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Leaked document reveals plans for massive land grabbing in Northern Mozambique

The warning arrives from a group of civil society's organizations which have been able to see a leaked copy of the Master Plan of the Pro-SAVANA programme dated March 2013. The document confirms the worst fear: governments of Japan, Brazil and Mozambique are secretly paving the way for a massive land grab in Northern Mozambique. Several civil society's organizations and their partners in Mozambique are now making this plan publicly available, along with their JOINT STATEMENT. Please visit the GRAIN website for more information. 

  • The Food Sovereignty Prize 2013. Calls for Nominations

    The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is now accepting nominations for the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize. Since 2009, the Food Sovereignty Prize has been awarded to an organization - rural or urban - that advances the cause of food sovereignty through education and direct, collective action. The Deadline for Nominations is May 20. 

  • Principles for responsible agricultural investments

    The More and Better Network engages in the process to develop principles for responsible agricultural investments (RAI) within the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) framework. We encourage member organizations of More and Better to take part in, organize local, national and regional consultations and to be active in commenting and proposing changes in the draft principles. The CFS Zero Draft of the RAI principles is now available in English ...

  • Principles and examples of good, responsible investments in smallholder agriculture

    More and Better encourages its partners and friends to engage in the discussions about Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment to be developed by the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and likely to be adopted in October 2014. The first draft of the document will be released this month (April 2013). You can engage by organizing your own consultations and/or participating in consultations organized by others. There will be also Regional civil society consultations and regional multistakeholders consultations organized respectively by the Civil Society Mechanism and the CFS secretariat... 

  • WSF2013 | More and Better workshop: A radical change is needed

    The World Social Forum was for More and Better a great opportunity to share experiences and debate around agricultural transition and other forms of unconventional agriculture. Our successful workshop Agricultural Transition – into a viable future brought us many encouraging experiences from different countries and diverse actors while confirming, once again, that the environmental and social costs of industrialized agriculture are no longer acceptable among the general public. 

  • More and Better at the World Social Forum 2013

    We are pleased to invite you at the workshop "Agricultural Transition - into a viable future", organized by More and Better in cooperation with many other organizations, with inputs from leaders of farmers’ and fisherfolks’ organizations, international institutions, scientists and activists. Read more...

  • Towards a viable food future, join us at the World Social Forum

    Also this year More and Better will be present at the World Social Forum, hosted this time by Tunisia (26-30 March). We are organizing a side event in cooperation with other organizations with the aim to stimulate the debate around agroecology and real changes towards sustainable forms of farming. More than 4000 organizations and networks are already registered into the Forum and more than 1500 activities have been proposed....

  • Post 2015: informal consultation with CFS and CSOs reaction

    An informal Consultation with CFS stakeholders was convened by FAO and WFP on February 11th, 2013 in Rome, in the context of Global Thematic Consultation on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition towards  the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Much critics were raised from civil society side regarding the consultation process... 

  • A Million NOs to Golden Rice

    A Petition to stop the commercialization of Golden Rice promoted by Searice.

    2013 has been declared the National Year of Rice in the Philippines, in line with the national government’s desire to achieve rice self-sufficiency for the country. While this may be good on the surface, it is quite alarming that part of the efforts to achieve rice self-sufficiency involves the commercialization of Golden Rice, a genetically modified rice variety that is said to be vitamin A enriched.
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  • Inputs to the Vo drafts of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition reports.

    The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) has published the V0 draft of the report “Investing in smallholder agriculture for food and nutrition security” and the V0 draft of the report “Biofuel and Food Security”. The online consultation, hosted by the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition and launched to collect feedback and inputs to improve this early drafts has been extended to the 3rd of February.
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  • A welcome to our new members!

    A warmly welcome to ILEIA and the AgriCultures Network as new members of the More and Better. We look forward to strengthening our cooperation with them on issues of common concern, in 2013 and beyond. Both the organizations are pretty much in line with the work that More and Better has done so far, with our goals and principles. For those of you who do not know them yet, we are pleased to include here a brief description of what they do and how they concretly contribute to the fight against hunger and poverty. 
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