Jun 12, 2017 | Climate Justice, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News
Originally published by Earth First! Journal In order to get developmental assistance, Tanzania amended its legislation, which should give commercial investors faster and better access to agricultural land as well as a very strong protection of intellectual...
Mar 29, 2017 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Social Media News
Trees in Tanzania’s southeast region are being burned down, sometimes illegally, to make way for sesame farms. In one small village with a thriving community-owned forest project, sesame cultivation has become the leading cause of deforestation. The particularly...
Jan 23, 2017 | Featured, Food Sovereignty, Monsanto & Glyphosate, Social Media News, Uncategorized
Ahead of World Bank’s release of the 2017 “Enabling the Business of Agriculture” (EBA) report this month, 157 organizations and academics from around the world denounce the Bank’s scheme to hijack farmers’ right to seeds, attack on food sovereignty and the...