News and Analysis

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.

For over 70 years, the state of Israel has subjected the Palestinian people to its brutal regime of control.

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

We condemn Israel's attack on leading Palestinian civil society groups

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 Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill poses a dangerous threat to all of our rights. The right to assemble, which allows us to peacefully protest, is vital to any democratic society.

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. 

Why focus on Israel’s military courts?

Imogen Richmond-Bishop from Sustain discusses the fight for the right to food in the UK