March 2021

By Michael Fakhri, Hilal Elver and Olivier De Schutter From: http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/03/un-food-systems-summit-not-respond-urgency-reform/ At a critical juncture on the road to the UN Food Systems Summit, three UN rights experts warn that it will fail to be a ‘people’s summit’ unless it is urgently rethought. NEW YORK, Mar 22 2021 (IPS) – Global food systems have been […]

FAO Tool for Agroecological Performance Evaluation (TAPE) is in its pilot phase and Schola Campesina coordinates the testing in countries of  Europe and Central Asia including Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey, Moldova, Hungary, Italy (and many others to come in 2021). Beyond demontsrating the performance of agroecology, TAPE is a tool that makes visible peasant knowledge

Just Net Coalition, along with more than 170 civil society groups addressed an Open Letter to the UN Secretary General urging him to shelve plans for a High Level Multistakeholder Body which, if set up, can be expected to become the default apex global digital governance and policy body. This body is to be privately