Lands for the Taking: Neo-Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Unravelling of International Law
12-13 March 2026
12 March: 09h-20h30
13 March: 10h-14h30
Location: Geneva (Switzerland)
Newsletter n°9 | Seed Sovereignty: Advancements and Setbacks in the Right to Seeds
As 2025 draws to a close, Defending Peasants’ Rights has published key updates on recent global developments impacting the right to seeds A milestone victory for Kenyan peasants! In November, a milestone judicial victory for peasants took place in Kenya. As Karine Peschard explains in her article, the UNDROP provided an important legal leverage in…
Corporate impunity and seed sovereignty: Interview with the Rural Womens’ Assembly (RWA)
Interview conducted by Defending Peasants’ Rights in October 2025, on the occasion of the 11th session of negotiations for a UN legally binding treaty to regulate transnational corporations, held at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Interviewees: Lungisa Huna – RWA South Africa; Grace Tepula and Precious Shonga – RWA Zambia; Zakithi Sibandze – RWA…
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[WEBINAR] Defending Farmers’ Rights to Seeds: The Role of Judicial Action in Africa — Insights from Kenya.
Thursday, 15 January – Online
11am GMT / 14h East Africa Time
Peasants’ right to seed – Briefing paper by the Working Group on peasants and other people working in rural areas
Article originally posted on: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/tools-and-resources/peasants-right-seed-briefing-paper-working-group-peasants-and-other (26 November 2025) The Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas has issued a briefing paper on peasants’ right to seed, in connection with the Eleventh Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture…
17 December: The 7th anniversary of UNDROP
The 17 December 2025 marks the 7th anniversary of the adoption of UNDROP! We publish here below the statement issued by the UN Working Group of Experts on UNDROP on this occasion, which reflects on the ongoing relevance and urgency of the UNDROP. On this anniversary, the indispensable contributions of peasants, small-scale fishers, pastoralists, herders,…
Kenya’s seed sharing ruling a milestone for peasants’ rights and food security: UN experts
Image: https://static2.pelahatchienews.com/data/articles/xl-why-seed-sovereignty-is-vital-for-indigenous-peoples-1694443833.jpg Defending Peasants’ Rights hereby republishes the press release issued by the UN Working Group on Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas on 11 December 2025 (available here) GENEVA – UN experts* today welcomed a landmark ruling of the High Court of Kenya declaring unconstitutional provisions of the Seed and Plant Varieties…
Trilogue agreement on GMOs-NGTs: A betrayal of farmers’ legitimate concerns on patents, health, the environment, and consumers’ rights to information
Defending Peasants’ Rights hereby republishes the press release issued by the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) on 04 December 2025. Yesterday evening, representatives from the three European institutions came to an agreement on the trilogue on the proposal to deregulate plant GMOs obtained by new genomic techniques (GMOs-NGTs). The European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), representing…
Landmark victory for Kenyan peasants and seed sovereignty
Editor’s note: A new court ruling marks a historic milestone for peasants’ rights and the right to seeds in Kenya and internationally. In an unprecedented decision, the High Court has reaffirmed that rights protected by the Constitution must be interpreted in light of international frameworks such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of…
The 7th Commemoration of UNDROP: Sharing Struggles and the Implementation of UNDROP
Friday, 19 December 2025 – Online
14h WIB (GTM+7)
Indonesian Peasants’ Union (Serikat Petani Indonesia / SPI) – La Via Campesina
Bridging or Excluding? Peasant Participation in the Digitalization of Agroecology
image: https://revolve.media/beyond/what-is-agroecology This article provides a summary of an academic paper written by Romberg de Sá Gondim (avaliable here) Introduction As digital tools tend to incorporate a top-down and corporate driven approach, these technologies have been easily assimilated by large-scale farms and in particular with the Green Revolution (Shelton et al., 2022). On another hand,…
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit – COP 30 Belém
Defending Peasants’ Rights hereby republishes the Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit (COP 30) available here. We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 12 to 16 November 2025, declare to the peoples of the world what we have accumulated in struggles, debates, studies, exchanges of experiences, cultural activities and…