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2026-03-04

The Potential for Breakthroughs and the Contemporary Value of China-Ghana Fisheries Cooperation: Analysis of Precise Alignment between Hubei's Experience and Ghana's Needs(Part I)

Ghana and China share a long-standing historical friendship, with diplomatic relations established 66 years ago. Currently, China is Ghana's largest trading partner and the largest source of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) with the most registered investment projects in Ghana, making it a crucial partner in Ghana's economic transformation.

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2026-02-18

Cooperatives and Collectivism: An Evolution in Africa

Cooperatives are businesses built for people, not just profit. Owned and governed by those who use them, these enterprises operate on a simple democratic truth: one member, one vote. Regardless of their financial contribution, every member has an equal seat at the table. By uniting to meet common needs, cooperatives transform customers and employees into stakeholders, working together to build a better, value-driven future.

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2025-06-11

Cooperatives in Morocco: Driving a Sustainable Rural Future

Rural cooperatives in Morocco are promoting sustainable development by bringing together traditional and women's wisdom. Despite challenges like limited land access, inadequate infrastructure, and gender barriers, cooperatives like Aghssane, Raihan, and Biosalim are transforming rural life through resilience and ingenuity.

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2025-05-07

National Agrarian Reform Fair

From May 8 to 11, 2025, São Paulo will host the 5th National Agrarian Reform Fair, organized by the MST. Ten years after its first edition in 2015, the event showcases agroecological products from landless workers across Brazil, while promoting food sovereignty, agrarian reform, and social justice.

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2024-02-06

Chinese university representatives visit UnB to learn about agricultural development technologies

In September 2023, an MoU establishing a cooperation for a Brazil-China center for research, development, and technology production in mechanization of family agriculture was signed by the University of Brasilia (UnB) and China Agricultural University (CAU).The International Association for Popular Cooperation, Baobab, has established a broader agreement between the countries for economic development and technological collaboration, which includes this particular activity.

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2024-01-16

Cooperation in Agricultural Technology between China and Argentina: A pact to improve production and wellbeing of farmers

On January 11, 2024, a cooperation agreement between Argentina and China took place. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding covers areas of cooperation such as genetic improvement, biological inputs, agricultural machinery and equipment, education and training. It aims to outline a concrete work agenda for the development and access to technology for small agricultural producers.

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2024-01-09

Theodora Pius: “They Want Monoculture, We Want Justice and Democratizing Food Systems”

The member of MVIWATA and Word March of Women Tanzania talks about peasants’ struggles in the country. The peasant organization National Network of Smallholder Farmers Groups Tanzania[Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania – MVIWATA] is part of La Via Campesina and the World March of Women Tanzania chapter. The organization has been working on the issue of farmers and peasant rights in the country since 1993. We have talked to Theodora Pius, the Head of Program of MVIWATA and activist of the World March of Women in Tanzania, about the action of transnational companies and capitalist political agendas in the African continent and in her country.

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2023-12-19

Brasilia University and MST advance in cooperation for the creation of a Brazil-China family farming research center

With the collaboration of the International Association of for Popular Cooperation, Baobab, the China Agricultural University (CAU) develops alliances with the University of Brasilia and the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in the areas of bioinputs and agricultural machinery for family agriculture. In 2015, China launched a plan to reduce the use of chemical fertilisers (by 2022, it had fallen by 15% to 50 million tons).

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2023-12-05

Women of the Land: Beyond Agriculture

Although indigenous communities are at the heart of Mexican culture, indigenous women are the most vulnerable in society in the outward-oriented development model. In Mexico, indigenous women farmers in Puebla are working on high value-added agroecological production to address the negative impacts of climate change.

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2023-09-19

Challenges of Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in the Bono Region

Chocolate is synonymous with cocoa, a product born and brewed from peasant cocoa farmers' labour, toil and sacrifice, predominantly from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Cocoa beans are refined and manufactured into chocolate far away from the shores and greens that make up the habitat of these farmers. Chocolate is enjoyed by consumers all over the world, with a global industry worth US$ 127.9 billion. It also has a worldwide consumption in 2023 pegged at 7.5 million tons and, beyond the shadow of a doubt, a popular product. Despite the fact that chocolate trade yields great benefits to manufacturers and traders, small-scale and peasant cocoa producers face harsh material conditions. In this article, we explore the factors and challenges Ghanaian producers face.

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2023-08-22

Food production and fair trading

The production, processing and commercialization of food produced by peasants is an issue of strategic importance for the peoples. Who and how food production, distribution and sales, along with the strategic orientation of production, are central elements of food sovereignty. In this article, the Commercialization Front of Brazil’s MST shares with ROOTS the movement’s experience on the processes of commercialization for the production of the People's Agrarian Reform.

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2023-06-27

Cow excrement-based biofertilizers: a sustainable option

Organic agriculture is not a well-defined package of techniques or recipes. It is not a technological alternative to replace old inputs with new ones. It is the combination of a series of technologies applied to farming communities’ social, cultural, economic, environmental and political dynamics and realities of each farming community.

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2023-06-20

Red Star Collective Farm

September 23 is a wonderful day. It is China's Peasants' Harvest Festival, Argentina's National Day of Women's Political Rights (on this day in 1947, women in Argentina got the right to vote), and it is the birthday of Argentine comrade Paula. On such a memorable day, we set off for the Red Star Collective Farm on the outskirts of Beijing.

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2023-06-20

Sowing cooperation for farmers in the South

On the morning of 8 September 2022, the sun began to rise in Recife, Brazil, and illuminated the Government Palace of Pernambuco. Fifteen thousand kilometres away, the same sun was setting in the afternoon in Beijing, over the China Agricultural University. Both places were the scene of an important moment for Brazil's northeastern family farmers. Chinese and Brazilian authorities there signed the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in agricultural mechanisation and energy.

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2023-06-20

Ancient agriculture: the rice terraces of the Hani people

More than 1,300 years ago, on the slopes of the Ailao Mountains and South of the Red River, the Hani people began to cultivate rice. The geographical particularity of the region together with the creativity and persistence of the Hani people were a symbiotic combination that gave birth to a cultural landscape that today is considered a UNESCO World Heritage site¹ and an FAO World Agricultural Heritage site².