A video(in Spanish) about Food Sovereignty Campaign made by ECOFONDO Colombia, a LASC partner.

"La campaña SALSA es una iniciativa por la defensa de la soberanía, la seguridad y la autonomía alimentaria que agrupa diversas organizaciones ambientalistas, comunitarias, campesinas, de pueblos indígenas y afro descendientes en Colombia."

Stop Land Grabbing - land to the tillers!

April 17 is the International Day of Peasant Struggle, commemorating the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place around the world in defence of peasants and small-scale farmers struggling for their rights.

In recent years, we have suffered from the implementation of new policies and of a new development model based on land expansion and land expropriation, commonly known as land grabbing. Land grabbing is a global phenomenon led by local, national and transnational elites and investors, with the participation of governments and local authorities, in order to control the world's most precious resources.

The World Water Forum (WWF) and the Alternative World Forum (in French: Forum Alternatif Mondial de l'Eau -FAME-) are going to take place from the 12^th March in Marseille, France.  Governments, organizations and civil society will gather to discuss, reflect on, and take important decisions about the future water. 

The World Water Forum (WWF) is organised every three years since 1997, when the first World Water Forum was convened for three days in Marrakech, Morocco. In the following editions of the Forum (The Hague in 2000, Kyoto in 2003, Mexico in 2006), the WWF came under heavy criticism by civil society organisations for its pro-big business bias and its weak legitimacy.

by Gustavo Torres

Traditional food systems are disappearing as large-scale farming expands.

Farming, as a campesino or indigenous family practice that for centuries ensured natural food on Paraguayan land, is threatened by a small number of producers that are developing a farming model based on large-scale modern agricultural technology, which continually decreases the need for manual labor and in which multinational corporations take control of much of Paraguay's natural resources like land, water, and biodiversity.

Hundreds join in 800-kilometer march to demand the government declare access to clean water a human right.

Several hundred protesters marched 800 kilometers (500 miles) to Lima from the northern highland city of Cajamarca, the center of unrest over a contentious mining project, to demand that the government guarantee access to clean and safe water for the country's citizens.