AGRA Watch

04/17/2026

04/17/2026

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La Via Campesina releases its position document on wars around the world, in the framework of the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Peasant Struggles.

International Day of Peasant Struggles - La Via Campesina releases its position document on wars around the world, in the framework of the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Peasant Struggles

04/17/2026

April 17: International Day of Peasant Struggles
Thirty years ago today, 19 rural workers were killed in Brazil protecting their right to farm the land to feed their communities. Their fight has a name: Food Sovereignty. It’s the belief that communities, not corporations, decide what is grown in their territories, how it is grown and whom it feeds. Today, on International Day of Peasant’s Struggle, we honor their legacy and champion the peasant farmers, fishers, and Indigenous Peoples who work to build sustainable and just food systems on their own terms.

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03/31/2026

"Over the weekend, writers and journalists were left reeling after Megan McArdle, long-time columnist at The Washington Post, gushed about the benefits of using AI to optimize her writing.

“Think of your chatbot as a combination of an intern, a first-pass editor, and fact-checker,” she advised in a series of tweets that possessed the genteel tone of a telemarketer peddling a fraudulent scheme. While McArdle was emphatic about not using the technology to generate ideas, she praised its ability to take care of the “grunt work,” which she considers secondary to writing and thinking.

If you’re a media professional who’s been forced to relinquish the idea of earning a living from the work you love to hate, it’s hard not to feel taunted by this casual admission of corner-cutting from a successful and salaried writer at a legacy publication.
..For all we know, McArdle’s endorsement of AI could be a shameless plug encouraged in a company-wide memo by the ghoulish Jeff Bezos, who seems hellbent on driving the publication that leaked Watergate into extinction. Paid ad or not, it still raises the question of why a writer with the luxury of institutional backing, staff support, and guaranteed income would pawn off the most vital parts of their job to a robot."

Over the weekend, writers and journalists were left reeling after Megan McArdle, long-time columnist at The Washington Post, gushed about the benefits of using AI to optimize her writing. “Think of your chatbot as a combination of an intern, a first-pass editor, and fact-checker,” she advised in...

03/26/2026

03/26/2026

Between 2017-2024, the World Bank provided over US$100 million for the Resilient Natural Resources Management for Tourism and Growth (REGROW) project, which doubled the size of Ruaha National Park and funded paramilitary Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) rangers responsible for killings, forced disap...

03/26/2026

The Gates Foundation and its Nairobi-based agriculture initiative paid public relations consultants to remove critical content from AGRA’s Wikipedia description.