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Southern and Eastern Africa

Secretariat for the Southern and Eastern Africa Region :

Offices of MVIWATA
P.O. Box 3220 Morogoro
Tel: 023 261 41 84
Fax: 023 261 41 84

Location : Bigwa Area Along old Dar Es Salaam Road off Junction to Matombo

Confédération Paysanne du Congo (COPACO/PRP)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Landless Peoples Movement (LPM)

South Africa

União Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC)

Mozambique

Zimbabwe Smallholder Farmer Forum (ZIMSOFF)

Zimbabwe

Latest News from Southern and Eastern Africa

Kenyan Peasants League: GMOs and Hybrid Seeds Trap Peasant Women in a Cycle of Debt and Depression

9 May 202515 May 2025

The fight for land justice in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and across the Global South is not just a local struggle – it is a global one

5 May 20256 May 2025

Mozambique: UNAC Celebrates the International Day of Peasant Struggles

30 April 202530 April 2025

Uganda : Peasant Organizations call upon the national government to frame laws in line with the Peasants’ Rights Declaration (UNDROP)

20 April 20254 May 2025

South African Land Issue: Southern and Eastern African La Via Campesina Denounces US Sanctions and Calls for Comprehensive Agrarian Reform

27 February 202528 February 2025

DRC Conflict: Southern and Eastern African La Via Campesina Calls for International Solidarity, Flags Attacks on Women and Girls

25 February 202520 March 2025

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Western and Central Africa

Plateforme Paysanne du Niger (PFPN)

Conseil National de Concertation et de Cooperation des Ruraux (CNCR)

Coordination Togolaise des Organisations Paysannes (CTOP)

Concertation Nationale des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs Agricoles du Congo (CNOP-Congo)

Latest News from Western and Central Africa Region

African Youth Participate in Formation Sessions in South Africa, Ethiopia, and Mauritius

9 January 20259 January 2025

African People’s Counter-COP denounces the COP system and demands climate justice for Global South be at the centre of the climate action

25 October 202425 October 2024

Peasant Youth in Africa Organize Collective Study at Nkrumah School, South Africa

10 October 202411 October 2024

The Peasant Women of La Via Campesina in Africa are saying NO to the WTO and the FTAs

17 September 202417 September 2024

Republic of Congo: Small-scale Congolese Producers Leading the Agroecological Movement

27 August 202427 August 2024

Inhumane sanctions on Niger lead to an acute shortage of essential items and food: PFPN

24 May 20247 June 2024

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South Asia

Nepal National Peasants Women’s Association

Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha (KRRS)

Kerala Coconut Farmers Association

Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangham (Tamil Nadu Farmers Association)

Latest News from South Asia

Asia: Conference on Agroecology and Seeds Highlights Diverse Experiences in Peasant Seed Sovereignty

22 May 202522 May 2025

Asia: Peasant Unions Mobilize on May Day, Call for Contract Regularization, Higher Wages, and Land Reform

2 May 202515 May 2025

Sri Lanka: Exit Harmful Debt Restructuring Agreements, Reform Laws to Align with UNDROP, MONLAR Tells Government

25 April 202525 April 2025

Pakistan: Peasant Unions to Mobilize on April 13 Against Corporate Farming, Land Grabs, and for Fair Crop Prices

11 April 202516 April 2025

India: On Price Support for Farmers, Mainstream Economic Opinion Shifts from ‘Why’ to ‘How’

22 January 20256 February 2025

India: Peasant Unions carry out nationwide campaign demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price

8 January 202529 January 2025

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East and South East Asia

Nouminren (Japan Family Farmers Movement)

Vietnam National Farmers Union (VNFU)

Borneo Indigenous Peoples Movement (PANNGGO)

Korean Peasant League (KPL)

Latest News from East and South East Asia

Asia: Conference on Agroecology and Seeds Highlights Diverse Experiences in Peasant Seed Sovereignty

22 May 202522 May 2025

Asia: Peasant Unions Mobilize on May Day, Call for Contract Regularization, Higher Wages, and Land Reform

2 May 202515 May 2025

Peasants Belong on Farms, Not in Prisons. Release South Korean Peasant Leader Hyun Jin-hee Immediately!

29 April 20251 May 2025

South Korea: Peasant Unions Sound Alarm Over GM Potato Imports and U.S. Trade Pressure

18 April 202522 April 2025

South Korea: 123 Days of Martial Law End with the President’s Removal—A Victory for the People

8 April 202511 April 2025

Japan: Peasant Movements and Consumer Groups Plan Tractor Rally on March 30 to Highlight the Agrarian Crisis

30 March 20254 April 2025

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Europe

Norske bonde-og Smabrukarlag (NBS)

Associazione Italiana per l’Agricoltura Biologica (AIAB)

Uniterre

Nordbruk

Latest News from Europe

ECVC denounces the use of starvation as a weapon of genocide against Palestinian people and complicity of Europe

20 May 202522 May 2025

EU’s 2027 Common Agricultural Policy Reforms: ECVC Pushes for Food Sovereignty

14 May 202521 May 2025

The Challenges Digitalisation Brings to Peasant Agroecology: An ECVC perspective

8 May 20258 May 2025

“Move Away From Free Trade Paradigm, Strengthen Food Sovereignty”: ECVC tells European Union

