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Don’t let big ag mergers get you down
By Jennifer Lentfer, Director of Communications Chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer Corporation’s confirmed $66 billion takeover of Monsanto yesterday was staggering news. The new company will...
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When defending the environment means risking your life
For grassroots environmental rights defenders across the Global South, the work of protecting ecosystems is becoming increasingly dangerous. Urgent Action Fund and numerous investigative reports like...
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Press Release: Learning exchanges among food activists speed up response to...
BERKELEY AND BOSTON – Small, locally led organizations are producing abundant, healthy and locally produced food, and learning exchanges between farmers can help spread innovative and sustainable...
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IDEX South Africa partners make cases on international stages
Putting Monsanto on trial The Monsanto Tribunal and a People’s Assembly for the future of food will take place from October 14-16, 2016 at The Hague. The Monsanto Tribunal will hold Monsanto...
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Peru’s Potato Park: “Buen vivir” in practice
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America The highest authority in the Andean communities overseeing the Potato Park near Cusco, Peru, is not the government, a local leader, or...
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Peru’s indigenous women are marching into Congress (and asking ministers to...
“We want at least 10 indigenous women running for Congress for 2021. And those women should come from FENMUCARINAP.” This was one of the big goals that FENMUCARINAP, an IDEX catalyst grantee, gave...
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IDEX Statement of Solidarity with SDCEA
UPON THE 21ST ANNIVERSARY OF SOUTH DURBAN COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE (SDCEA) IDEX’s staff, grantees, board members, supporters, and allies are pleased to share our admiration and gratitude for...
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Rest in Power
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America “Quisieron enterrarnos pero no sabían que eramos semillas.” http://muroshablados.es/archives/10671 “They thought they would bury us, but...
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Want to prepare for the future? Ask the elders
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America “When we focus on youth entrepreneurship for indigenous youth, this cannot be unconnected to food production,” says Shelley Cabrera,...
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3 keys to strengthening women’s leadership in Peru
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America El Grupo Género y Economía (Gender and Economy Group, or GGE) is a collective composed of women and social organizations that are...
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