Gender equality through women-led agroecology
Together with our counterparts, we are campaigning for an agroecology that cultivates autonomy.
Hope in the Countryside: Abdoulaye’s story
Eight years ago, Abdoulaye Déme left his village in Les Niayes, Senegal, and boarded a pirogue for the Canary Islands.
Inter Pares at Food Secure Canada
Inter Pares is proud to participate in Food Secure Canada's 10th assembly: resetting the table.
Introducing… ENDA Pronat
Inter Pares is proud to announce its new relationship with Enda Pronat, a Senegalese organization advocating for sustainable and fair development.
Uprooting Inequality Brief
The Food Security Policy Group urges Canada to focus on small-scale farming to achieve gender equality and empowerment of women.
Behind the scenes at Inter Pares
In this issue, we invite you behind the scenes at Inter Pares.
Rural Women-to-Women exCHANGEs
An exchange that brought together farmers and rural women leaders from Canada, the West African biodiversity coalition COPAGEN, and the Deccan Development Society (DDS) in India.
A New Vision for Land in Burma
Sai Khur Hseng is an activist who works closely with local community groups in Burma who stand up for customary land tenure systems that protect their land and the environment.
A critical look at the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Senegal
Presentation of key findings from the evaluation of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Senegal.
Walking the path together: Building solidarity between West African and southern Indian farmers
What do West Africa and southern India have in common? Quite a lot!
Inter Pares Film Nights - Return to Manomin
In Return to Manomin, filmmaker Michelle Derosier struggles to persuade four generations of her kin to revive their traditional annual wild rice (Manomin) harvest. Come and learn about Michelle's struggles and discuss the film's themes after the screening.
Improving Canada’s Contribution to Women’s Access to Land in Africa
How is it some rights are protected and some not, some laws enforced and some not? Women farmers grow 70% of Africa’s food but often have few rights to land. Massive land grabs by elites and foreign corporations are making the situation worse. Inter Pares’ Jean Symes recently spoke on an expert panel to a conference about how Canada can support African women farmers to keep their land.
My Retirement, Not at the Price of Human Dignity!
Quebec and BC’s pension funds have land investments in Brazil that are forcing peasants off their land through violence and fraud. Take action now and write to their CEOs.
Cathleen Kneen: Our big sister
Program manager Eric Chaurette shares his ten-year collaboration with Cathleen, a tireless leader for food sovereignty who passed away this spring.
Women Who Inspire
This bulletin celebrates women's leadership and Inter Pares' commitment to feminism and gender equality.
Cathleen Kneen: Our big sister
Program manager Eric Chaurette shares his ten-year collaboration with Cathleen, a tireless leader for food sovereignty who passed away this spring.
Inter Pares helping to reset the table at the Food Secure Canada Assembly
This event will bring together an estimated 700 delegates to share knowledge, learn from others and build the relationships.
Migrant Dreams screening at the One World Film Festival
As a special afternoon edition of the Inter Pares Film Nights, Inter Pares is sponsoring a screening of Migrant Dreams, a documentary film by Min Sook Lee exposing the precarity and rights abuses that migrant farmworkers in Ontario face, at the One World Film Festival on October 1st.
Harvesting Freedom tour for migrant workers' rights
From September 4th to October 3rd, migrant farmworkers are marching and caravanning across Ontario from Windsor to Ottawa, marking the 50th anniversary of Canada's "temporary" migrant farmworker programs. The caravan is raising awareness among Canadians about how our food system relies on their precarious and underpaid labour, and call on the federal government to offer them permanent residence status and to respect their labour rights.
Rising up for migrant farmworkers' rights
This fall, two important series of events are drawing attention to the structural injustice that migrant farmworkers face in Canada, and to their demands for change.
Inter Pares Film Nights – Raising Resistance
This film explores Latin American farmers' struggle against the expanding production of genetically modified soy in South America. Eric Chaurette, Inter Pares food sovereignty program manager, will join us for a post-screening conversation on the issues profiled in the film.
2015 Highlights
Here are some highlights of what we’ve accomplished with our counterparts around the world in 2015.
Foreign Pension Funds and Land Grabbing in Brazil
Swedish, US and Canadian pension funds have acquired farmlands in Brazil by way of a Brazilian businessman accused of using violence and fraud to displace small farmers. These pension funds are also using complex company structures that have the effect of evading Brazilian laws restricting foreign investments in farmland.
