Press Release Several delegates comprising women, men, youth, and representing peasants and migrant agricultural and rural workers from several regions of La Via Campesina, will carry messages of global solidarity and food sovereignty at the 2016 World Social Forum this August. The Forum, which is a collective call for a sustainable and inclusive world, will... Read more →
Montreal, Quebec, August 14, 2016 "We not only believe that another world is necessary, the members of La Vía Campesina are already building a better world." ~ Carlos Marentes, co-coordinator of the North America Region of LVC We, representatives of member organizations of La Vía Campesina from the North America Region (Union Paysanne from Quebec,... Read more →
The World Social Forum, held this month in Montreal, brought together thousands of activists, organizations and social movements working to build a sustainable and inclusive world, to learn, strategize and share knowledge with each other. With so many organizers, farmers, activists, students and change makers in one place, it was easy to see the collective... Read more →
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For peasants in Indonesia, two dates in April – the 17th and the 20th – hold massive significance in their persistent struggle for peasants’ rights. 17 April, the day of Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in 1996, when 19 peasants were killed while struggling to defend their land, is marked as the International Day of Peasant... Read more →
Youth Assembly Dates: 16 July and 17 July (until noon) Venue: Hotel-Seminario en Derio, Bizkaia (5 minutes from Loiu airport) The IVth International Youth Assembly of La Via Campesina will take place in Derio, Basque Country this week as part and will precede the VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina, set to begin from 19... Read more →
The Fifth International Women's Assembly of La Via Campesina will take place in Derio, Basque Country from 17-18 July. It precedes the VIIth International Conference of the peasant movement that is set to officially begin from the 19th July. Dates: 17 -18 July Venue: Hotel-Seminario en Derio, Bizkaia (5 minutes from Loiu airport)
Venue: Hotel-Seminario en Derio, Bizkaia (5 minutes from Loiu airport) The International Conference of La Via Campesina (LVC), held every four years, is the movement's highest decision-making forum - gathering representatives from member organisations of peasants, small and medium size producers, landless people, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers - from all over the world.... Read more →
September 10, The International Day of Action against WTO and FTAs Today, La Via Campesina is calling upon social movements and civil society organisations of the world to mobilise and organise our resistances against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), build solidarity alliances and prepare for a worldwide week of action... Read more →
On the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against Transnational corporations, we continue our struggle to end the corporate control of our food and the impunity of transnational corporations. We are raising the banner of Food Sovereignty and the urgency of the Popular Agrarian Reform based on peasant-agroecological production to guarantee healthy... Read more →
