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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
PRESS RELEASE - European Farmers Coordination - Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos If hunger riots in 40 countries have drawn the attention of the public opinion, the food crisis is not a new phenomenon. After decades of deregulation of the European and international market, under the very ideological auspices of the WTO and the EU, the result is severe and dramatic. The current crisis shows that we cannot play with food, that market regulation at the international level as well as at the European level is indispensable for population’s food security. In that context, with a strong fall in food stocks, industrial agrofuels developed worldwide in the last 2 years, increasing pressure on the markets. The very interventionist decision of the EU to finance their development and to force the market to incorporate them, has increased the perspectives of competition with food production. |
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
Media advisory
An international farmers delegation of La Via Campesina will mobilise in Bonn, Germany, during the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Biosecurity (MOP4) and the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, COP9). Farmers leaders from Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia join actions, conferences and debates with the Coalition AktionsbundnisCOP9. |
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
Opinion paper – La Via Campesina
(Jakarta, 2 May 2008) As hunger riots erupt across the globe, world leaders such as Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are warning against the dangers of protectionism. According to Mr Ban, "More trade, not less, will get us out of the hole we're in."(1) |
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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Prices on the world market for cereals are rising. Wheat prices increased by 130% in the period between March 2007- March 2008. Rice prices increased by almost 80% in the period up to 2008. Maize prices increased by 35% between March 2007 and March 2008 (1). In countries that depend heavily on food imports some prices have gone up dramatically. Poor families see their food bills go up and can no longer afford to buy the minimum needed. In many countries cereal prices have doubled or tripled over the last year. Governments in these countries are under high pressure to make food available at reasonable prices. In Haiti the government already fell because of this issue and strong protests have taken place in other countries such as Cameroun, Egypt, and the Philippines… |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
Open Letter
To : Mr Jacques Diouf Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan, President of the G8, Mr. John W. Ashe, Permanent UN representative, Antigua and Barbuda's Permanent and Chairman of the Group of 77
From: Henry Saragih, International Coordinator for La Via Campesina
Jakarta, April 28, 2008
Concrete measures are needed to strengthen peasant and farmer-based food production; the food price crisis exposes the instability of liberalized agricultural markets.
Dear Mr. Diouf, Mr. Fukuda, and Mr. Ashe,
Our movement, La Via Campesina, consists of millions of small farmers and landless workers in more than 60 countries around the world. Although we are the ones producing food for our families and communities, many of us are hungry or living in poverty. Over the last months, the situation has worsened due to the sudden rise in food prices. We are also severely hit by the crisis because many of us do not have enough land to feed our families, and because most producers do not benefit from those high prices. Large traders, speculators, supermarkets and industrial farms are cashing in on and benefitting from this crisis. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
Sustainable family farming keeps diversity alive and cools down the earth! Stop the privatisation of natural resources!
Faced with climate change, the destruction of biodiversity and an energy crisis, transnational companies pretend they have the magic solutions to permit business as usual. They promote many « miracle-technologies » – GM plants and trees, synthetic germoplasm, nanotechnologies, Terminator, Transcontainer, agrofuels, « carbon traps » - that they claim will tackle the environmental crisis.
Hidden behind their paternalistis claims, however, is their wish to privatise all Earth’s resources: land, fresh water, germoplasm, oceans, knowledge and, soon, even the air that we breathe. |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
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a cofin is sent to Syngenta Headquarter in Basel during the April17th
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