23 April 20251 May 2025

Portugal: Reorient Agricultural Policy Toward Domestic Production and Food Sovereignty in Response to US Tariffs, CNA Urges Government

11 April 202511 April 2025

La Vía Campesina stands in solidarity with Via Campagnola and the Confédération Paysanne after the assassination of peasant Pierre Alessandri

21 March 202528 March 2025

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North America

Rural Coalition (RC)

National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)

National Farmers Union (NFU)

Union Paysanne

Latest News from North America Region

With Global Solidarity, We Build the Path to Food Sovereignty: NFU Canada’s Statement for April 17

23 April 202523 April 2025

“April 17, a day to consider our connection to food and to those who struggle to feed us” | Family Farm Defenders, USA

19 April 20254 May 2025

Supply Management is a solid anchor in the tariff storm: National Farmers’ Union, Canada

11 March 202521 March 2025

Canada: Bunge-Viterra merger approval highlights myth of competition and need for effective regulation, says NFU

24 January 202518 February 2025

Canada: NFU Joins Allies in the Global Day of Action against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements

11 September 202412 September 2024

10 September | Day of Action Against the WTO and FTAs: Statement of Organizations in Canada and the US

10 September 202410 September 2024

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Central America

Asociación Campesina de Panamá Oeste (ACPO)

Pueblos Originarios

Asociación Campesina para el Desarrollo de El Salvador (ACADESE)

Asociación de Mujeres Campesinas (Andemuca)

Latest News from Central America

Panama Protests: La Via Campesina Extends Solidarity to Social Movements, Denounces the State-led Repression

21 May 202522 May 2025

Honduras: Peasant Movements Defend the Right of the People to Use, Save, and Exchange their seeds, denounce the ‘Monsanto Law’

15 May 202523 May 2025

El Salvador: Governmental Neglect of Agriculture is Driving the Country Toward a Food Crisis

2 May 202516 May 2025

Honduras: Without us, there is no present or future. Without us, there is no democracy!

10 March 202521 March 2025

Podcast: Peasant Agroecology Cools Down the Planet

21 August 202421 August 2024

CLOC: VI Continental School of Women Extends Solidarity to the Haitian People

7 June 202420 June 2024

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South America

Red de Mujeres Rurales de Uruguay (RMRU)

Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas de Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa” (FNMCB)

Confederación Sindical Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB)

Confederación sindical de comunidades interculturales de Bolivia

Latest News from the Region

Brazil: MST kicks off the 5th National Agrarian Reform Fair. 300,000 people expected to turn out

9 May 202521 May 2025

Brazil: MST Marks International Day of Peasants’ Struggles with Over 50 Demonstrations Nationwide

28 April 20251 May 2025

Argentina: Building Food Sovereignty from a Feminist Economy

24 April 202528 April 2025

Brazil: The Struggle for Agrarian Reform 29 Years after the Eldorado do Carajás Massacre

15 April 202522 April 2025

Paraguay: Peasants and Indigenous Communities March for Agrarian Reform Law

14 April 202517 April 2025

Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) Highlights Agrarian Reform as a Solution to end hunger

7 April 202515 April 2025

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Arab and North Africa (ArNA)

Union Of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

Palestine

Fédération Nationale du Secteur Agricole (FNSA)

Morocco

Million Rural Women (MRW)

Tunisia

Latest News from the Arab and North Africa Region

Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy, Now!

16 May 202521 May 2025

Tunisia’s agricultural crisis stems from a governance model that converts sovereignty into dependency: MRWL

12 May 202516 May 2025

Tunisia: Migration is an Act of Resistance – Full Rights for Migrant Peoples!

4 May 202512 May 2025

La Via Campesina Delegation Visited Palestine in December 2024: Notes from their Daily Diaries [Part – 9]

22 April 202522 April 2025

SIGN THE PETITION: For Solidarity with Farmers and Rural Communities in Occupied Palestine | ARNA Via Campesina

16 April 202516 April 2025

Morocco: The Struggle for the Respect of the Right to Strike in the Agricultural Sector

7 April 20258 April 2025

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The Caribbean

Movimiento de Campesinos Trabajadores “Las Comunidades Unidas” (MCCU )

Federación de Campesinos Independientes Mamá Tingó (FECAIMAT )

Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños (ANAP)

Mouvman Peyizan Nasyonal Kongre Papay (MPNKP)

Latest News from the Caribbean Region

Voices from Dominican Republic: ‘Food Sovereignty is the Right to Life and the Right to Live Well.’

13 May 202515 May 2025

Dominican Republic: “Persist, resist, transform for Women’s Rights”

17 March 202518 March 2025

Haiti: Women call against domination, discrimination and violence

16 March 202518 March 2025

Haiti: Devastating floods leave a tragic toll on lives and livelihoods

20 December 202417 January 2025

Urgent Reassessment of US and UN Involvement in Haiti’s Crisis Needed: An Open Letter

4 October 20244 October 2024

Dominican Republic: XIII Peralta Verde 2024 Youth Camp echoes calls to defend peasants’ rights

28 August 202428 August 2024

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