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The attack on nature is putting humanity at risk: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)

Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on November 10, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) |

In the last week of October, João Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil and the global peasants’ organisation La Via Campesina, went to the Vatican to attend the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, organised by the Community of Sant’Egídio.
How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit

Originally published: How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit on September 23, 2021 by Nils McCune and Camila Escalante (more by How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit) (Posted Sep 27, 2021)

Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the United Nations Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty.