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And save the date for TNI’s upcoming online conference: The State of the World Conference held 14-17 September.
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Dear reader,
TNI's The State of the World online conference will start on 14 September.
Building on the immense success of its COVID Capitalism webinar series in 2020, we are organising a unique, cutting-edge conference for activists and researchers to make sense of the state of the world in the wake of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and rising geopolitical tensions. What are the challenges and opportunities for social movements struggling for systemic transformation?
Registration for this four day online event opens soon – stay tuned.
To better serve our broad Spanish-speaking community, we have launched a Spanish-language Twitter account. Follow us here to stay up to date with our Spanish-language research: twitter.com/TNInstitute_es
And you can also now find TNI on TikTok! tiktok.com/@transnationalinstitute
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While most of us probably rarely think about it on a daily basis, the handful of transnational corporations that dominate the mining industry play a key role in providing inputs for goods we use every day – from smartphones to food. Their profits stem from their role in the production of these goods: control of extraction of minerals at the starting point of the vast global supply chains that stretch from Chilean and Congolese mineral landscapes to – in the case of smartphones – our pockets.
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Fisheries are one of Europe’s most challenging and dangerous employment sectors. While they remain a central pillar of the European food system, the sector still relies on strikingly unequal and gendered labour relations. This report looks at the French case, where women are the engine behind the commercialisation of local artisanal fish.
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Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and marginalised communities face particular exposure to environmental harms. This holds particularly true for populations in the global South. The role of illicit drugs in relation to these environmental stresses is an under explored terrain. Yet, as this report will argue, drugs, as well as the policy responses to them, are an environmental issue.
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Millions of people have found a lifeline in the illicit cannabis economy in these past decades, but traditional cannabis farmers in the South are confronted with huge obstacles to participating in the emerging legal markets. The rapidly expanding legal cannabis markets for medical and adult use are increasingly captured by corporate businesses. Cultivation is more and more shifting from the South to the North, from small farmers to big companies, and from outdoor to indoor, with negative impacts on sustainable development goals. This first TNI Cannabis Policy Brief argues that it is vital that the socio-economic needs and rights of traditional cannabis producers are not overlooked and that ‘no-one is left behind’ in this historic transition.
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While the struggle against military rule continues, Lahkyen Roi analyses in this commentary how natural resource exploitation, land-grabbing and the marginalisation of local peoples underpin poverty, suffering and conflict in Kachin State. A once pristine land of biodiverse forestry, mineral and water potential, Kachin State is today one of Myanmar’s poorest territories. While the natural environment is degraded, the resources of local communities are plundered by outside actors, over-extraction, business cronies and military elites. The establishment of political reform and peace in a new system of federal democracy is essential if the local peoples are to live decent and dignified lives.
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This new research shows how corporations are deepening their control of global ocean politics and argues that the UN should take a critical look at the influence it gives to corporate actors putting profit over people and planet.
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Fish auction markets, or ‘halles à marées’, are fundamental public players on French coastal areas. They enable small-scale and industrial fishing professionals to sell and buy the day's catch. Some of them, such as the one in the French port city of Quiberon, Brittany, have adopted their own strategy to compete with larger fish markets. The Quiberon fish market has chosen to distinguish itself by selling live fish and applying the Japanese slaughtering method called ikejime. Initially implemented for economic reasons, this strategy now seems to offer some of the key characteristics of more sustainable fishing.
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This longread presents a critical analysis of the UN Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme, regarding their approach and purpose, in order to examine this survey mechanism and take stock of the effectiveness of its direction and the factors it takes into account.
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More that 120 civil society organizations have signed a letter to call on policy makers in Mexico and the European Union not to ratify the "modernised" EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (EU-Mexico FTA).
Here are 6 reasons why.
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How are coastal communities dealing with the capitalist advance into the oceans, the so-called Blue economy? And what are the challenges faced by small-scale fishers today? In this conversation Thibault Josse makes the case for community supported fisheries.
Thibault Josse works at Association Pleine Mer, a collective of fisher people and fish eaters working together for local, equitable and sustainable fisheries, through the development and strengthening of Community Supported Fisheries. A fisheries engineer, he works with coastal communities in France and in the Global South for social and environmental justice.
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The European Summer University of Social Movements this year will be held in Moenchengladbach, Germany, from August 17 - 21.
You can register here.
TNI will participate and/or co-host the following events at the ESU22:
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