In communities across Kenya, peasant organizations are mobilizing to defend the right to healthy food and rejected GM crops that advance the country’s food security. In Karura, a region on the northern outskirts of Nairobi, community leaders meet with local peasant communities to explain the implications of GMOs to small farmers, seeds introduced into the […]

For its part, the Association of Colombian Banana Growers, Augura, denounced today that 500,000 boxes of this fruit are at risk of being lost, while 15,000 workers are prevented from reaching their jobs and sales are in danger.

They require that the rights to freedom of thought, opinion and expression be respected.

Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics indicate that the livestock sector which consists of a population of 150 million livestock contributes 12 percent of the total gross domestic product.

On Thursday, the National Farmers’ Federation (FNC) kicked off its 30th “Farmer, Indigenous, and Popular March” in Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay, under the motto “For land and production, and against All Injustices.” RELATED:  Paraguayan Firefighters on Alert for Forest Fires Summoned by the FNC, social activists, environmental defenders, and progressive politicians departed from […]

Agricultural workers in Poland are protesting against measures to address rising prices due to the influx of Ukrainian grains and the impact of environmental laws. RELATED: Polish Government and Farmers Fail to Reach Agreements Protesters positioned themselves near the prime minister’s office, Polish police fired tear gas after a demonstrator lit a firecracker. The police […]

On Thursday afternoon, the meeting between Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski, and protesting farmers ended without an agreement. RELATED:  Polish Farmers Protest Against EU’s Green Deal After the meeting, Tusk said that all participants wanted to protect Polish agriculture, the Polish market and the European market from the consequences of the ill-advised […]

On Tuesday, about 10,000 Polish farmers took to the streets of Warsaw to protest against the agricultural and environmental policies of the European Union. RELATED:  Farmers to Protest at the European Commission Office in Madrid “Although the official start of the march was set for 11:00, groups of protesters began to block streets from early […]

On Monday, the Young Farmers Agricultural Association (ASAJA), the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers Organizations (COAG), and the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) will place hundreds of tractors and thousands of protesters between the Ministry of Agriculture and the office of the European Commission (EC) in Madrid. RELATED:  Greek Farmers Protest Over High […]

On wendsday, more than 500 tractors have arrived to Madrid in the protests against the barriers in the agriculture in Spain. RELATED: Farmers Stage Protests in Several European Countries According to Spanish media, they left yesterday for the capital and gathered in the vicinity of the Agriculture, Fishing and Alimentation Minister. The authorities reported that […]