Discover our podcasts collection that showcase the peasant voices resonating from the fields during the engaging spaces for discussion and development of alternatives at the 8th international conference of La Via Campesina.
South African peasant activists unveil land inequality struggles on global stage in Colombia
Two South African activists recently attended a conference in Bogotá where they pledged to broaden the participation of individuals, especially women, in the fight for food sovereignty. They denounced the land inequality and the outsized influence of South Africa’s commercial sector on food product pricing, thrusting these critical issues onto the global stage.
6th Women’s Assembly of La Via Campesina: “We Bring Lifeblood To This Movement”
While women took part in the establishment and building of La Via Campesina in different territories and international spaces, a collective struggle was necessary to get space and exposure, as well as to push feminism as a struggle that cannot be separated from the peasant struggle and the struggles of the peoples of the world.
Declaration of the 6th International Women’s Assembly of La Via Campesina
Throughout the history of La Via Campesina, there has been immense progress in the political participation of women. We have built and conquered several spaces with wisdom and daring. Nothing has been gifted to us. Gender parity in the political coordination of the movement is perhaps a particularity in an agrarian movement, but it is not the only demand we have.
Nyéléni Newsletter: How multilateral and other international platforms affect food sovereignty
In this issue of the Nyéléni newsletter, we describe how trends in multilateral and other international platforms are impacting food sovereignty in ways that will be decisive for the future of food and peoples’ self-determination. We unpack the different processes in which unfair exchanges are being perpetuated and opaque concepts promoted.
Declaration of Solidarity and Commitment to the rights of Migrants and Refugees around the world
As the situation of millions of migrants and their families worsens globally, La Via Campesina calls on States to ratify and implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants and their Families. The peasant movement rejects the proposed EU agreement on migration and reiterates its unwavering support to the struggle for rights and dignity of migrants.
Declaration of the 1st International Meeting of Diversities and Supporters | La Via Campesina
As people who embody these diversities, we do not ask to be tolerated; this is not about pity or charity. This is about knowing that a socially diverse movement for agroecology and food sovereignty is a stronger movement and that the liberation of everyone is intertwined with the liberation of our societies. Diversity is at the heart of Food Sovereignty, in all territories!
Peasant Youth Unveils Vision: 5th International Youth Assembly Declaration
Explore the transformative agenda set by the 5th International Assembly of La Vía Campesina’s Youth Articulation in Bogotá. From advocating for Palestinian solidarity to addressing global agricultural crises, the assembly delves into pressing issues like generational continuity, climate justice, and technology challenges.
Ending Violence Against Women in Southern and Eastern Africa
As part of the activities related to the ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’, eight LVC organizations in Southern and Eastern Africa promoted activities to reflect on the topic, from the perspective of peasant women.
VIIIth International Conference, La Via Campesina: Bogotá Declaration
We, the peasants, rural workers, landless, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, artisanal fisherfolk, forest dwellers, rural women, youth and diversities and other peoples who work in the countryside around the world and united within La Via Campesina, declare that “Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity!” towards a just and decent food system for all, recognizing peoples’ needs, respecting nature, putting people before profit and resisting corporate capture.
“Food sovereignty is to defend nature, to defend water, to defend our planet”
The 8th LVC International Conference is a space for critical reflection on the structural forces creating global crises, and the power of this moment to build connections between grassroots movements that are developing alternative worlds in the present. It presents an opportunity to deepen understanding of the contradictions and grassroots strategies of resistance.
Listening to the future: Children’s views on Food Sovereignty
La Via Campesina, recognizing the importance of engaging and facilitating parents participation, especially women, in the debates and decision-making spaces of the movement, is providing a childcare service during this 8th International Conference. A group of 15 children aged between 2 to 12 years old are being cared for while their parents participate in the conference proceedings.
‘Lee Kyung-hae’ and ‘DOWN! DOWN! WTO!’ echoed in Bogotá, Colombia
Honoring the memory of Lee Kyung-hae, who died opposing the World Trade Organization, and emphasizing the importance of expanding agroecology, Kim Jung-yeol, Internal Coordination Committee of La Via Campesina for Southeast and East Asia spoke on the climate crisis, food sovereignty, and women farmers.
Historical Challenges for Peasant Movements around the World
Joao Pedro Stedile provides an analysis of the historical contribution of the peasant movement in the last 30 years and it’s significance for the working class, peasantry and humanity. He also provides the future challenges facing the movement and the need to confront fascism and conservative media outlets.
Haitian peasant movements appeal for global solidarity amid escalating security crisis
In a distressing turn of events, Haiti is grappling with a deteriorating security situation, prompting peasant movements affiliated with La Via Campesina to issue a fervent call for robust international solidarity. They raise their collective voice at the 8th International Conference of La Via Campesina, in Bogotá, Colombia.
La Via Campesina Allies on the Struggle for Food Sovereignty
On the 4th of December, during the 8th International Conference, in Bogota, La Via Campesina’s allied organizations elaborated on the idea of food sovereignty as an encompassing struggle, explaining how the issues they take up and the battles they wage gain strength from the perspective provided by food sovereignty as a guiding principle and political horizon.
Via Campesina: peasants’ organizations meet in Colombia to discuss fight against hunger
Over 180 peasants’ organizations will meet in Bogota, Colombia’s capital city, to discuss and propose development and food production models that can be an alternative to agribusiness. Over 500 representatives of peasant movements from all over the world will come together to discuss and build food sovereignty to face the current global crisis.
Food Sovereignty from the perspective of La Via Campesina
Food sovereignty is the grassroots demand for a rights-based re-organization of the food system, grounded in gender equality, agroecology, and solidarity. The concept first proposed in 1996, has overtime been strengthened to deepen critical analyses of the obstacles and opportunities towards its construction.
Unity in Diversity: Women and Young Peasants Change the World
After six-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, La Via Campesina’s 8th International Conference ,filled with excitement, roared into life in Bogotá, Colombia. The conference opened on the 1st of December with Youth and women Assemblies. Men Against Patriarchy and Gender Diversities meetings were held for the first time.
Peasants from 81 countries around the world reflect on the past 30 years and look to the future
La Via Campesina opened its 8th International Conference on the 3rd of December in Bogotá, Colombia. This conference comes six years after the 7th Conference was held in Bilbao, Spain in 2017 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This will run for eight days from December, 1 to 8.
