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TWN Info Service on Sustainable Agriculture (2021)
- Asia-Pacific: Number of hungry rises since the arrival of COVID-19
by Kanaga Raja (24 Dec 21)
- Peru: Rural women seed water today to harvest it tomorrow
by IPS/Mariela Jara (23 Dec 21)
- United Nations: Hunger continues to worsen in the Arab region, says FAO
by Kanaga Raja (20 Dec 21)
- WTO: GC chair, DG call for pandemic response, fisheries deal by end-February
by D. Ravi Kanth (10 Dec 21)
- South countries demand robust S&DT in draft fisheries subsidies deal
by D. Ravi Kanth (09 Dec 21)
- UN: Conflicts and drought exacerbating food insecurity, says FAO
by Kanaga Raja (07 Dec 21)
- UN FAO urged to abandon controversial pesticide industry partnership
(03 Dec 21)
- Draft Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies undermines UN SDG 14.6
by D. Ravi Kanth (26 Nov 21)
- Doha agriculture chair exposes her "biases" against developing countries
by D. Ravi Kanth (26 Nov 21)
- Differences persist at WTO on "deliverables" for MC12
by D. Ravi Kanth (23 Nov 21)
- UN: Global food import bill to reach an all-time high in 2021, says FAO
by Kanaga Raja (18 Nov 21)
- Agricultural negotiations factsheet for MC12
by Ranja Sengupta (16 Nov 21)
- United Nations: Food security crisis in DRC likely to worsen, say FAO/WFP
by Kanaga Raja (12 Nov 21)
- Doha agriculture chair's textual suggestions inimical to South's interests
by D. Ravi Kanth (12 Nov 21)
- Bringing Agroecology to Life in Chile
by Constanza Monterrubio Solís (09 Nov 21)
- "Rigged" consultations process for agriculture "deliverables" at MC12?
by D. Ravi Kanth (08 Nov 21)
- Green Financing for Agribusiness Continues Business-as-Usual
(04 Nov 21)
- How the Global Industrial Food System Has Failed Humanity
(28 Oct 21)
- European Parliament adopts text on biodiversity, calls for no releases of gene drive organisms
(27 Oct 21)
- WTO: Four South countries propose bold approach on response to pandemic
by D. Ravi Kanth (27 Oct 21)
- Push-Pull Intercropping System Improves Soil Microbiome and Plant Productivity
(26 Oct 21)
- South unlikely to secure credible outcomes on agriculture at MC12
by D. Ravi Kanth (13 Oct 21)
- UN: Global food prices rise further in September, says FAO
by Kanaga Raja (08 Oct 21)
- Sustainable Organic Agriculture Reaps Rewards for Farmers in Zambia
(29 Sept 21)
- WTO: FAO highlights importance of permanent solution for public stockholding
by D. Ravi Kanth (29 Sept 21)
- Regulatory Elements to Phase-out Pesticides Based on Human Rights Obligations
(27 Sept 21)
- WTO: ACP, African Group, India draw markers for balanced fisheries deal
by D. Ravi Kanth (27 Sept 21)
- Exposing corporate capture of the UN Food Systems Summit through multistakeholderism
(23 Sept 21)
- The UN Food Systems Summit and its implications
(22 Sept 21)
- Fundamental Changes Needed at UN Summit to Tackle Global Food Insecurity
by Nick Nisbett, Lesli Hoey & Jose Graziano da Silva (21 Sept 21)
- The Corporate Capture of the UN Food Summit
(20 Sept 21)
- India presses for outcome on public stockholding at MC12
by D. Ravi Kanth (20 Sept 21)
- Call to Transform Corporate Food Systems
(19 Sept 21)
- Sign on Letter on Principles for Fair Channeling of SDRs
(16 Sept 21)
- Critical Observations on the Food Systems Summit
(15 Sept 21)
- Pesticides Found to Be Extensively Detrimental to Soil Organisms
Item 1: PESTICIDES AND SOIL INVERTEBRATES: A HAZARD ASSESSMENT
Item 2: NEW STUDY SHOWS PESTICIDES’ HARMFUL IMPACTS ON SOIL ORGANISMS
(14 Sept 21)
- Today High Level Dialogue -TRIPS Waiver
(13 Sept 21)
- South countries criticize draft agri-text for creating unlevel playing field
by D. Ravi Kanth (13 Sept 21)
