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The UN Food Systems Summit is hogwash. It is a threat to peoples’ food sovereignty

  La Via Campesina’s Press Statement | September 22nd 2021, Harare:  La Via Campesina is among scores of other social movements of organized small-scale food producers, workers and indigenous people boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), slated to take place in New York – September 23rd, 2021. Peoples’ movements are united in condemning … Continue reading

Venezuela Produces 95% of the Rice it Consumes

Orinoco Tribune During an inspection of the planting of grains, and specifically of ​​rice, for the 2021 winter cycle, the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, reported that Venezuela produces more than 95% of the rice that reaches Venezuelan households. From the Gran Cacique Yare Agricultural Production Unit, in the state of Aragua, Faiez Kassen Castillo, vice … Continue reading

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