The Committee on World Food Security (CFS): A new space for the food policies of the world, Opportunities and limitations

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Published on Friday, 02 November 2012 19:14

Title : The Committee on World Food Security (CFS): A new space for the food policies of the world, Opportunities and limitations

Year : 2012

Language: English (Available in French and Spanish)

Content: For many years the CFS was a space that was neglected by governments as it had no impact on the world governance of agriculture, which states considered as resting more in the hands of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Then in 2009 the committee was reformed. This booklet focuses on this reform and its consequences for civil society.

Edition: La Via Campesina notebooks

New publication: Stop the violence against women!

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Published on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:14

Via Campesina International, by means of this booklet, hopes to encourage debate and reflection concerning a subject that unfortunately is part of the daily life of many women all around the world: the phenomenon violence against women, systematically silenced, naturalized and made invisible by capitalist patriarchic society.

This material gives continuity to the Global Campaign to End Violence against Women that was launched by Via Campesina in 2008. This booklet will guide discussions in our meetings and educational processes related to this theme. It also serves as the foundation for our daily actions and struggles to end violence against women.

Understanding Free Trade through the KORUS FTA and the Necessity of Regional Economic Cooperation

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Published on Thursday, 06 September 2012 13:43

Year : 2012

Language: English 

Content: This booklet is based on the discussions between activists and academics during strategy meetings in Seoul and in Japan about economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific region. It focuses on the KORUS FTA which is a model of TPPA but also deals with the alternative model. 

Edition: Regional Secretariat of Southeast-East Asia Region La Via Campesina in collaboration with the International Strategy Center

New report. International Conference of Peasants and Farmers : Stop land grabbing!

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Published on Monday, 07 May 2012 07:23

Title :  International Conference of Peasants and Farmers : Stop land grabbing!

Year : 2012

Language: English (Available in French and Spanish)

Content: Report and conclusions of the international conference which took place in Mali, Selingué from 17 to 19 of November 2011

Edition: La Via Campesina notebooks

Combatting Monsanto

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Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 19:03

Title :  Combatting Monsanto. Grassroots resistance to the corporate power of agribusiness in the era of the ‘green economy’ and a changing climate

Year : 2012

Language: English (Available in French and Spanish)

Content: This report provides snapshots of frontline struggles against Monsanto and other biotech corporations pushing genetically modified (GM) crops. It shows that small-holder and organic farmers, local communities and social movements around the world are resisting and rejecting Monsanto, and the agro-industrial model that it represents.

Edition: FOEI, La Via Campesina, Combat Monsanto

Breaking the silence! No to violence against women!

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Published on Thursday, 05 January 2012 16:09

Title: Breaking the silence! No to violence against women!

Language: English (Available in French and Portuguese)

Content: This publication is a flyers bringing informations about the violence against women, its reasons and how to fight it.

Edition: La Via Campesina Africa

La Via Campesina: International Peasant's Voice

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Published on Saturday, 12 March 2011 17:09

Declaration of Rights of Peasants ‐ Women and Men

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Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 17:54

Title: Declaration of Rights of Peasants - Women and Men

Year: 2009

Language: English (Available in French and Spanish)

Content: Almost
 half
 of
 the
 people
 in
 the
 world
 are
 peasants.
 
 Even
 in
 the
 high‐tech
 world,

people 
eat 
food 
produced 
by 
peasants.
 Small‐scale 
agriculture 
is 
not 
just 
an 
economic

activity; 
it 
means 
life 
for
 many 
people.
 
The
se curity 
of 
the 
population 
depends 
on 
the 

well‐being
 of
 peasants
 and
 sustainable
 agriculture.
 To
 protect
 human
 life
 it
 is

important
 to
 respect,
 protect
 and
 fulfill
 the
 rights
 of
 the
 peasants.
 In
 reality,
 the

ongoing 
violations 
of 
peasants'
 rights 
threaten 
human
 life.

Edition: Via Campesina

The Challenges of The Multiple Crisis for African Small-Scale Farmers

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Published on Friday, 10 September 2010 16:47

Title: The Challenges of The Multiple Crisis for African Small-Scale Farmers

Year: 2010

Language: English (Available in French and Portuguese)

Content: This publication aims to be a tool for the leaders from the peasant and small farmer organizations in Africa. We hope it will help them reach their bases with political education, in the sense of raising awarensess and consciousness among them. What is present to us as an accident - the financial crisis, climate crisis, food crisis, among others - is not accident at all: this is a human-created situation, wich benefits a few and harms the majority.

Edition: Via Campesina Africa

Sustainable Peasant and Family Farm Agriculture Can Feed the World

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Published on Sunday, 04 April 2010 13:53

Title: Sustainable Peasant and Family Farm Agriculture Can Feed the World

Language: English (Available in French and Spanish)

Content: The 2008 world food price crisis, and more recent price hikes this year, have focused attention on the ability of the world food system to “feed the world.”

In La Via Campesina the global alliance of peasant and family farm organizations, we believe that agroecological food production by small farmers is the agricultural model best suited to meeting future food needs. The contemporary food crisis is not really a crisis of our ability to produce.

Edition: La Via Campesina