Farmers around the world are protesting decades of government pressure to produce crops more and more cheaply at the expense of farmers’ livelihoods and the environment.
The right to food is an internationally recognised human right. But for Palestinians, this right is under attack by Israel’s apartheid and occupation regime.
Decent work and a living wage are not only basic rights, but a key route out of poverty. Through organising, the collective voice of workers has won rights and decent work for millions of people.
Our new report ‘Secrets and Fries’ exposes how McDonald’s has been driving billions in global profits through the City of London, but not stopping to pay its share of UK tax.
The UN Food Systems Summit 2021 will achieve nothing meaningful while its agenda is shaped, and its language defined, by the very corporations that have engineered our current — broken — food systems.
The global food system is in crisis. The reason? Food being treated as just another commodity to be traded, rather than as a fundamental human right. The scale of hunger and malnutrition across the world today is the direct result of our global economy in which hundreds of millions of small farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists and indigenous people face ruin - because of the hijacking of the food system by large corporate agribusiness and food retailers.