Blog

Sharing Knowledge and Power: Brazil-Africa learning exchange benefits small farmers

By Saulo Araujo | January 26, 2012

Read more
Recovery in Haiti starts at the community level

By Mina Remy | January 9, 2012

Haitians, whether in Haiti or the diaspora, will always remember where they were on January 12, 2010, when tragedy shook us to our core. Devastating images emerged from Port-au-Prince after the earthquake that brought to mind cinematic depictions of the aftermath of a blitzkrieg. I had to constantly remind myself that an earthquake did...

Read more
Trials and Tenacity in Honduran Women’s Struggle for Land Rights

By Saulo Araujo | December 20, 2011

Despite being denied, again, title to the land on which they have labored, there is no quit in this group of women from El Estribo.

Read more
Report from Durban: UN negotiators ignore People's Declaration, climate solutions

By Sara Mersha | December 12, 2011

As UN negotiators sat in their air conditioned rooms during the last official day of the United Nations climate negotiations, I had a chance to visit a community in Pateque, Mozambique. I spoke with members of the National Peasants Union (UNAC), a member organization of the Via Campesina. They described the ways they have been impacted by...

Read more
Breaking Barriers to Human Rights: Occupy Wall Street not Palestine

By Nikhil Aziz | December 9, 2011

Read more
On Human Rights Day, POHDH, Celebrates 20 years of Human Rights Promotion and Defense in Haiti

By Mina Remy | December 9, 2011

On December 10, 2011, the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations (POHDH) will celebrate 20 years of human rights promotion and defense in Haiti. A partner of Grassroots International, POHDH is a non-partisan association of eight non-profit, non-governmental Haitian rights organizations bound by shared beliefs in human rights (individual...

Read more
Janaina Stronzake, Youth Activist: Growing up in Brazil's Occupy Land Movement

By Jonathan Leaning | December 9, 2011

Janaina Stronzake is a youth leader within Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) – the largest peasant movement in Latin America with over 1.5 million members.

Read more
Wisconsin Farmer speaks out at Occupy Wall Street

By Carol Schachet | December 8, 2011

On Sunday, December 4, food justice activists and occupiers from as far away as Colorado, Iowa, Maine and Upstate New York joined together for the Occupy Wall Street Farmers’ March in New York’s Zuccotti Park.

Among the speakers was Jim Goodman, from the Family Farmer Defenders in Wisconsin – a Grassroots...

Read more
Agribusiness is the problem, says Grassroots International partner in Durban

By Carol Schachet | December 5, 2011

Read more
Durban is Where You Are: 1000 Durbans for Climate Justice

By Shannon Duncan | December 2, 2011

Right now, government representatives from around the world are gathered in Durban, South Africa, for the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference – better known as the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17). Historically, these closed-door meetings are where some of the world’s largest polluting countries – including the United...

Read more