Food Sovereignty Archives - Ejustice
Agroecology to feed The world with healthy food
HEMANTHA WITHANAGE Fernando Funes is a Cuban academic who left his teaching job to become a farmer. His two Ha land produce Lettuce and other salad plant to meet the demand in Cuba and even export to France and Belgium. His bee hives produce honey for the local and international market. Few kilometers away former
How is Colombo Port City of China impacting fishing communities in Sri Lanka?
By Hemantha Withanage, Centre for Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka Manoja is a 50-year-old woman with one son and two daughters and lives in Pitipana village. Her husband is a fisherman and she sells the fish he catches at a road-side market. Fishing is their only source of income and her husband earned Rs1500 (around US$8)
Do we have seeds for one Million Home Gardens?
In the amidst of COVID 19, Government of Sri Lanka initiated the “Saubhagya National Programme on Harvesting and Cultivation” on 4th April 2020 which aims to develop 1 million home gardens. It will encourage rural projects to encourage seed farms, popularize organic fertilizer use and encourage production of home crops, popularize home gardens as a
Agrofuel
Sri Lanka plans to run train engines with biofuel by 2010 from Corn, Sugar cane, Soya Bean produce biofuel. This has created a food crisis. Millions of forest lands have been cleared for making sugar cane, Soya and Oil palm in Brazil,Indonesia and many other contries. This lang grabbing lead the poor indegenious people loose their