Organizations · Rights & Justice

Pioneering organizations in Rights & Justice.

A selection of groups doing meaningful work in this space — gathered for easy discovery, with links to their work and writing.

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USA

Center for Food Safety

The Center for Food Safety was founded in 1997 for the purpose of challenging harmful food production technologies and supporting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture.

Canada

David Suzuki Foundation

Founded in 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation is a Canadian, bilingual non-profit organization headquartered in Vancouver, with offices in Toronto and Montreal. Through evidence-based research, education and policy analysis, they work to conserve and protect the natural environment, and help create a sustainable Canada. They regularly collaborate with non-profit and community organizations, all levels of government, businesses and individuals.

India

Down To Earth

Down To Earth was started by environmentalist Anil Kumar Agarwal, who had a dream and commitment to make people aware of their challenges and believed that they could be the change in the world.

International

Global Alliance For The Future Of Food

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food is a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working together and with others to transform global food systems now and for future generations. They are a unique coalition where individual foundations are able to amplify their work, act together, and take a position on pressing global issues without compromising their own unique missions.

International

GRAIN

GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

Nigeria

Health of Mother Earth

An ecological think tank organisation advocating for environmental/climate justice and food sovereignty in Nigeria and Africa at large.

USA

Land Peace Foundation

The Land Peace Foundation is dedicated to the protection of Indigenous rights and the preservation of the Indigenous Way of Life. Their work is centered on the protection and preservation of Indigenous land, water, religious and spiritual rights, and developing climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies that benefit Indigenous Peoples.

India

Navdanya

Navdanya is an Indian-based non-governmental organisation which promotes biodiversity conservation, biodiversity, organic farming, the rights of farmers, and the process of seed saving.

Italy

Navdanya International

Navdanya International was founded in Italy in 2011 to strengthen Navdanya’s global outreach in its mission to protect Nature, Earth’s biodiversity and people’s rights to seed and food and protect farmers’ rights to save, exchange and evolve seeds, as well as to protect indigenous knowledge and culture.

Pakistan

Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek

Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) is a mass-based alliance of small and landless farmers including women farmers. PKMT was formed in 2008 and was a result of a series of discussions amongst small and landless farmers, social and political activists who felt that an organized platform was critical for small and landless farmers to voice their demands based on social and economic constraints that they faced.

Pakistan

PQNK / Pedaver

A team of professional entrepreneurs and inspirational leaders based in Pakistan making a difference in farming, agribusiness and value chains.

Pakistan

Roots For Equity

The organization works with the most vulnerable, marginalized communities that include small and landless farmers, women and religious minorities in the rural and urban sector. The inequities in society are a result of the oppression and exploitative forces of feudalism, imperialist corporate hegemony often termed as globalization, and patriarchy.

USA

The Consilience Project

The Consilience Project publishes novel research at the leading edges of global risk mitigation, governance design and culture. Their content explores the key challenges and existential threats facing humanity, and the underlying problems with current approaches for addressing them.

Kenya

The Green Belt Movement

The Green Belt Movement (GBM) is an environmental organization that empowers communities, particularly women, to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods.

Italy

World Farmers’ Organisation

The World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) is a member-based association, bringing together national farmers’ organizations and agricultural cooperatives from all over the world.