CSO body to the UN stands with Cavite fisherfolk vs. order to dismantle mussel farms, fisheries structure in Manila Bay
“The Philippine government is obviously callous and disrespectful of fishing rights and paradoxical of common sense that food production under the pandemic is of utmost importance. As early as June 2020, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned of a global food crisis due to the pandemic and called for appropriate actions to prevent it. But Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte seemed senseless as it is ordering the exact opposite,” Sylvia Mallari, CSM Coordinating Committee representing the Southeast Asia Sub-Region, said in a press statement.
Tree planting as resistance in Palestine
In 2001, a group concerned with the Palestinian struggle for justice formed to launch the Million Tree Campaign (MTC) in response to these pressures. In the past 20 years, the campaign has planted two and a half million trees, bolstering Palestinian foodways and preserving Palestinian land rights.1 The group that started the MTC later became the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, which now works to achieve food sovereignty across the region, with an emphasis on areas experiencing war and occupation.