"Million Belay, who coordinates the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of thirty Africa-based food and farming groups, equated the current market-driven agricultural development model to a 'knee on the neck of Africa'.
"In a powerful essay in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the global uprising for racial justice, Belay discussed a false narrative about African food systems seeded by philanthrocapitalists, aid agencies, governments, and others who βtalk about transforming African agriculture when what they are doing is creating a market for themselves cleverly couched in a nice sounding language.β
India
Criminalising ecological dissent in India
The targeting of environmental justice groups shows how the Modi government's criminalization of dissent is gaining pace.
Recovery does not mean going 'back to normal'. This is the time to prioritise justice, sustainability, human rights, and the protection of livelihoods and the planet.
It's official - in fewer than 100 days the United States will formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The impact of Donald Trump's decision, taken three years ago, is already being felt by environmental justice communities. Racism is...
Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network is joining with Stop the Maangamizi and African Emancipation Day Reparations March to lock down Brixton Road on Saturday 1 August.
Climate targets will remain a pipe dream as long as financiers fill the boardrooms of fossil fuel companies, and oil barons are rewarded with prestigious positions in our financial system.
We are living through a climate emergency. If we don't get a grip on this crisis, our future on this planet is in jeopardy. But this is not simply a question of individuals changing their lifestyle. Climate change is driven onwards by the rules...
HS2 is often trumpeted as a major infrastructure project to reinvigorate the UK economy, drive connectivity and so bridge the gap between London and the North. To its detractors it's a vanity project set to take generations to build; gobble up...
There has been extensive coverage of the end of a two-year opencast coal extraction site at Bradley this week, signalling the end of coal production in County Durham. The company Banks Group attempted to extend the mine but were thwarted by a...
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