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MST women denounce genocide in protest at the Israeli Embassy in Brasília
March 8, 2024: From the MST web site The Landless Women of the Federal District and Surrounding Area denounce, through this note, the genocidal practice that the State of…
30 YEARS
of LVC
After 30 years, La Via Campesina’s triumph lies in our unshakeable unity and our collective understanding that the battle continues against the neoliberal model, with each of us participating in this common struggle.
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Opinion: Small-scale farmers must control our food system
The Food Systems Summit in New York is supposed to come up with a global strategy to fight hunger and feed a rapidly growing world population. But it’s focused too much on the big agro-industry. Corporate interests are taking center stage and expanding their influence in the UN system to an alarming extent,…
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International Day of Peasant Struggles
On April 17th La Via Campesina reaffirmed its solidarity and its firm opposition to all violations of human and peasant rights. We continue our struggle against neo-colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism. We are unwaveringly committed to a just transition to peasant agroecology as a fundamental part of achieving climate justice. These are the fundamental principles we promote in our global struggle for Food Sovereignty.
Struggles for food sovereignty in the context of global hunger
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