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CONFRAS Defines Food Sovereignty
An interview with original CONFRAS founder, Miguel Aleman, and current CONFRAS president, Abel Nahin Lara Ruiz. What is food sovereignty? It is about food and land. We are capable of producing our own...
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Rediscovering Roots: Benefits of Breadnuts
Sarah and Katy spent the day making food at the CIETTA workshop Have you ever had pancakes made with breadnut flour?They’re fluffy, sweet, and taste a little like chocolate.SHARE staff Katy Strader...
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Celebrating 25 years with the CCR
On Saturday, June 22, the Association for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR) celebrated 25 years of community organizing with a regional assembly of founding members and representatives from the...
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Developing Women’s Rights: Roundtable Event in Chalatenango
Women of CCR In the 1970s, the valiant women of Chalatenango began organizing their communities, combating historical human rights abuses, fighting for women’s rights, and against mining. Today,...
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“Juntas Somos Más”
Women at the Natonal Assembly cheering! On October 15th, The Alliance of Rural Women convened for the Third National Assembly, at the National University of El Salvador. Various organizations of women...
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New Legislation Bans Chemicals, Aims to Prevent Kidney Failure
What do you do if one out of every four men in your town suffered from mysterious kidney failure? This is a question that rural communities from San Vicente, El Salvador, to Sandamalgama, Sri Lanka, to...
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Cuentos de Chalatenango: Food Sovereignty and Rural Women’s Empowerment
The following is the semester report for the Food Sovereignty and Rural Women’s Empowerment Project in Chalatenango. Description To contribute to the development of rural women through strengthening...
View ArticleMarch for Food Sovereignty: The right to choose food free of chemicals
On October 16, thousands gathered in the streets of San Salvador to recognize World Food Day and Rural Women’s Day. From Ahuachapan to Morazan, social organizations from all over the country came to...
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Hope for the Environment: Elections 2015
Yesterday, February 19th, the Environmental Alliance, a coalition of anti-mining, food sovereignty, and water protection organizing bodies, invited legislative candidates across all parties to take...
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Food and Water: Human Rights? Not yet.
As April comes to a close, so does a hotly debated issue. The amendment to Article 69, that would define food and water as human rights, failed in El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly. But not all hope...
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