Top Swedish, US and Canadian pension funds linked to Brazilian land grabs, displacement of people
A New York company managing the retirement savings of workers in Sweden, the US and Canada is evading Brazilian laws on foreign investment to acquire farmlands from a businessman accused of violently displacing local communities.
The Future of International Solidarity
Over forty years, we have witnessed incredible change in the countries where we work. While some rights have been gained, others become threatened.
GMO cotton failure in Burkina Faso: Farmers speak out
For two years, over 500 farmers from the different cotton-growing regions in Burkina Faso documented their experience with Monsanto’s Bt cotton. This three-year farmer-led research initiative, called “Bt Cotton and Us: The Truth from our Fields,” provides an important counterbalance, as Burkina Faso was the first country in West Africa to adopt genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and industry often lauds its success when promoting GMOs in other countries.
Why is Inter Pares concerned with GMOs?
Inter Pares works to support and promote food sovereignty and ecological agriculture. Here are a few of the reasons Inter Pares is concerned about GMOs.
A stylish block party - Eat Think Vote Campaign
Join thousands of individuals and organizations across the country who want to make food a critical issue in the federal election this fall!
Inter Pares Film Nights – The World According to Monsanto
The World According to Monsanto is a documentary about the controversial corporate operations of Monsanto, the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Defending Land and Livelihood
This bulletin shows how Inter Pares is supporting communities to find justice in Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. It also examines the human abuses perpetrated against migrant workers here in Canada.
The truth from our fields
Inter Pares staff Eric Chaurette visited a cotton farmer group in Burkina Faso in February 2015. He got the latest news on the farmer-researcher project.
The Power of Collective Action in Bangladesh
Nijera Kori landless groups in the communities of Charbata, Bangladesh, successfully led collective action to protect the land to farm and the river to fish.
Happy Birthday Tiniguena!
Tiniguena, founded in 1991, is a courageous organization that over its history has managed to accomplish big things.
The Future of International Solidarity: an open dialogue - Videos
Live again or discover the highlights of Inter Pares 40th anniversary event by watching these videos.
The Future of International Solidarity: Over 100 participants!
On April 30th, over 100 activists from Ottawa-Gatineau and around the world joined Inter Pares for its 40th anniversary event.
Inter Pares Film Nights - spotlight on landgrabs (in French)
For our 40th anniversary, we will showcase thought-provoking documentaries for free to inspire, inform and galvanize action for more equal societies. This month, we showcase Fièvre verte, a documentary that shines a light on a phenomenon of massive land acquisition by foreign corporate interest in West Africa. This film gives voices to communities, especially women, who have to live with the disastrous consequences of landgrabs in Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea-Bissau.
Highlights 2014
Highlights from 2014 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.
Green Fever documentary
A must-see documentary video on the worldwide phenomenon of massive land acquisition in West Africa.
Unforgettable learning exchange for West African, Canadian and Indian farmers
While continents apart, West Africa and the State of Andhra Pradesh in India share similar challenges. These include water scarcity, climate change, and aggressive efforts to introduce genetically modified crops.
Connecting the Dots: The power of people meeting people
This bulletin presents how Inter Pares link individuals and organizations from Canada, the Philippines, Guatemala, India and West Africa.
Songs and Seeds of Freedom: Building solidarity among farmers from West Africa and India
Inter Pares facilitates a learning exchange amongst West African and Indian farmers.
Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All
Hundreds of food leaders from across Canada will converge in Halifax November 13-16th, 2014 for Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All, Food Secure Canada’s eighth National Assembly.
The True Face of Landgrabs in West Africa
Participatory research reveals disastrous impacts on communities.
How access to land leads to gender equality in Chiapas
Inserting women’s perspective into the communal land system in Mexico.
Upholding the Law on Shifting Sands
A courageous community in Bangladesh reclaims their land.
Land Rights and Communities
This bulletin is about struggles for land rights that communities are facing – and overcoming – in Bangladesh, Mexico, and nine West African countries.
Inter Pares at the International Conference "Feeding Cities"
On June 23rd, Inter Pares program manager Eric Chaurette will present a workshop on Landgrabs in West Africa at the international conference "Feeding Cities: Rural-Urban Connections and the Future of Family Farming."
Farmers in Ghana displaced for Canadian mine seek justice
Farmers desperate after 10 year struggle for fair compensation for farms destroyed for Canadian mine.
Canadian solidarity with migrant workers
Inter Pares promotes solidarity and collaboration between the migrant justice and food justice movements.
