Today peasants, indigenous peoples, farm workers, land less peasants, fisher folk, consumers, women and young… Read more →
Media and Publications
Starved of Justice and Sovereignty, Social Movements Fight for Way Out of Global Food Crisis
By Heather Gies First published by Toward Freedom on September 29, 2017 Tackling problems underlying the… Read more →
La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | August 2017
The latest edition of La Via Campesina’s e-newsletter is now online! It is calling upon… Read more →
Canada: Farmers need more light, less heat, in tax proposal debate
The federal government is proposing changes to the Income Tax Act aimed at collecting revenue… Read more →
New Plant Breeding Techniques – 12 reasons to regulate these ‘New GMOs’ | By European Coordination Via Campesina
GMOs are “organisms, with the exception of human beings, in which the genetic material has… Read more →
September edition of Nyéléni Newsletter exposes the growing global threat of privatization and commodification of water
Water is an essential element for life and a crucial component of the human environment.… Read more →
Transforming Society as Capitalism Crumbles: Lessons from Brazil’s Peasant Movement
(This article originally appeared in InTheseTimes on 14 September 2017). by Rafael Soriano and Débora Nunes… Read more →
Agroecology is not just about how we work with the land, but also about how we work with each other as people: Peasant youth of La Via Campesina
Earlier this summer La Via Campesina celebrated its VIIth International Conference in Derio, Basque Country,… Read more →
Reclaiming the Food System: Experiences from the Instituto Agroecologico Latinoamericano (IALA), María Cano, Colombia
Industrial agriculture has been one of the key contributors to global warming and consequent climate… Read more →
The many colours of corn
The first thing that hit me was the colour. Different shades of red and yellow… Read more →