Skip to content
  • EN
  • FR
  • ES
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Donate
Facebook X Instagram Vimeo Telegram
La Via Campesina – EN
  • TopicsExpand
    • Land, Water and Territories
    • Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants’ Seeds
    • Trade Markets and Income
    • Public Policies
    • Peasants’ Rights
    • Climate and Environmental Justice
    • Migrants and Waged Workers
    • Transnational Companies and Agribusiness
  • ArticulationsExpand
    • Youth Articulation
    • Women’s Articulation
    • Diversities
  • Publications
  • MultimediaExpand
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
  • CampaignsExpand
    • Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
    • Global Campaign for Peasant Seeds
    • Campaign to Stop Violence against Women
    • Campaign against Agrotoxics
    • Campaign for a Binding Treaty
search
  • EN
  • FR
  • ES
search
La Via Campesina – EN
Facebook X Instagram Vimeo Telegram
Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants' Seeds | International Day of Peasant Struggles - #17April | Regional Declarations | South America

Chile: V International Agroecology and Seeds Encounter

29 April 20246 June 2024

In the framework of the International Day of Peasant Struggles, the V International Seminar on Agroecology and Seeds took place in Chile on April 17th and 18th. This event was organized by the National Association of Rural and Indigenous Women (ANAMURI) and the IALAs (Sembradoras de Esperanzas).

The seminar, held at the Gabriela Mistral Education Museum in downtown Santiago, served as a platform for sharing information and research related to seeds, peasant agriculture, and the advancing risks of agribusiness on the continent. Topics included Seed Laws and the digitization of agriculture, known as Agriculture 4.0, which envisions the countryside without peasants, thereby posing setbacks in terms of rights, including the right to food and food sovereignty.

Despite the threats posed by agribusiness, which is seen as an extension of capitalism in rural areas, peasant organizations continue to develop strategies and tools of resistance. These include the Declaration of Peasant Rights, the establishment of new monitoring mechanisms, processes of agroecological political education, organizational strengthening, internationalism, and social and human mobilization. It is argued that the Latin American Agroecology Institutes (IALAs) play a central role in highlighting contradictions for a global understanding of the reality that needs transformation in favor of the common heritage of peoples and humanity.

The struggle for land, seeds, and food sovereignty involves collaborative efforts among peasant organizations, allies from rural and urban areas, all increasingly recognizing themselves as political actors fighting for workers’ rights.

International and national panelists included representatives from organizations such as CLOC and La Vía Campesina, as well as allied organizations like the ETC Group, Friends of the Earth International for Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC), Fensuagro from Colombia, Rural Federation for Production and Rooting in Argentina, Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) Brazil, National Peasant Indigenous Movement (MNCI) of Argentina, Institute of Agricultural Development (INDAP) and National Agriculture Research Institute (INIA) Chile, Urban Agriculture Movement (MAU), Popular Education for Health (EPES), Urban Gardens of Valparaíso. The event concluded with a seed exchange, enriching participants with the knowledge, principles, and wisdom of indigenous peoples and peasants regarding seed and earth care.

Delegates from ANAMURI and the IALA Sembradora de Esperanzas, in their 10 years of sowing, answered the call from various parts of the national territory, along with representatives of CLOC and La Vía Campesina Chile, as well as collectives, students, organizations, and urban agriculture movements from different regions of the country.

With conviction and hope, we turn our dreams into action and struggle!


This post is also available in Español and Français.

RELATED NEWS:

  1. Chile: Agrarian reform, rural women, seeds and memories
  2. Chile: Water contamination by pesticides, the impact of agro-export expansion.
  3. Chile: ANAMURI to hold #8M24 event with indigenous and peasant women who are rebuilding since the deadly fires
  4. Chile: ANAMURI denounces the WTO Ministerial, reiterates the call for an alternative trade framework
Post Tags: #17 April

Post navigation

Previous Previous
Tunisia: Million Rural Women stand in solidarity with the land struggles in Siliana
NextContinue
Spain: Call for Support for Family Farming for a Just Agroecological Transition
SUPPORT THE PEASANT MOVEMENT

LATEST NEWS FROM ARTICULATIONS

  • Voices from Dominican Republic: ‘Food Sovereignty is the Right to Life and the Right to Live Well.’13 May 2025
  • Kenyan Peasants League: GMOs and Hybrid Seeds Trap Peasant Women in a Cycle of Debt and Depression9 May 2025

LATEST STATEMENTS & PRESS RELEASES

  • Panama Protests: La Via Campesina Extends Solidarity to Social Movements, Denounces the State-led Repression21 May 2025
  • Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy, Now!16 May 2025
  • Peasants Belong on Farms, Not in Prisons. Release South Korean Peasant Leader Hyun Jin-hee Immediately!29 April 2025
Organizations
Countries
Peasants
Regions

GET INVOLVED

Donate to La Via Campesina
Subscribe to Our Newsletter

LVC POLICY ADVOCACY

  • FAO – CFS
  • Seed Treaty (ITPGRFA)
  • UN Decade of Family Farming
  • Food Systems for People
  • UN Human Rights Council

LVC Missions

  • Palestine Solidarity
  • Haiti Mission
  • Colombia Peace Process
  • Peasant Alerts
  • Global Solidarity Statements

Social networks

Facebook X Instagram Vimeo Telegram
  • Home
  • About Us
  • LVC Schools
  • Regions and Members
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
  • Search
  • Contact us
Scroll to top
  • Topics
    • Land, Water and Territories
    • Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants’ Seeds
    • Trade Markets and Income
    • Public Policies
    • Peasants’ Rights
    • Climate and Environmental Justice
    • Migrants and Waged Workers
    • Transnational Companies and Agribusiness
  • Articulations
    • Youth Articulation
    • Women’s Articulation
    • Diversities
  • Publications
  • Multimedia
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
  • Campaigns
    • Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
    • Global Campaign for Peasant Seeds
    • Campaign to Stop Violence against Women
    • Campaign against Agrotoxics
    • Campaign for a Binding Treaty