Food sovereignty remains our answer to the food crisis. Now more than ever our communities and countries need to focus on agroecological food production.
Call for Solidarity with French Social Movements! Stop Police Violence NOW!
La Via Campesina calls for international solidarity for the french social movement, against police violence and the authoritarian drift of the French government. We call for international mediation to restore social dialogue.
Palestinian Land Day: Struggle for Land, Freedom and National Dignity
During the past year, the occupation established 25 settlements and 10 colonial outposts, confiscating an area of land estimated at 1,280 dunums. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, since the beginning of this year, the occupation established two colonial outposts.
Indonesia: Rice Import Plan 2023 Threatens Peasants and Food Sovereignty
Indonesia’s food procurement agency (Bulog) plans to import 2 million tonnes of rice by December this year, with the first phase seeing the import of 500,000 tonnes. Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) has denounced the move.
Civil society denounce leaked joint instrument on EU-Mercosur deal as blatant greenwashing
Documents leaked from a confidential source reveal that the EU-Mercosur deal’s proposed annex, supposedly intended to safeguard the environment, climate and human rights, does nothing to achieve this.
Publication | “Women Peasant are Women: Understanding violence against rural women in Eastern and Southern Africa”
UNAC and La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa, on March 17, in Maputo, launched the publication “Women Peasant are Women: Understanding violence against rural women in Eastern and Southern Africa”.
France: Stop the criminalization of peasants who fight against water grabbing mega-basins
For the past six years, the struggle against mega-basins has brought together environmentalist, trade union and peasant organizations, such as La Confédération Paysanne, in mobilizations alongside hundreds of activists for a fair distribution of this vital commons.
Peasants to speak about the challenges of implementing UNDROP at the III World Forum on Human Rights
At the III World Forum on Human Rights 2023, in Argentina, a panel will present on the challenges of implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas.
Çiftçi-Sen in solidarity with farmers affected by the earthquake in southern Türkiye
ÇİFTÇİ-SEN distributed animal feed in Antakya, Defne and Samandağ villages which suffered earthquake damage, to prevent animals from being sold because of lack of feed.
La Via Campesina @ the UN Human Rights Council: “Address the food crisis, move towards food sovereignty, implement UNDROP!”
Governments should take immediate actions to address the current food crisis and move towards food sovereignty, and also implement the UNDROP.