Grassroots International

06/19/2026

“We live within a legal system within the western United States that treats water as a private property. Our movement has been to re-communitize water through our policy advocacy and through our organizing at the grassroots level to affirm our cultural values of water as a community resource.” -Paula

Food sovereignty is about more than just growing food. 

It’s about defending our water and passing cultural knowledge from one generation to the next. For decades, the New Mexico Acequia Association has worked alongside its local communities to keep these traditions alive and care for its Acequias.

Hear directly from the 2025 Food Sovereignty Prize winners as they reflect on the mission and efforts that continue to guide their movement.

05/27/2026

Meet the 2025 International Food
Sovereignty Prize winner: Association Nourrir
Sans Détruire (ANSD) from Burkina Faso.
The Food Sovereignty Prize stands as an alternative to the World Food Prize which has long been co-opted by global agribusiness interests and promotes productionist, often harmful “solutions” to global food crises. For more than ten years, ANSD has walked alongside the farmers, women, and young people from 126 villages who are growing food in ways that care for the soil, the water, and their communities.

05/22/2026

Grassroots International expresses our deep solidarity and concern with rural peoples in Honduras after yesterday’s massacre in the community of Rigores. Read the global peasant movement La Via Campesina's statement linked below.

International Solidarity La Vía Campesina Honduras condemns the massacre of peasants that has shaken the entire country and exposed the vulnerability and insecurity in which the peasant communities are forced to live.

05/15/2026

Today, May 15, we recognize the 78th anniversary of the Nakba—which literally means “catastrophe.” It refers to the forced displacement of Palestinians that began with the establishment of the state of Israel.

In 1948, Zionist paramilitaries and Israeli forces expelled some 800,000 Palestinians (over 75 percent of the existing population) from their homes under threat of bombings, mass executions, and other forms of violence.

As the world has witnessed over the past 3 years in Palestine, Lebanon and beyond, the Nakba is an ongoing process. We will continue to work alongside millions around the world to achieve justice, human rights, and an end to militarism.

05/12/2026

We’re in a profoundly challenging period full of tough questions. How can we respond to the moment? Where can we turn for political insights, moral clarity, and hope?

Our brand new annual report shows what social movements and their allies are making possible amid dire times.

It’s not just an important injection of hope. It’s an invitation to continue walking alongside these movements to make a better world.

See our link in bio to read “Solidarity Shines the Way,” our 2025 annual report.

05/11/2026

We spotlight the Food Sovereignty Prize as a counterweight to the green revolution farming techniques valorized by the World Food Prize. In the face of corporate agricultures devastation of communities and ecosystems, the Food Sovereignty Prize shines the light on communities building a safe and just food system.

05/04/2026

“Solidarity is what love looks like in the streets.”

Solidarity is a practice. And the way we move forward, together. On this episode of Becoming The Vision, Sara Mersha, Co-Executive Director at , shares the words of activist Nnimmo Bassey from - a reminder of what we all learn from each other when we show up in solidarity. Link in bio for the full podcast.

04/23/2026

The US government played a major role in the Guatemalan armed conflict from 1960 to 1996, which contributed to high levels of gender-based violence and disproportionate impact for Maya people.

Buena Semilla is a grassroots collective based in Guatemala that supports marginalized Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and their communities in their quest to reclaim their voice, wellbeing, self-authority and self-determination.

Join us to learn more about the healing and wellbeing work that Grassroots International accompanies and how you can engage via the Martín-Baró Giving Circle for Healing and Wellbeing at our Open House this Friday, April 24. This Giving Circle includes an opportunity to visit our partners in Guatemala this November. https://go.grassrootsonline.org/a/martin-baro-open-house-2026

Video footage: Buena Semilla

04/22/2026

On this Earth Day, we call attention to ongoing ecocide in Palestine and pay homage to Palestinian-led efforts to defend the Earth and sustain life against all odds.

Here we share the anonymous words of a Palestinian environmental defender whom we are honored to work with.

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04/21/2026

This we remember the importance of clean air, water, and land. Data center expansion and the AI race is putting our children’s livelihoods on the line. Data centers will drain our clean water supplies, increase our energy bills, and pollute our air, putting our health in jeopardy. Learn more on the data centers page of the Climate Justice Alliance’s website. Our community’s heartbeat is more important than a data center’s hum.