legal reforms to integrate women’s human rights fully into domestic law, progress is insufficient and discrimination against women persists in both public and private spheres, in conflict and in peace, transcending national, cultural and religious boundaries and fuelled by patriarchal stereotyping and power imbalances - which is mirrored in laws, policies and practice.
China’s Interest in Farmland Makes Brazil Uneasy
New York Times
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Published: May 26, 2011
When the Chinese came looking for more soybeans here in Uruacu last year, they inquired about buying land — lots of it. Officials in this farming area would not sell the hundreds of thousands of acres needed. Undeterred, the Chinese pursued a different strategy: providing credit to farmers and potentially tripling the soybeans grown here to feed chickens and hogs back in China. Click here for full article.
International: G20-Agriculture - Hundreds Of Organizations Say STOP Farm Land Grabbing!
Hundreds of civil society organisations, including farmers' movements, women's groups and non-governmental organisations, will launch a global appeal against farmland grabbing during the G20 meeting on Agriculture in Paris on June 22 and 23.
Over 500 organizations from around the world (1) have joined the "Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing" (2) that was originally drawn up at the World Social Forum in Dakar last February and launched by, among others, la Via Campesina and FIAN International.
Call for contributions: Land and land rights
The current and impending food crises are increasing pressures on the ownership of land and its use for agriculture. What are the implications of this for family farmers? Land grabs cause large scale migration, poverty and conflict – not to mention environmental impacts. Biodiversity decreases when small family farms are replaced by mono-crops treated with pesticides and fertilizers. Small-scale farmers have little power to farm sustainably if they don’t have control over land: secure access to land is a prerequisite for farmers to invest in sustainable agriculture.