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UNDROP in big format!
In support of UNDROP, FIAN Belgium has created a poster with the rights it contains. This work of art presenting UNDROP was made by artist Murielle Lô. The QR code on the bottom of the poster is a link to this website. To raise awareness of peasants’ rights, download this poster and circulate it as…
Seeds at risk
Global Struggles for Control over Food This publication is a joint work of Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment, SWISSAID. Seeds are at the hearts of peasants’ identity and struggles. With UNDROP article 19, it is now a…
Universal Periodic Review of Cuba: CETIM highlights good practices on peasants’ rights
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a human rights protection mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council. It is a process based on the review of each UN member state’s compliance with its human rights obligations and commitments. All member States are assessed by other States, which may make recommendations on different issues and with…
Research Brief: The rights to food and food sovereignty in UNDROP
RESEARCH BRIEF This research brief was first published by the Geneva Academy, you can find it here. Peasants and other people working in rural areas, including fisherfolk, pastoralists and herders feed between 70 and 80 per cent of the world population, but they represent 80 per cent of those suffering from hunger, food insecurity and…
The UN Declaration on the rights of peasants as a tool for promoting collective rights
This article was published in Friends of the Earth International’s website in April 2021. Around the world, people and communities are active in defence of the commons, territories, and peoples’ rights. From peasants protecting their seeds and traditional practices from transnational agribusiness to forest communities resisting destructive logging, many of these collective struggles take place…
Access to Land for Youth in the Canton of Geneva: Barriers and Pathways
In this article, Sonja Muriel Plüss analyses the social, legal and economic barriers to access to land for youth in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The paper argues that the current Swiss socioeconomic and legal system of family farming is arranged in a way that not only significantly hinders access to land to youth but…