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📜Open call for papers! 🌏In October 2023, Beijing, a conference on Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century will mark the 50th anniversary of JPS. 📅Deadline: Friday 5 May 2023 tni.org/en/article/ope…

17 April: International Day of Peasant Struggles! To celebrate La Via Campesina (Official EN)'s 30th anniversary, we have put together an exceptional collection, with interviews of key leaders of the movement, along with a piece by Jun Borras And it's free access! peasantjournal.org/news/a-special…

✊🏽 In the face of endless ‘crises’, communities worldwide are reclaiming their land from corporate hands 📅 On the Int. Day of #PeasantStruggles, we launch a series of articles to bring the right to land back to the political agenda #WeBelongToTheLand 👉 bit.ly/4373V2R

Today we're celebrating International Day of #PeasantStruggles. There are more than 600 million farms in the world, and most of them are family farms. But land distribution is shockingly unequal and things keep getting worse. ⬇️🧵

Save 4th May, 3- 4.30pm for the next Journal of Fair Trade Society meeting for updates on the Journal of Fair Trade, how Open Access is going & the push forward to build a global Journal of Fair Trade Society. Register eventbrite.com/e/save-the-dat… Read JoFT bit.ly/JoFT_collection

Water is the substance of life - but today it is increasingly viewed through the lens of its market value. It is now possible to speculate on water futures - and the prognoses are alarming at best. Today, 90% of all climate disasters are water related.👇🧵

TNI researcher Sylvia Kay explains how the quest for renewable energy production can facilitate 'green grabbing' - land grabbing in the name of environmental protection, for BBC future: bbc.com/future/article…

🚨 International conference: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century 🗓️ Beijing, 10-12 October 2023 It is still time to submit your abstract! Do it before May 5th:⏰ More info here 👇 peasantjournal.org/news/internati…

Listen to Transnational Institute guests Sylvia Kay & colleagues speak about Fair Trade Cannabis bit.ly/TNICannabis at our most recent Journal of Fair Trade Society meeting held on 4th May. Read the related Fair Trade Cannabis article #OpenAccess here bit.ly/TNI_cannabis

Tunisia is on the frontlines of an intersecting economic, migrant, climate and food crisis. This latest Transnational Institute and Siyada Network/ شبكة سيادة report analyses the consequences of EU trade policy for food sovereignty and sustainability in Tunisia. Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable tni.org/en/publication…

Small scale farmers in Tunisia are caught between two competing and powerful forces, international actors and internal governmental policy that protects corporations. Transnational Institute's Sylvia Kay writes for Africa Is a Country: africasacountry.com/2023/09/living…

"If the EU really wants to address what it calls a 'migration crisis', it needs to rethink its extractive trade policies with the rest of the world, and not enter agreements that only lead to more precarity." — #AJOpinion by Sylvia Kay ⤵️ aje.io/zsqq82

A deal signed between Tunisia and the EU is leaving Tunisian farmers to fend for themselves while a few investors control the production and refinement of olive oil, the nation's biggest export. Sylvia Kay explains the situation via Africa Is a Country. buff.ly/3PJhAHp

The EU’s extractive trade policies in Tunisia contribute to #migration ➡️If the EU really wants to address what it calls a ‘migration crisis’, it needs to rethink how it trades with the rest of the world, says Sylvia Kay bilaterals.org/?the-eu-s-extr…

Organizing the #JPS50 conference has been a labour of love, rendered possible by the incredible generosity and commitment of the College of Humanities and Development (COHD) and the tireless work of the JPS community and its allies and friends from Transnational Institute and Casas South

Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted food production, responsible for 10.9% of GDP, threatening global food security. Export-oriented agribusiness suffered, while family farms and rural households provided food for Ukrainians. tni.org/en/article/ukr…

The heart of Ukrainian agriculture lies in the blend of large-scale industry and family-based farming, creating a diverse rural landscape. How has the war affected this balance? tni.org/en/article/ukr…

Sylvia Kay Martin Jelsma & David Bewley-Taylor Swansea University discuss concerns over the many for-profit cannabis companies from the Global North aggressively competing and squeezing out small and traditional cannabis farmers from the Global South. scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…

9 Key points on Ukrainian Agriculture in Wartime – Resilience, Reforms, & Markets. Natalia Mamonova summarises the key points from a new long read from Transnational Institute arc2020.eu/9-key-points-o…