Writing from Honduras, Miriam, the coordinator of OFRANEH, told about the first victory in the Garífuna's most recent campaign to win back their legal and ancestral lands lost to mega-development projects.

The best way for Palestinians to avoid expulsion from their lands and retain their homes is to intensively work the land.

From a small village in the central plateau to forgotten towns in the north and south, grassroots organizers are demonstrating that their solutions are the way towards a new Haiti.

These farmers are focused principally on building food sovereignty, the right of a people to define their own food and agricultural systems, premised on growing domestically for domestic consumption.

We are peasant planters, that's all we do. Since foreign rice has invaded Haiti, we plant our rice but we can't sell it. Please, give us seeds, give us material. Don't give us rice -- it competes against ours.

"Fighting hybrid and GMO seeds is critical to save our diversity and our agriculture," President Jean-Baptiste said in an interview in February. "The policy we need... is food sovereignty."

Instead of spending their money revitalizing the agricultural sector, NGO programs round up small-scale farmers to build roads and clean out sewage systems in return for food vouchers.