Press Release, 16 April 2015 To mark International Day of Farmer and Peasant Struggle tomorrow, farmers' movement Via Campesina, lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory, and Belgian social alliance D19-20 areorganising a lobby tour around the Brussels EU district tohighlight the impact of trade agreements on small-scale agriculture.Starting at 11.30, the tour will highlight how trade...
(Pakistan, Lahore, April 17, 2015) Anjuman-e-Muzareen Punjab, Pakistan (AMP) (A Movement of Landless peasants) organized a demonstration on “International Peasants’ Day” on Tuesday, the 17th of April 2015 at 3:30 pm, in front of the Lahore Press Club, Lahore. Its purpose is to have ownership rights to those who have been tilling almost a century....
April 17, 2015 (first published on http://www.australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/blog/) Community unites with farmers in resistance to dairy expansion in Bass Coast Shire The proposed multi-million dollar expansion of Kernot Dairy, owned by the Chinese corporation Ningbo, is raising the ire of farmers and local residents in Gippsland on a day that commemorates the struggle of small farmers...
17 April: Lobby Action tour on TTIP, Food and Farming - April 17 : Via Campesina International Day of Peasant Struggle - April 18 : Global Day of Action against free trade agreements As part of the global mobilisations on the impacts of “free” trade agreements such as TTIP, CETA and TPP, Via Campesina, the...
