Food Autonomy Festival #8 (2024)
[klik hier om naar de Nederlandse vertaling te gaan] Food Autonomy Festival #8: Growing resilient roots in common ground. Let’s come together to build resilience in the food justice movement! The Food … verder lezen
📢 Join the program of the FAF#8! 📢
Let us know if you are available and motivated to take part in this gathering! We are excited to announce the eighth edition of our biggest yearly event, the Food Autonomy Festival (FAF), … verder lezen
📢 ASEED is seeking volunteers for this year’s Food Autonomy Festival #8! 📢
[klik hier om naar de Nederlandse vertaling te gaan] Would you like to participate in this year’s edition of the FAF? Are you motivated to take an active part in organization of … verder lezen
What do we want?
Today the Annual General Meeting of Yara is taking place in Norway. While they discuss how to grow their criminal business with their investors, we say loud and clear: We need … verder lezen
Farmers, workers, taxpayers: we’re all paying for Yara’s profits
Yara takes advantage of farmers’ dependency on fertilizers to make profits. The company made record profits during the 2022-23 energy crises while the prices farmers had to pay for fertilizers tripled in … verder lezen
Feeding the world… Really?
Fertilizer producers claim they are feeding the world, but do they? Recent events and studies showed that fertilizers were actually fueling food insecurity. They are making our food systems depend on unpredictable … verder lezen
Yara’s neocolonial business in Africa
The agro-industrial system that is dominant in Europe – globalized, industrial and export-oriented – is looking to take over the world. Global corporations like Cargill, Yara, and Nestlé continue past colonization with … verder lezen
Greenwashing: Yara is feeding us with lies
The fertilizer giant Yara is trying to promote itself as a climate champion, at the forefront of the fight against climate change. However, the fertilizer industry contributes about 2.4% of GhG emissions … verder lezen
Polluted water, polluted air: our health impacted by fertilizers
Fertilizers massively pollute water and air. Because plants only absorb around half of the nitrogen applied to the crops, the rest leeches into rivers, lakes, the ocean, and the groundwater, causing an … verder lezen
Yara Fertilizes Chaos
Have you ever heard that fertilizers are essential to feed an ever-growing global population? Has anyone told you that it is a miracle that there are fertilizers to grow food and feed people … verder lezen