First published by Fair World Project on 09/10/2018 Elizabeth Mpofu Food sovereignty is a feminist issue. Food production, harmonious social relations and balance with nature is the fabric of life… Read more →
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Farmers mobilize in Brussels: “Reclaiming peasants’ rights over our own seeds”
Press Release – European Coordination Via Campesina (Brussels, 20 January 2014) At the start of the year devoted to family farming, which is being called on by the UN to… Read more →
IV International Women’s Assembly for the construction of a peasant-based and popular feminism
News from La Via Campesina (Jakarta, June 7, 2013) Cheers of “Hooray for peasant women! We are the mothers of food sovereignty!” launched the IV Women’s Assembly of La Vía… Read more →
Farmers Condemn the Durban Platform: Sustainable peasant agriculture is the genuine solution to climate change
La Via Campesina press release on Durban (Jakarta, 16 December 2011) La Via Campesina, the global movement of peasants, small-scale and agricultural family farmers, denounces the attempts of the largest… Read more →
Topara Demo field: a successful example of agroecology in Zimbabwe
(Topora, 14 June, 2011) – In Topora, a village of Masvingo province in Zimbabwe, farmers are proud of being one of the successful examples of agroecology practice in the country.… Read more →
Peasants from 81 countries around the world reflect on the past 30 years and look to the future
La Via Campesina opened its 8th International Conference on the 3rd of December in Bogotá, Colombia. This conference comes six years after the 7th Conference was held in Bilbao, Spain in 2017 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This will run for eight days from December, 1 to 8.
#8M2022 | Global Call to Action | By Sowing Food Sovereignty, We Harvest Rights and a Dignified Life!
#8M2022 Bagnolet, 23 February 2022: On March 8, 2022–International Working Women’s Day—we salute the historic struggles of organized working women in the countryside and in cities for their rights and… Read more →
UN Food Systems Summit: Here is why we are boycotting it
In September this year, the United Nations will host a Global Food Systems Summit in New York. The organisers of this summit are pitching it as a crucial debate of… Read more →
Keeping the Struggles of Peasant Women Alive
Food sovereignty is a feminist issue. Food production, harmonious social relations and balance with nature is the fabric of life that is entwined with and embodied in women. The onset… Read more →
10 September Mobilisations: Highlights from around the world
As part of the International Day of Action Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements, members and allies of La Via Campesina and its allies organised several demonstrations, seminars and media… Read more →