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Farmers Condemn the Durban Platform: Sustainable peasant agriculture is the genuine solution to climate change

December 16, 2011December 16, 2011 admin

(Jakarta, 16 December 2011) La Via Campesina, the global movement of peasants, small-scale and agricultural family farmers, denounces the attempts of the largest carbon emitters to further escape their historic […]

World Bank & developed country plans for Agriculture carbon markets a threat to Africa – Lessons from Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement

December 7, 2011 admin

At the UN Climate Change negotiations in Durban this week, the World Bank and developed countries are claiming that agriculture carbon offsets will bring money for African agriculture. 

Memorandum from the Rural Women’s Assembly to the UNFCCC, the government of the Republic of South Africa and the Governments of Africa

December 4, 2011December 5, 2011 admin

We the Rural Women’s Assembly of Southern Africa, meeting in Durban on the event of the 17th Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC in Durban from 30 November to 5 […]

Civils snub Zuma’s African agri solution

December 3, 2011December 5, 2011 admin

by By Thobile Hans. Published in SABC. South African President Jacob Zuma’s declaration on “climate smart and carbon markets” as a climate change solution for African agriculture has raised suspicions […]

A Recipe for Carbon Farming

December 2, 2011December 5, 2011 admin

by Stephen Leahy. Published in Inter Press Service. DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 2 (IPS) – Civil society has warned of the danger of turning Africa’s food-producing lands into “carbon farms” […]

Agriculture and the Green Climate Fund: Two U.S. bargaining chips at the climate talks

December 1, 2011December 3, 2011 admin

A blogpost by Steve Suppan from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) A bargaining chip is usually something withheld to get consent for something bigger, not smaller. The […]

Durban COP17, agriculture and soil carbon markets

November 21, 2011November 25, 2011 admin

To: African Agriculture and Environment Ministers   We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Africa and around the world, strongly object to a decision in Durban for an agriculture work […]

Mobilisations are starting ahead of the Summit on Climate Change in Mexico

November 28, 2010December 2, 2010 admin

With its six caravans, La Via Campesina and its allies will propose alternatives to the climate crisis and to the lack of responsible agreement between governements. The caravans will stop […]

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