GRAIN in 2025: Highlights of our activities by GRAIN | 21 Apr 2026 Activity reports Our 2025 Highlights report shares key wins & challenges: justice for communities impacted by Socfin plantations, momentum against seed privatisation & UPOV, and growing resistance to carbon markets, agribusiness concentration, and industrial animal & aquaculture expansion. Our 2025 Highlights report shares key wins & challenges: justice for communities impacted by Socfin plantations, momentum against seed privatisation & UPOV, and growing resistance to carbon markets, agribusiness concentration, and industrial animal & aquaculture expansion.
Public food programmes are a powerful tool for food sovereignty, if done right by FIAN, GRAIN & StreetNet International | 9 Apr 2026 Supermarket Watch To unlock the true potential of public food programmes, we must build on existing local food networks. This ‘Supermarket watch’ edition looks at the importance of involving street and market vendors and the challenges faced by public food programmes in India and Indonesia. To unlock the true potential of public food programmes, we must build on existing local food networks. This ‘Supermarket watch’ edition looks at the importance of involving street and market vendors and the challenges faced by public food programmes in India and Indonesia.
States enter the carbon market rush: more harms to come for communities and the climate by GRAIN | 16 Mar 2026 Climate Governments around the world are rushing to launch an international market for carbon credits. Big polluters want to avoid reducing emissions. Global South governments are hoping for a new source of revenues. And the cowboys of the carbon offset industry need a veneer of "integrity" for their scandal-plagued projects. Governments around the world are rushing to launch an international market for carbon credits. Big polluters want to avoid reducing emissions. Global South governments are hoping for a new source of revenues. And the cowboys of the carbon offset industry need a veneer of "integrity" for their scandal-plagued projects.
Norwegian pension fund dumps Bolloré for human rights violations at plantations by Several groups | 5 Mar 2026 Land The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group. The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group.
The battle over seeds in Latin America: the legal siege and people's response by GRAIN | 12 Feb 2026 Seeds Seed laws can be a double-edged sword. They aim to regulate markets, but governments often use them to impose restrictions that undermine farmers' sovereignty and the public interest. Experiences in Peru, Brazil and Guatemala show how laws mean to recognise Indigenous and peasant seeds can fall prey to corporate pressure and generate exclusion instead. Seed laws can be a double-edged sword. They aim to regulate markets, but governments often use them to impose restrictions that undermine farmers' sovereignty and the public interest. Experiences in Peru, Brazil and Guatemala show how laws mean to recognise Indigenous and peasant seeds can fall prey to corporate pressure and generate exclusion instead.
The port of Chancay: a dramatic boost for extractivism in South America by GRAIN | 10 Feb 2026 Corporations A new report from GRAIN shows how Peru's port of Chancay, financed primarily by China, is reshaping agriculture trade routes. It is also opening the doors for new agribusiness investors and corporations to expand in South America. A new report from GRAIN shows how Peru's port of Chancay, financed primarily by China, is reshaping agriculture trade routes. It is also opening the doors for new agribusiness investors and corporations to expand in South America.
Data is power: understanding the complexities of violence against women street vendors by FIAN, GRAIN & StreetNet International | 3 Dec 2025 Supermarket Watch The data detailed by the Street Vendors Barometer paints a grim reality, yet it might also help change it. The participatory research carried out by it is meant to visibilise and empower women vendors and market traders facing gender-based violence. Participatory research transforms women vendors from subjects of the research into equal partners of the process, which generates lived-based data to expose the gendered aspects of economic exclusion. The data detailed by the Street Vendors Barometer paints a grim reality, yet it might also help change it. The participatory research carried out by it is meant to visibilise and empower women vendors and market traders facing gender-based violence. Participatory research transforms women vendors from subjects of the research into equal partners of the process, which generates lived-based data to expose the gendered aspects of economic exclusion.
Latin American and Caribbean social organisations denounce carbon markets ahead of COP30 by Several groups | 30 Oct 2025 Climate The groups say carbon markets are part of a larger carbon colonialism in which war is one of the main contemporary factors deepening the climate, ecological and social crises. The groups say carbon markets are part of a larger carbon colonialism in which war is one of the main contemporary factors deepening the climate, ecological and social crises.
SLAPP lawsuit filed by CPF against Witoon Lianchamroon and BioThai by GRAIN | 21 Oct 2025 Corporations This Oct 22, Witoon Lianchamroon of BIOTHAI goes to court over defamation charges from the giant Thai company CPF. A UN human rights representative calls it a SLAPP lawsuit, designed to silence criticism over a tilapia outbreak that has devastated farmers. This Oct 22, Witoon Lianchamroon of BIOTHAI goes to court over defamation charges from the giant Thai company CPF. A UN human rights representative calls it a SLAPP lawsuit, designed to silence criticism over a tilapia outbreak that has devastated farmers.
Who rules the roost? Corporate vs community poultry in Africa by GRAIN | 20 Oct 2025 Seeds Ghana was once self-sufficient in chicken. Then imports pushed by the World Bank decimated local farms. Now 90% of its poultry needs are imported. Today, the chicken business across Africa is fast becoming industrialised, threatening local diversity. Ghana was once self-sufficient in chicken. Then imports pushed by the World Bank decimated local farms. Now 90% of its poultry needs are imported. Today, the chicken business across Africa is fast becoming industrialised, threatening local diversity.
Free trade agreements pushing UPOV as of 2025 by GRAIN | 10 Oct 2025 Seeds New dataset from GRAIN shows how free trade agreements are used to push countries to adopt laws that criminalise seed saving and undermine food sovereignty. The UAE is now pushing UPOV through FTAs with partners like Cambodia, Malaysia and Mauritius. We must stop UPOV to protect farmers rights to seeds. New dataset from GRAIN shows how free trade agreements are used to push countries to adopt laws that criminalise seed saving and undermine food sovereignty. The UAE is now pushing UPOV through FTAs with partners like Cambodia, Malaysia and Mauritius. We must stop UPOV to protect farmers rights to seeds.
The health and nutritional costs of supermarkets by FIAN, GRAIN & StreetNet International | 4 Sep 2025 Supermarket Watch As supermarkets expand, traditional food systems shrink, endangering heritage diets and the benefits they offer to human health. In this edition, we highlight how local food systems should be the entry point for addressing issues like nutrition, labour conditions, and community strengthening. As supermarkets expand, traditional food systems shrink, endangering heritage diets and the benefits they offer to human health. In this edition, we highlight how local food systems should be the entry point for addressing issues like nutrition, labour conditions, and community strengthening.