UN resolution hints at a new international instrument to promote and protect the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a landmark resolution hinting at a new instrument for the rights of the world’s estimated 1.2 billion peasants and other people working in rural areas.…
Following a great harvest jamboree last weekend, here are more details and links to a couple of the events mentioned. Good Food march to Brussels: A group of people from the UK will be joining to good food march to Brussels on the 19th September. The march is composed of people from all over Europe…
Mark Simmonds is facilitating a free workshop at the Old Fire Station in Stoke Newington on 28th September on legal structures and governance of community food enterprise. Mark is really knowledgeable about cooperatives and community organising structures and an excellent facilitator. He supported Organiclea’s development when their Hawkwood Nursery project began and is doing the…
The Land is Ours have been doing some work on the issues around the Common Agricultural Policy, which coincides with current campaigns by Via Campesina and a host of other producer unions in Europe. Very little has been done on the issues around CAP in the UK, which is crazy because in the UK the…