- Hijacking Our Food Systems
by ETC Group (09 Sept 21)
- VIRTUAL LAUNCH | SPOTLIGHT REPORT 2021: Demanding Justice Beyond Rhetoric
(09 Sept 21)
- Supporting Peasants' and Indigenous People's Realization of Their Right to Seed
(07 Sept 21)
- WTO Green Box subsidies: Recent trends and lessons going forward
by Ranja Sengupta (25 Aug 21)
- UN Monitor #27: UN Convenes CSO Consultation for LDC5
by Global Policy Watch (25 Aug 21)
- "Nature-based Solutions" and the Biodiversity and Climate Crises
by Dr Doreen Stabinsky (19 Aug 21)
- Analysis and proposals for the pesticides component of Target 7 of the First Draft of the post-2020 GBF
(13 Aug 21)
- Seven Calls to Transform Food Systems
(06 Aug 21)
- Acute food insecurity reaches new highs, say FAO/WFP
by Kanaga Raja (05 Aug 21)
- Curbing Corporate Domination of the Food System
(03 Aug 21)
- Agriculture: Chair's draft ministerial decisions could harm interests of South
by D. Ravi Kanth (03 Aug 21)
- Indonesia calls for outcome on permanent solution on PSH at MC12
by D. Ravi Kanth (30 Jul 21)
- Applied Pesticide Toxicity Increasing in the US, Even in GM Crops
Item 1: APPLIED PESTICIDE TOXICITY SHIFTS TOWARD PLANTS AND INVERTEBRATES, EVEN IN GM CROPS by Ralf Schulz, Sascha Bub, Lara L. Petschick, Sebastian Stehle, & Jakob Wolfram
Item 2: INCREASING APPLIED PESTICIDE TOXICITY THREATENS PLANTS AND INSECTS by University of Koblenz-Landau
Item 3: PESTICIDE TOXICITY TO INVERTEBRATES AND POLLINATORS INCREASING IN GM CROPS by Claire Robinson & Jonathan Matthews
Item 4: TRANSGENIC PLANTS FAILING IN THE FIELDS by Testbiotech
(29 Jun 21)
- South countries warn credibility of WTO hangs in balance at MC12
by D. Ravi Kanth (27 Jul 21)
- Agroecological Family Farm Initiatives Built Food Resilience During Covid-19 in Latin America
(23 Jul 21)
- Hundreds of Grassroots Organizations to Oppose the UN Food Systems Summit
(22 Jul 21)
- Reforming Financing to Truly Enable Agroecology
(20 Jul 21)
- United Nations: Spike in world hunger under the shadow of COVID-19
by Kanaga Raja (15 Jul 21)
- CSOs urge ministers to safeguard interests of small-scale fishers
by D. Ravi Kanth (14 Jul 21)
- African Group calls for robust deal on public stockholding at MC12
by D. Ravi Kanth (13 Jul 21)
- Proposal for new science-policy body for food systems highly flawed
(12 Jul 21)
- United Nations: COVID-19 heightening existing levels of food insecurity
by Kanaga Raja (12 Jul 21)
- Sowing Water - A Farm's Bid for Sustainability
by IPS/Luis Brizuela (26 Jun 21)
- Using Agroecology to Build Back Greener and More Resilient Food Systems
(25 Jun 21)
- Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Fail Agricultural Sustainability Test
Item 1: CAN GLYPHOSATE-BASED HERBICIDES CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE? by Sheldon Krimsky
Item 2: GLYPHOSATE-BASED HERBICIDES DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE by Claire Robinson
(23 Jun 21)
- UN: World food import bill set to reach new highs in 2021, says FAO
by Kanaga Raja (21 Jun 21)
- United Nations: Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica appointed as UNCTAD SG
by Kanaga Raja (15 Jun 21)
- United Nations: Global food prices reach highest value in a decade, says FAO
by Kanaga Raja (07 Jun 21)
- Developed countries support harmful fisheries subsidies at WTO
by D. Ravi Kanth (04 Jun 21)
- Dim prospects for outcome on farm subsidies at MC12
by D. Ravi Kanth (01 Jun 21)
- United Nations: Half of the population in CAR facing acute food insecurity
by Kanaga Raja (21 May 21)
- Small Farms More Productive and Biodiverse Than Large Farms
Item 1: HIGHER YIELDS AND MORE BIODIVERSITY ON SMALLER FARMS by Ricciardi, V., Mehrabi, Z., Wittman, H., James, D., Ramnakutty, N.
