Day of the Landless 2023: Rural Peoples Unite for Land, Food, and Climate Justice!
In the past four decades, imperialist powers led by the US and their institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO) and others, in collaboration with compliant neo colonial states, have promoted neoliberal policies around the world. Neoliberal restructuring has given imperialism tight and comprehensive control over economies, including full […]
No justice, no peace: Support the Burmese peoples’ struggle against the military junta
Joint statement initiated by the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), the Int’l Indigenous People’s Movement on Self-determination and Liberation (IPMSDL), PAN Asia Pacific, Mekong Solidarity, and Cambodian Youth Network Association (CYN). We, rural peoples organizations of the Global South, stand with the peoples of Burma in their luminous struggle against the military junta of […]
PCFS welcomes historic UN High Seas Treaty, challenges UN and member states to “deliver the missing half”
Statement on the signing of the United Nations Treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty welcomed the signing of a landmark agreement to regulate the use and conservation of marine biodiversity on the high seas. The Global South-led movement also issued a challenge to the implementing body and states […]
Communique: PCFS 5th General Assembly
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) convened its 5th General Assembly (GA) from 18 to 19 October 2022 with the theme “Advance the movement for people’s food sovereignty, defeat neoliberalism, and radically transform our food systems!” The GA, hosted by PCFS Africa, gathered participants physically in Kampala, Uganda, and virtually via Zoom. PCFS Global […]
PCFS 5th General Assembly: Advance the movement for people’s food sovereignty, defeat neoliberalism, and radically transform our food systems!
The extent of today’s global food crisis has only made our call for radical food systems transformation more urgent and imperative. Last year saw hunger figures and food prices soar to an alarming level, the highest in the past decade. Yet these record-breaking figures only garnered global attention as being part of a bigger crisis […]
Rural Peoples Conference on Land, Hunger, and Climate
Unchain Our Food: Advancing People’s Food Sovereignty amid a Global Food and Climate Catastrophe 17 and 18 October, 7 to 10 AM CET | 9AM to 12PM Uganda/Jordan | 11AM to 2PM Australia (Sydney) | 2 to 5PM Philippines/Malaysia | 3 to 6AM Chile Register to join: bit.ly/RuralPeoplesConference2022 The world is yet again at a turning […]
Breaking the Imperialist Food Chains: Online Forum on the Global Food Crisis
A year after the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), the global food crisis rages on, driving billions of people into hunger and food insecurity. Amid the ongoing pandemic, price hikes, and climate emergency, the urgency and necessity to radically transform our food systems have never been so stark. While they created these multiple crises, the […]
World Hunger Day 2022: Unchain Our Food from Imperialism!
Today’s global food crisis is an undeniable manifestation of how imperialism has chained our food. Global hunger figures are again at an all-time high. In 2021, around 2.3 billion worldwide suffered from food insecurity, while 3.1 billion could not afford a healthy diet. Those affected by hunger increased by 46 million after a year, to […]
On the 50th anniversary of the Martial Law declaration in PH
Today, we not only remember, but also rage in lucidity. On the 50th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines, we mark the continuing struggle of the Filipino people against neoliberalism and state repression. And struggle we must, not just against the revisionism of our nation’s past but also against the fascist […]