agriculture
for Post-COVID-19 Food and Agricultural SystemsWith chapters on and contributions from Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Italy, the Philippines, Spain, the US, and Zimbabwe
Preface
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the chasms in the food and agricultural systems became plain for all to see. But even before COVID-19, the food and agricultural systems were in crisis: millions of people were hungry, there was a loss of biodiversity, climate change impacts were devastating, and labour conditions appalling. So, how do we do things differently to guarantee a different outcome in ...
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About the book
The agricultural produce that ends up on our table from supermarket shelves and market stalls does not tell the story of the lives of the countless men and women who toil in the fields and greenhouses of Italy in conditions and at a pace that are often reminiscent of modern slavery.
In this production chain, thousands of “invisible” workers, many of them migrants, are isolated by Italian law and easily blackmailed due to the indifference of the European Union and its inability to agree on harmonisation processes for the effective ...
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Hands we cannot see, names we do not knowComer: to eat, Spanish, derived from the Latin comedere
Etymologically, the prefix com suggests that we should not eat alone. In any language, the verb “to eat” has something of a humanising effect, because human beings cannot exist without eating. The verb expresses an automatic, instinctive action: eating, after all, meets a biological need, yet this need is also bound up in a set of social and cultural aspects that determine what we eat, with whom, when and how much, where our food comes from, and much more ...
read more "Who feeds us in troubled times?"
read more "Who feeds us in troubled times?"
A comment from MexicoThe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the US entered into force on the 1st of January 1994. It is the worst tragedy that has happened in Mexico’s economic history.* Since its beginning, this Free Trade Agreement (FTA) turned out to be a spearhead for a hard offensive by the US to undermine Mexico’s national sovereignty. By being the only country in the world that has followed the Washington consensus to the letter throughout three and half decades, Mexico has ...
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Network of land workers and migrants in EuropeUnder the auspices of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office, the Network of land workers and migrants in Europe is convening for its founding meeting to exchange experiences and foster mutual understanding of migrant seasonal workers and identify common solutions at the national or EU and international level. The meeting will take place in Almería, Spain, 6-8 July 2018.
The tender is for a service to develop a methodology to support the working group meeting, to prepare...
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Today, we can find cheap tomatoes from Italy in almost every supermarket and weekly farmers' market in Europe. However, the country of origin indicated on the vegetable crates or cans of tomatoes says nothing about the real living and working conditions on the fields and in the greenhouses of Southern Italy. But the price does, since it is the result of price pressure on producers and farmers and reflects the hard work of the exploited people who often work and live under slave-like conditions.
The issue of migration to ...
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Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat - 2017Takeovers and mergers like Monsanto by Bayer, Kraft with Heinz and Dow with DuPont are just the tip of the iceberg. A spate of corporate marriages is concentrating control at each link in the value chain, from field to fork. The biggest players are growing the fastest and are pushing through their own interests and approaches. Fifty manufacturers account for 50 percent of global food sales in the industry. Seven companies currently dominate the global production of pesticides and seeds. Much of the beef, pork...
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read more "Agrifood Atlas"
Guía laboral para los trabajadores y trabajadoras en AndalucíaBig parts of Europe are taking the fruits – in the literal sense – of labor of many agricultural workers for granted. Take Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Brussels or any other place: the shelfs in supermarkets are filled with fruits and vegetables from Southern Spain. But almost anybody is aware of the conditions under which those are being produced, of the poor wages for the grinding work and its consequences for the health of the workers. And this is also true for ...
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About Urban Gardening in the center of the European Union and the "Back-to-rural-areas" movement in the Southern periphery of the European Union.In early 2012, there are two contravening trends in Europe of which we are not sure whether they may not, in the near future, come together in their practice and in political discourse; clearly, however, they might. One such trend is the not entirely new, but still trendy "urban gardening" movement, which involves the repossession of urban brownfields, and their re-greening and re-utilization for the ...
read more "The Potato as a Symbol and Material Necessity"
read more "The Potato as a Symbol and Material Necessity"
About Urban Gardening in the center of the European Union and the "Back-to-rural-areas" movement in the Southern periphery of the European Union.In early 2012, there are two contravening trends in Europe of which we are not sure whether they may not, in the near future, come together in their practice and in political discourse; clearly, however, they might. One such trend is the not entirely new, but still trendy "urban gardening" movement, which involves the repossession of urban brownfields, and their re-greening and re-utilization for the ...
read more "The Potato as a Symbol and Material Necessity"
read more "The Potato as a Symbol and Material Necessity"