GRAIN

18/06/2026

La reforma de la Ley de Tierras Rurales en Argentina reabre el debate sobre soberanía y concentración. Los fondos agrícolas pasaron de 38 en 2005 a casi 960 en 2023, con una inversión de más de 150 mil millones de dólares. 40 millones de hectáreas acabaron en manos de 10 terratenientes transnacionales https://agenciatierraviva.com.ar/milei-propone-una-reforma-para-los-senores-de-la-tierra-perdida-de-soberania-y-deuda/ Agencia Tierra Viva Huerquen, comunicación en colectivo

La pretensión del Gobierno de modificar la Ley de Tierras Rurales abre el juego a fondos especulativos y pone en juego la soberanía sobre los territorios y el modelo productivo.

18/06/2026

"The future of farmer-managed seed systems in Africa is inseparable from the future of digital justice, because the struggle is increasingly over both seed and the data relations through which seed is governed, valued, and transformed." Timely new analysis from African Centre for Biodiversity: https://acbio.org.za/seed-sovereignty/seeds-power-and-digital-futures-in-africa/

16/06/2026

Más de mil organizaciones argentinas rechazaron el trigo transgénico HB4 anteriormente. Hoy resurgen las críticas: no resiste la sequía, baja la productividad es baja y pone en riesgo a otros cultivos https://economiasustentable.com/noticias/polemica-en-el-agro-aseguran-que-el-trigo-transgenico-argentino-es-un-fracaso-y-al-final-no-resiste-la-sequia/ Agencia Tierra Viva

El galardón a Raquel Chan en París reactiva las dudas sobre el trigo HB4, una tecnología que sigue dividiendo aguas en Argentina.

15/06/2026

The PanAfrican rural women's movement "We Are the Solution" has just opened a new chapter in Benin! Born in opposition to the Gates-funded Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), they are leading struggles for peasant seeds, agroecology, land and local food systems that feed people, not corporations.
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12/06/2026

73 international and Cambodian civil society organisations renewed calls for unconditional release of 5 activists from Mother Nature Cambodia who are facing 6 to 8 years in prison on charges widely regarded as retaliatory for their activism against privatisation of nature

BANGKOK — Seven hundred days after activists from the environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia were imprisoned on charges widely regarded as retaliatory for their activism, 73 international and Cambodian civil society organizations have renewed calls for their unconditional release. After a tria...

12/06/2026

For years, social movements, peasant’ organisations, NGOs and trade unions have been calling on the European Union to suspend if not cancel its free trade agreement with Israel due to Tel Aviv’s incapacity to respect the human rights of the Palestinian people. This call has grown more intense recently, with the genocide in Gaza and Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank. The Justice for Palestine European Citizens' Initiative has just collected one million signatures on this.

New research by Global Echo has revealed the extent to which Israel is breaching its trade deal with the EU. It is exporting lemons, dates and other agricultural products from illegal settlements to Europe under the false labels 'Israeli' and 'organic'.

https://www.globalecho.law/importingoccupation/
https://www.justiceforpalestine.eu/

12/06/2026

A new GM rice HIZ039 that claimed to be high in iron and zinc has been approved in the Philippines. Farmers group Masipag strongly challenge the approval and cautions against the continued framing of malnutrition as a problem that can be solved GM biofortified crops.

MASIPAG strongly and unequivocally challenges the approval of HIZ039 iron-zinc genetically modified rice, which was issued under a biosafety regulatory system already found by the Court of Appeals to be deficient in upholding constitutional environmental safeguards and the precautionary principle.

11/06/2026

A looming food crisis is on everyone’s lips. Today, beyond corporate greed and climate disasters, it’s linked to geopolitics, war, racism and reactionary politics. https://grain.org/e/7396

11/06/2026

Among Southeast Asian countries, Thailand has the highest number of SLAPP cases. Now, the country's supreme court has issued directive aims to curb abuse of SLAPP suits that corporations often uses to harass groups and activists https://world.thaipbs.or.th/detail/new-thai-court-directive-aims-to-curb-abuse-of-slapp-suits/61465
Background: https://grain.org/e/7318

BIOTHAI APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development

Supreme Court President Adisak Tantiwong has issued a directive providing guidelines to judges on how to handle court cases deemed to be Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), in order to protect honest defendants acting in the public interest.

11/06/2026

El 21 de mayo, en Rigores - Honduras, fueron asesinadas 20 campesinas y campesinos (incluyendo menores de edad). La Vía Campesina ha denunciado la masacre y exige justicia, seguridad y fin de la impunidad https://viacampesina.org/es/la-via-campesina-honduras-denuncia-masacre-de-campesinxs-en-la-comunidad-colon/ OFRANEH-Garifuna/Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña Copinh Honduras

La Vía Campesina Honduras condena enérgicamente este brutal hecho que sacude a todo el país y que demuestra la vulnerabilidad y la falta de seguridad en que viven nuestras comunidades campesinas.