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Member Organisations of La Via Campesina (Updated 2024)
Currently, La Via Campesina comprises 180* local and national organizations in 81 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, ArNA* and the Americas. Altogether, it represents about 200 million small-scale food producers. Around the world, La Via Campesina has more than 70 schools and training processes based…
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Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening?
(This article co-authored by Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink first appeared on The Guardian on 23rd September 2021) Thursday’s UN food summit proposes to help solve the world’s nutrition crisis, with 800 million people going hungry and 1.9 billion labelled obese, by better aligning food systems with development goals. But…
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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.
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