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Sowing food sovereignty, cultivating relationships

Inter Pares helps farmers in Canada push for better climate policy, support migrant farm workers and build relationships between settler farmers and Indigenous communities.

Farming for a better food system

For decades, Inter Pares has collaborated with counterparts on sustainable food production.

Remembering “The Millet Man”: PV Satheesh

Inter Pares mourns the loss of Deccan Development Society's founder and director.

Without seed security, no food sovereignty

Seed security is the guarantee of producing or having access to quality seeds.

Agroecology led by women in West Africa

In Madina Sara, the community created a seed bank to conserve seeds.

Women-Led Agroecology is Climate Action

In Guinea-Bissau, women’s collectives and community organizations are fighting climate change through the way they produce and prepare food.

The Cycle of change

Across the globe, a new generation of activists is engaging to help rebuild and reshape our world, infusing movements for change with fresh energy and ideas.

Responding to hunger with solidarity

Sovereignty over their own food systems has allowed sanghams in India to come through past crises, and now to respond in solidarity to those in need within their communities and beyond.

Our 2020 Annual Report is here!

In our 2020 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of sustaining social justice.

Highlights 2020

We reflect on a year of shared struggle and solidarity. Here is a collection of our most memorable moments from 2020.

Women's Rights & Gender Justice

Building Resilient and Just Food Systems

The pandemic has revealed deep inequalities in our societies and the vulnerabilities of a globalized and heavily concentrated food system that needs to change.

Women representatives of Tamil Nadu Women's Collective sit in a circle, sharing and laughing.

Introducing Tamil Nadu Women's Collective

Inter Pares is pleased to introduce our newest counterpart, Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective (TNWC).

1. Sari Tudiver smiles brightly at the camera. She is wearing an orange patterned shirt and has short, close-cropped grey hair. Behind her is a grey background.

Confronting injustices together

Sari Tudiver, Chairperson of the Inter Pares Board of Directors, reflects on how communities mobilized for change in 2019.

Our 2019 Annual Report is here!

In our 2019 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of mobilizing for change.

A woman harvests rice in Bianga, Guinea-Bissau.

Civil society in Guinea-Bissau responds to COVID-19 and food crisis

Inter Pares counterpart Tiniguena is playing a key role during the pandemic.

Women crouch outside over a grid drawn with chalk as they place seeds within the squares. The women are wearing colourful saris.

Take Back the Day: Seeding the future

Collaboration between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in India has been transformative.

Remembering Ibrahim Ouedraogo

Inter Pares mourns the death of Ibrahim Ouedraogo, a giant of agroecology and the struggle for food sovereignty in Africa.

The work of social justice continues during COVID-19

In this moment of global uncertainty, grassroots mobilization gives us hope.

Women at the heart of Senegal’s transition to agroecology

ENDA Pronat and allies launch a series of policy recommendations to support Senegal's transition to agroecology.

Senegal leading the way for a transition to agroecology

DyTAES calls for the Senegalese government to adopt an agroecological approach.

Celebrating 50 years of the National Farmers Union

Inter Pares is a proud supporter and ally of the National Farmers Union (NFU).

Stopping the unstoppable: Citizen resistance to exterminator technology in Burkina Faso

“We will not be your guinea pigs!” Inter Pares counterpart COPAGEN asserted at a press conference denouncing Target Malaria’s plans to release gene

Challenging, Confronting and Defying Corporate Power

Inter Pares actively supports organizations and movements that interrogate, challenge, and curb corporate power.

Making food an election issue

Inter Pares is proud to support Eat Think Vote, a non-partisan campaign making sure food is an election issue.

Remembering Pat Kerans

Inter Pares remembers and celebrates the life of long-time activist and public intellectual Desmond Patrick Kerans.

Civil society denounces release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Burkina Faso

Civil society organizations, including Inter Pares, denounce the release of genetically modified “male-sterile” mosquitoes in Burkina Faso.

DDS and Urok Community Marine Protected Area win 2019 Equator Prize

Inter Pares is thrilled to congratulate two champions of biodiversity on winning the prestigious Equator Prize.

My dear sangham sisters

Remarks from Shree Mulay, Inter Pares Board member at the twentieth anniversary of the Mobile Biodiversity Festival, Telangana, India.

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.

Genetically modified mosquitoes in Burkina Faso – there is no consent

Gene drive mosquitoes are on the horizon in Burkina Faso as a false solution to eradicate malaria.

Welcome to Stories of Hope!

Over the next five weeks we’ll share amazing stories of hope brought to life through the words of inspiring people: Razia, Lina, Mariam, Omar and Anne.

Women's Rights & Gender Justice

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.

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 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.

Members of the COPAGEN-Inter Pares delegation celebrate International Women's Day early with their hosts at DDS.

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!

Cathleen Kneen engages panelists at Inter Pares’ 2009 AGM.

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.

Food Secure Canada's 9th Assembly, "Resetting the Table"

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.

Justicia for Migrant Workers and supporters call for migrant farmworkers to be given permanent status in Canada.

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.

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.

West African farmers in a Cotton Bt field in India

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.