17 April 2015: International Day of Peasant and Farmer Struggle against Transnational Companies and Free Trade Agreements (Zimbabwe, Harare, March 30, 2015) La Via Campesina declared April 17th as the International Day of Peasant Struggle in order to highlight the struggle and to denounce the criminalization of protests. Peasant and farmers are persecuted and suffer violence... Read more →
Press Release—La Via Campesina (Zimbabwe, Harare, April 17, 2015) Today thousands of women and men farmers of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina mobilize worldwide against Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) which affect peasant and small-scale agriculture and national food sovereignty. Since April 17, 1996 La Via Campesina celebrates this day... Read more →
This mid of April will be marked with the peasant activities for the commemoration of 17th of April of International Day of Peasant Struggle. Members of Via Campesina world wide have reported their plan of action for that commemoration. As it has been released on the early of this month, for this year commemoration La... Read more →
South Korea, Wonju, April 20, 2015) La Via Campesina regional South East Asia and East Asia met with Korean Peasant League (KPL) and Korean Women Peasant Association (KWPA) members in Wonju, Gangwon Province, South Korea. Gangwon Province contains some of the country’s most impressive mountain and national parks, including Sorak-san and Odae-san National Parks. The... Read more →
Article by Solidarity Sweden – Latin America 2015 is a year of big—and perhaps irreversible—changes due to the multiple processes of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) around the world. These deals are being concretized without most people understanding what they imply and how they affect citizens all over the world. Therefore, as April 17th, marks the... Read more →
Ramallah: the Union of Agricultural Work Committees concluded its participation in" Civil Society Consultation with the Food and Agriculture Organization in the Near East and North Africa" conference, which was held in Beirut on 7th April2016. The UAWC's international Media coordinator, Hiba Al-Jibeihi, indicated that the conference discussed FAO's policies and initiatives in Livestock Contribution to... Read more →
While Friday, April 15th is marked by many street protests all over the country, at Brasilia the mobilization to fight is permanent. Until the afternoon of the 5th day of the occupation at the National Camp for Democracy and against the Coup, more than 3.5 thousand people already shared the daily routine at the Mané... Read more →
Press Release: La Via Campesina (Harare, 15 April 2016): On April 17, The International Day of Peasant’s Struggle - millions of peasants and their allies – women and men – around the world are uniting in action to commemorate the massacre of 19 landless farmers in 1996in Brazil and to continue the struggle for land... Read more →
Press Release The Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) will be staging a high profile direct action in central London at 4pm on Sunday 17th April to highlight the continued sell off of publicly owned farmland and council housing under the Government’s austerity programme. The action is taking place as part of La Via Campesina’s ‘International day of Agrarian... Read more →
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance calls for mobilizations for food sovereignty and food justice that put food producers - farmers, workers, urban gardeners, fishermen - back in control of their land and their food. April 17th is an important day in the struggle for food sovereignty. Twenty years ago,19 members of the Landless Workers Movement... Read more →
