🌾Online Event- Farm Workers in South Africa and the Struggle for Justice 🌾

with Carmen Louw and Stephmarie Pekeur, hosted in collaboration between Women on Farms Project and the Farmers Without Borders

🗓️ *Tuesday, 14.04.2026 at 6pm (CEST/SAST)*

💻 *Online – Please register here:* https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/9vBMIT2RRoC3fywYyBAr3g

South Africa’s agricultural sector is deeply integrated into global markets, supplying supermarkets worldwide with products such as table grapes and wine. Yet many (women) farm workers and farm dwellers behind these exports face precarious working and living conditions. On many farms, ownership and power remain concentrated among white farm owners, and everyday relations are still characterised by reflect inequalities rooted in apartheid.

This online event explores the realities of life and work on South African farms. We will discuss power dynamics in the agricultural sector, the role of agribusiness, housing and living conditions, gendered experiences of farm labour, and how women workers navigate growing precarity. The conversation also highlights how farm workers and dwellers organize, resist, and raise their voices, while inviting reflection on the global food system and ongoing struggles for dignity, labour rights, and justice on farms.

*Carmen Louw* is the Women on Farms Project Co-Director and *Stephmarie Pekeur* is a Seasonal Farm Worker.

We are looking forward to share this space with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

#FarmersWithoutBorders #WomenOnFarms #FarmersUnion #LabourUnion #LabourRights #Farming #SouthAfrica #Grapevines #ExportAgriculture #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty #CarmenLouw #StephmariePekeur

🌾*Online Event- Syria: Rebuilding Agriculture for People*🌾

with Ansar Jasim and Lara, hosted by the Farmers Without Borders

🗓️*Tuesday, 10.03.2026 at 6pm (CET)*
💻 *Online - Please register here:* https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/ezVbx1p4RKWdzMbV3T7ewg

Across Syria, farmers and rural communities have long sustained land, seeds, and knowledge amid violence, dispossession, and ecological stress. Agroecological practices did not begin after the fall of the Assad regime; they have endured through local networks, everyday resistance, and deep care for land and livelihoods.

Today, a new political moment is opening space for farmers to gather, connect, learn, and speak openly about reclaiming people-centred agricultural futures. As Syria confronts war’s aftermath, displacement and return, and accelerating climate breakdown, this online event brings together perspectives rooted in lived experience and grassroots practice. It asks urgent questions about who controls land and food systems, whose knowledge counts, and how food sovereignty can underpin social justice and collective survival.

Ansar Jasim is a food sovereignty activist and Lara is a photographer and food sovereignty activist from Suwaida.

We are looking forward to share this evening with with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

#Syria #Agroecology #FarmersWithoutBorders #PeasantAgriculture #UniKassel #FoodSovereignity

🌾 Online Event: Thai MIgrant Farmworkers in Israeli Agriculture 17.02.26 🌾
with Matan Kaminer, hosted by Farmers Without Borders

🗓️17.02.26 6pm (CET)
💻 Online - Please register here: https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/LgeRnRiWSlShHBPGzQiX9w

For decades, Israel’s agriculture has relied on migrant workers, almost all from Thailand, who often work under harsh and exploitative conditions. Similarly to Palestinian workers in Israel, they face low wages, unsafe workplaces, and limited rights, while systemic injustices leave them vulnerable and overlooked. Thai migrant agricultural workers have been central to Israel’s project of controlling and colonizing Palestinian land and have also been vulnerable to violence, including rocket fire, as well as kidnapping, injury and death on October 7th, 2023.

This online event explores, on the one hand, how Israel came to rely on these migrant agricultural workers and, on the other hand, how these workers survive, resist, and organize in the face of ongoing exploitation and systemic injustice.

Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist and a longtime activist on the Israeli radical left. He is a lecturer at Queen Mary University London and a board member at Academia for Equality.

We are looking forward to share this evening with with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

@viacampesina_en @IGG_FAU @ufwupdates

#FarmersWithoutBorders #MigrantFarmworkers #Thailand #Israel #Palestine #Agriculture #WorkersRights #QueenMaryUniversity #AcademiaForEquality #MatanKaminer

🌾 Online Event: Sudan: Hunger under Siege 03.02.26 🌾
with Sarah Abbas, hosted by Farmers Without Borders

🗓️ Monday 03.02.26 19:00 / 7pm (CET)
💻 Online - Please register here: https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/s0tpoIPuTBeCkD3e_bPKDw

The fate of the Sudanese city El Fasher reveals how starvation is deliberately used as a weapon of war, not a tragic by-product, but a calculated strategy of conquest and control. This online event explores how sieges are imposed, who sustains the war economy from abroad, how global powers respond and the historic conditions and current policies that create and sustain mass hunger. We will also hear how communities organise, resist, and struggle to secure food under extreme conditions.

Sara Abbas is a researcher active in solidarity work with the Sudanese revolution and women's mutual aid groups confronting the suffering caused by the war.

We are happy to share this important evening with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

#Sudan #Hunger #Agroecology #HungerIsNotAWeapon #Famine #HumanRights #FarmersWithoutBorders