Via Campesina Africa, WoMin and Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) Press Release (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, August 18, 2014) – Women and Mining (WoMin), Via Campesina Africa and Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) contributed… Read more →
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“NO to ProSavana Campaign”: Mozambicans seek regional solidarity
(Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, August 16, 2014) UNAC, the Mozambique Union of Farmers, a member of La Via Campesina regionalises its “NO To ProSavana” campaign. The ProSavana, a mega agri-business project, is… Read more →
Hungry for Land. Small farmers feed the world- with less than a quarter of all farmland
GRAIN/La Via Campesina media release Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small farmers control the largest share of the world’s agricultural land. When the director general of the United… Read more →
Yet another UN report calls for support for peasant farming and agroecology: it’s time for action
Media release of La Via Campesina ∕ Grain ∕ ETC (Harare, 23 September 2013) La Vía Campesina, GRAIN and ETC welcome a new UNCTAD report which states that farming in… Read more →
La Via Campesina press spokespersons for Durban
The international peasant’s movement La Via Campesina and its South African member, the Landless Peoples Movement, are in Durban to make the voice of small-scale farmers and rural people to… Read more →
March 8: Special Report on the International Women´s Day
By RadioMundo real : Download: MP3 (6.6 Mb) March 8th is considered as a day of feminist struggle in the entire world. Thousands of women from all around the globe mobilize… Read more →
Justice and Solidarity for Elizabeth Ibrahim Ekaru: Stop Killing us!
(Bagnolet, January 20, 2022) La Via Campesina – an international movement that brings together millions of peasants, small and medium farmers, landless, rural youth and women, indigenous people, migrants and… Read more →
India: Peasant Agroecological practices (ZBNF) are advancing the struggle for Food Sovereignty
GT Sujatha and her husband M Jagadish run a four-acre farm that is ten years old, just shy of the Tamil Nadu border in Karnataka’s Gottigehalli village. A decade ago,… Read more →
Peasant Women Feed the World | Real Food Media Podcast
The global peasant leader and food sovereignty activist Elizabeth Mpofu speaks to us about growing up in a farming family in Zimbabwe, practising climate resilient agriculture, and how rural women… Read more →
Press Release: Peasants’ Rights Declaration presented before the UN General Assembly
New York – October 26, 2018 – The “UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas” was presented in the UN headquarters to the… Read more →