World Social Forum January 23, Nairobi. La Via Campesina launched the African part of the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform today during the World Social Forum in Nairobi. The campaign has been developing in Latin American since 1996 and now the good fruits of the campaign can be harvested on African soil. One of the...
Conference Organised by Friends of the Earth International & Via Campesina Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are Europe's attempt to carve out free trade areas with mostly former colonies in the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific region (ACP). If signed up to, they would cause lasting damage to communities and their environment. EPAs threaten to bring family...
Conference The organisers: The Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform is a joint initiative of the international peasants movement La Vía Campesina, the international human rights organization FIAN, and the Land & Research and Action Network LRAN. The main objective of the campaign is to assist the existing peasant movements struggling for land and agrarian reform...