Item 2: SMALL FARMS OUTDO BIG ONES ON BIODIVERSITY — AND CROP YIELDS
(12 May 21)
- United Nations: Acute food insecurity hits five-year high, says report
by Kanaga Raja (11 May 21)
- Food commodity prices continue to rise, says FAO
by Kanaga Raja (10 May 21)
- Struggle for the Future of Food
by IPS/Jomo Kwame Sundaram (04 May 21)
- Farmer-led Agroecological Solutions to the Climate Crisis in Asia
(30 Apr 21)
- Resisting Big Tech’s Take-Over of Digital Agriculture
(28 Apr 21)
- Framework for Advancing Agroecological Transformations
(22 Apr 21)
- United Nations: Food commodity prices rise for tenth straight month
by Kanaga Raja (09 Apr 21)
- Biodiversity-based Agroecology Key to Human and Planetary Resilience
(07 Apr 21)
- A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045
(30 Mar 21)
- United Nations: Acute hunger set to rise in over 20 countries, say FAO/WFP
by Kanaga Raja (30 Mar 21)
- Interview with Newly Appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
(29 Mar 21)
- UNDROP: A Landmark Recognition of the Dignity and Rights of All Peasants
(28 Mar 21)
- The UN Food Systems Summit: How Not to Respond to the Urgency of Reform
by Michael Fakhri, Hilal Elver & Olivier De Schutter (25 Mar 21)
- Updated TWN Briefing paper on International negotiations by virtual means in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic
(24 Mar 21)
- International Research Organizations Support WTO TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19
(22 Mar 21)
- Report Finds Agroecology Vastly Underfunded, Calls for Change
(19 Mar 21)
- A New Food System Based on Agroecology for Rural and Urban Communities
(10 Mar 21)
- Agriculture talks in disarray over assault on development, S&DT issues
by D. Ravi Kanth (10 Feb 21)
- United Nations: Food commodity prices rise sharply in January, says FAO
(05 Feb 21)
- How Global Finance is Dispossessing Communities and Driving Ecological Destruction
(01 Feb 21)
- Innovating Adaptation to Climate Change Through Agroecology
(28 Jan 21)
- A Dangerous Trend: Private Equity's Growing Control Over Agriculture
(27 Jan 21)
- Addressing the Food and Nutrition Security Challenges of Covid-19
(22 Jan 21)
- A Compilation of Selected Literature on the Impact of the UPOV Convention, Alternative sui generis PVP Laws and the Effect on Farmers’ Rights
(06 Jan 21)
- Rising Land Inequality Threatens the Livelihoods of Billions of Small Farmers
Item 1: NOVEMBER 24, 2020, ROME – IN A NEW STUDY RELEASED TODAY, RESEARCHERS SAY THAT LAND INEQUALITY IS RISING IN MOST COUNTRIES
Item 2: 1% OF FARMS OPERATE 70% OF WORLD’S FARMLAND
(06 Jan 21)
- Democratizing an Increasingly Concentrated Food System
(04 Jan 21)
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