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Issue No. 364 (2025/3)
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COVER:
Sowing trouble: Seed systems, farmers’ rights and food sovereignty under threat
Seeds
of conflict
By Lean Ka-Min
Farmers’ rights and our long-term food security are under threat
from an international treaty that is concentrating corporate control
over seed supplies.
Strong
call to implement farmers’ rights and resist UPOV 1991 and corporate
capture
By Karina Yong
A recent international symposium flagged the dangers posed to farmers’
rights by UPOV 1991 and biopiracy.
Seeds,
sovereignty and struggle
The ongoing battle against UPOV and seed privatisation
By GRAIN
Communities around the world are fighting back against corporate
takeover of seed systems.
Global
food systems being hijacked by corporate interests, warns report
By Kanaga Raja
Beyond seeds, corporations are also asserting dominance over other
areas of the food system, with ruinous effects on human rights, health
and the environment, points out a UN rights expert.
UNDROP
is lighting the way for peasants’ rights
GeorginaCaracora-Vargas interviewed
by Ann Doherty
In the face of corporate power over food systems and myriad other
challenges, peasants continue to play a key role in feeding the world
and safeguarding farming cultures. In this interview with Ann Doherty,
agroecologist Georgina Catacora-Vargas explains how a landmark
international instrument adopted in 2018 – the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)
– can support the cause of peasants and food sovereignty.
ECOLOGY
‘Reduce,
reuse, recycle’ is corporate gaslighting – the real change must come
from the fossil fuel industry
By Alex Lenferna
Focus on individual behaviours to stem climate change deflects attention
from the corporate culprits driving the ecological crisis.
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HEALTH
& SAFETY
Philanthrocapitalism
will not save the World Health Organisation
By Vivek N.D.
WHO’s growing dependence on funding from wealthy private entities
is skewing global health priorities and undermining democratic accountability.
ECONOMICS
Sri
Lanka’s austerity is one of the most severe in history
By Shiran Illanperuma
To repay its creditors, Sri Lanka massively scaled back public
spending – at great cost to its people and economy.
The
parable of the Nile perch
Vignettes from Uganda’s market society
By Liam Taylor
As the ruthless logic of commodification takes hold, many in Uganda
fall by the wayside.
WORLD
AFFAIRS
Venezuela’s
oil, US-led regime change and America’s gangster politics
By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares
Washington’s current machinations against Venezuela are only the
latest in a long, unsavoury line of resource-grabbing US regime-change
operations.
A
huge airbase with a small country attached to it
By Juan Cole
Facilitated by its Western allies, Israel has been unleashing
waves of aerial attacks on the Palestinians and neighbouring states,
but, like its imperial antecedents, this latest attempt at air-power
colonialism is unlikely to succeed.
How
‘conflict-free’ minerals are used in the waging of modern wars
By Mark Griffiths and Mohamed El-Shewy
The bloody links between mineral supplies and armed conflict are
forged not only in the extraction stage but also at the other end
of the supply chain.
HUMAN
RIGHTS
Neoliberalism
by force in Ecuador
By Ana Sofía Armand and
Lisbeth Moya González
Despite brutal government repression of a national strike, diverse
sectors of Ecuadorian society continue to make their voices of resistance
heard.
WOMEN
The
women looking after the elderly in Colombia also need care
By Roxana Baspineiro
Undervalued and overburdened, caregivers in Colombia seek the
rights and recognition they deserve.
CULTURE
Cultural
resistance: a crucial component of struggle
By Roomaan Leach
Art has always served as the heartbeat of liberation movements,
and the struggle for Palestinian freedom is no different.
Third
World Resurgence Page
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