News and Analysis

When food, land, and water — our basic human rights — are treated as profit-making ‘assets’, what happens to people and the planet, and how can we win these essentials back for everyone?

Deadly toxic pesticides and fertilisers derived from fossil fuels are destroying the health of people and planet.

With ecosystems collapsing as the climate crisis intensifies, corporations are pushing 'solutions' like carbon offsetting, in reality a way to keep polluting and profiting.

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.

The tea trade is threatening Sri Lanka's crucial rainforests, with devastating impacts for local people, regional biodiversity and the global climate.

Sri Lanka's severe political and financial crisis means millions are unable to afford food. This is a crisis driven by international debt.

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.

While the UK produces and exports dangerous, banned agrotoxics to the Global South, our partners in Kenya are creating new, organic alternatives.

Corporations are co-opting the language of peasants' and environmental movements to press their agenda of profit over people and planet.

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.