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Monday, 19 April 2010 22:49 |
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:39 |
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Press release
(Cochabamba, April 21 2010) The international peasant movement La Via Campesina held a press conference on April 21 at the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The Peoples’ Conference is being held from April 19 thru 22, and was organized by the Bolivian government in order to build an at agenda to combat climate change.
La Via Campesina has a delegation of 300 peasants from 20 countries at the conference, who are there to present sustainable, peasant agriculture as a solution to halt climate change. According to Henry Saragih, General Coordinator of La Via Campesina who is a peasant from the Indonesian Peasant Union, La Via Campesina has been following the issue of climate change since December 2007 at the UN climate talks in Bali. “The governments are not implementing real solutions to this crisis,” said Saragih. “La Via Campesina rejects the false solutions to climate change being proposed by most governments, and demands a change in the economic system.”
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 12:09 |
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Hinche, Haiti– An estimated 10,000 peasants gathered for a massive march in Central Haiti on June 4, 2010, to protest what has been described as “the next earthquake for Haiti” – a donation of 475 tons of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds by the US-based agribusiness giant Monsanto, in partnership with USAID. While this move comes at a time of dire need in Haiti, many feel it will undermine rather than bolster the country’s food security.
According to Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, leader of the Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) and spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papaye (MPNKP), the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti is "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on biodiversity, on Creole seeds... and on what is left our environment in Haiti."
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 12:10 |
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European Coordination Via Campesina
Press Release
Brussels, May 31st , 2010
Last night Israeli army commandos stormed an international humanitarian fleet on its way to Gaza to deliver medicines, medical equipment, building materials and food. The people of Gaza lack these materials due to the blockade imposed by the state of Israel. Civilians were killed and others wounded.
The attack occurred in international waters. It is therefore in terms of law, an act of piracy.
The European Coordination Via Campesina is shocked and outraged. It asks that Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice - President of the European Commission, acts without delay and as representative of the EU
- Condemns this violation of international law
- Provides humanitarian assistance to participants in the flotilla
- Calls for the urgent establishment of an international commission of inquiry into the attack
- Suspends trade agreements between the EU and Israel
- Acts to lift the blockade of Gaza
The European Coordination Via Campesina, an organization of European farmers, is in solidarity with the thousands of farmers whose lands are occupied in Gaza and the West Bank.
Rue de la Sablonnière 18 – 1000 Bruxelles – tel +32 2 217 31 12- info@eurovia.org – www.eurovia.org
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:24 |
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Press release - European Milk Board and European Coordination Via Campesina
The report of the High Level Group on Milk (HLGM) that will be discussed today by the European Council of Agriculture Ministers cannot solve the milk crisis. European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) and European Milk Board (EMB) make one thing clear at their demonstration: fair prices for producers and supply management are needed. Representatives of development and environmental NGOs such as Oxfam Solidarity Belgique, Friends of the Earth Europe, Wervel, SOS Faim support their demands for fair prices for milk producers from North and South and a sustainable production.
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