News and Updates: Food Sovereignty and Sustainability
The conference “Healthy Food: A Right for Everyone”, which took place this Saturday May 6, 
2017, became a political act in defense of agroecology and the agrarian reform. According to the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST...
Temer is promoting a bill that enables the purchasing of lands for foreign natural and legal entities.
Last week, the Minister of Agriculture, Blairo Maggi, affirmed that Interim President Michel...
In his book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, US public interest attorney Steven Druker exposed the
fraudulent practices and...
The court sentence, given by Judge Pedro Ivo Moreiro, of the 1st Civil Court of Cascavel, was 
published in the Paraná State Official Gazette this Tuesday (November 17, 2015). The sentence rules that...
They denounce the idle land use, separation of small milk producers in the region and the influence of the former owners to acquire the area.
Several students from the Levante Popular da...
On March 20, President Dilma Rousseff attended the 12th Festival of the Agro-Ecological Rice Harvest in Integração Gaucha and Lanceiros Negros settlements, in Eldorado do Sul, in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre (RS)....
Through synchronized actions, social movements block the legalization of genetically modified Eucalyptus
Though only a partial victory, the organizations involved have managed to make ...
Whoever thinks
of agribusiness and imagines large estates producing food for Brazil’s refrigerators is gravely mistaken. What the television doesn’t tell us is that agribusiness is a form of...
The Friends of the MST is saddened to report the death of John Kinsman on January 20, 2014 at the age of 87. John was a founder 
and president of the Family Farm Defenders, a member...
On May 25, 2013 over two million people marched and protested against agribusiness giant Monsanto. See coverage from USA Today,...