Tag: food sovereignty

‘Raising Resistance’ & ‘Pathways to Food Sovereignty’ Event Reports

As part of the Waltham Forest Council’s Urban Food Growing Festival and the CFGN Spring Events series, the Hornbeam Café kindly hosted two events around the topic of food sovereignty. ‘Raising Resistance’, a documentary about the effects of the spread of GM soy in Paraguay, illustrated how small-scale farmers are pushed off their land and…

Landworkers Alliance statement on Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership

The Landworkers Alliance of England and Wales Statement on forthcoming negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Begins: We are a coalition of farmers, growers and landworkers representing the interests of small-scale producers across England and Wales. Our livelihoods are wholly dependent upon resilient local food economies and cultures, as opposed to export…