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UK agrochemicals kill peasants across the Global South
UK is the one of the largest exporters of agrochemicals banned in the UK and EU
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'Food security' vs 'Food Sovereignty' – North Africa
Mechanisms put in place to ensure food security have impoverished and starved people
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The Soulaliyate movement: Moroccan women fighting land dispossession
The right to land and the modalities of dispossession
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Neocolonial olive production in Tunisia
The continuation of colonial policies under the flagship of exports
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The state-led decline of subsistance farming in Morocco
The destruction of local and subsistence agriculture by an export-led model in Morocco
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UK charities ask: Is the UK government abandoning the Palestinian people?
We are gravely concerned by the Israeli Government’s threat to annex more Palestinian land
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Food sovereignty and peasants’ rights in the time of pandemic
Testimonies from our partners in the Global South
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Statement on the release of the UN database of businesses involved in illegal Israeli settlements
UK organisations urge UK Government to take action to end businesses’ involvement in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory
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UK organisations urge government to challenge annexation, US ‘Peace Plan’
Statement on the 'Deal of the Century' endorsed by 16 agencies
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Hypocrisy at the World Economic Forum 2020
Those gathered at Davos are the very people blocking ambitious climate action