Five members of the Black Fraternal Organisation of Honduras (OFRANEH) were arrested during a violent eviction in the Garífuna community of San Juan, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, in early July. The five people were subsequently released but are facing criminal charges for “aggravated usurpation” of their own territory. This criminalisation is taking place in a context of growing…
A new report on corporate concentration in food and farming confirms that the global food chain is controlled by a handful of transnational corporations. A few weeks ago, the ETC Group and Grain published the 2026 edition of Top 10 Agribusiness Giants, a study they have been developing and updating for decades, which takes on particular significance against a backdrop…
--- We’re here with Andrés Muñoz from Friends of the Earth Spain to discuss the characteristics and consequences of industrial livestock farming, as well as a landmark court ruling in Galicia stemming from a lawsuit over pollution from industrial livestock farms in the Limia River and the As Conchas Reservoir. Andrés, how are you? Thank you so much for taking…
A few weeks ago in Brazil, IARAA—an Artificial Intelligence tool for Agrarian Reform and Agroecology—was launched. The tool was developed by the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and the World March of Women (WMW) and supported by the Baobab International Association for People’s Cooperation in China. To discuss this, I’m joined by Natalia Lobo, an activist with the World March…
On 24-28 February, the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20) will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, marking 20 years since the first edition. Ahead of the conference, hundreds of delegates that make up the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), including Indigenous Peoples, peasant movements, fisherfolk, rural workers and more will gather in Cartagena for…
The accountability mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) decided to close a formal complaint against the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in India, financed by the IFC, despite confirming the continuing serious impacts of the plant over the last 12 years. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the IFC (body of the World Bank for the private sector) confirmed…
More than 1,000 people from all continents came together in Kandy, Sri Lanka, with a specific goal: to plan joint actions to overcome the multiple global crises we are currently experiencing. These crises are the result of a system that organises life and distributes resources unfairly, placing capital above life, profits above nature, and business before care. The 3rd Nyéléni…
On this episode of Voices are Action, we discuss three central issues: 1) From 12 to 16 November, the Peoples' Summit will be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, in the state of Pará, in the Amazon. This summit is the response of social movements around the world to a new edition of the UN Climate Change Conference -COP30-,…
These are the headlines of our fourth episode of Voices are Action, our new podcast series. 1. Argentina – Mendoza: The Assembly for Water of Uspallata, a town in Argentina located at the head of the Mendoza River basin, is currently threatened by the actions of the San Jorge open pit mining project, in a context of public power grabbing…
On June 16, a judge of the Municipal Court of Jericó, a municipality in the department of Antioquia, released eleven peasants who are facing legal proceedings for opposing a mining project of transnational corporation AngloGold Ashanti in the area. The decision allows the peasants to continue the process while remaining free, contrary to the request of the Prosecutor's Office that…
