LVC Africa News (Harare, November 13, 2013) Seed diversity, created by peasants over centuries, is in danger of disappearing and the diversity of seeds that remain is increasingly threatened by… Read more →
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Climate Summit: Don’t turn farmers into ‘climate smart’ carbon traders!
Media release of La Vía Campesina | GRAIN | ETC Group 7 November 2013. Farmers produce food, not carbon. Yet, if some of the governments and corporate lobbies negotiating at… Read more →
African Farmers meet in Zimbabwe to give more strength to the struggle for seeds sovereignty
Media Advisory – La Via Campesina Harare, 06 November 2013 – More than 40 farmers from several African countries, members of La Via Campesina, together with allies, will meet in… Read more →
Gaining support for the peasant’s way – La Via Campesina at UN’s leading food security institutions
“Reforms at the level of international institutions like the CFS must be seized to advance the cause of peasants and family farmers. In truth no policy whether at the national… Read more →
FAO recognizes La Via Campesina’s crucial role as the major international small food producer’s organisation
La Via Campesina Press release (Rome, 4 October 2013) Today, during a meeting between La Via Campesina and FAO’s Director general Jose Graziano da Silva an agreement of cooperation was… Read more →
Movements Unite in Mali, Confronting Powerful Interests : “We are decolonizing Africa here”
Nyéléni, Mali – 19 November 2011 —The National Confederation of Peasant Organization’s (CNOP) agroecological training center stands at the crossroads of the West African countryside. Surrounded with rich Malian farmland… Read more →
#CFS43: Summary of Interventions made by LVC delegation at CFS Plenary in Rome
A delegation of peasants, representing La Via Campesina, took part in the CSM Forum, the Civil Society Mechanism for relations to the UN Committee on World Food Security, in Rome this… Read more →
CFS 43: Opening Statement by Elizabeth Mpfou
Elizabeth Mpfou, a small holder farmer and general coordinator of La Via Campesina, delivered the opening statement at the CFS 43 in Rome, on behalf of the Civil Society Mechanism for… Read more →
NFU Action alert: Trans Pacific Partnership input deadline coming soon
Action Alert: Email your input on TPP before June 30 deadline! The federal government wants your input on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) by June 30. You can send your message to the TPP consultation email address,… Read more →
Haitian peasants march against Monsanto Company for food and seed sovereignty
On June 4th about ten thousand Haitian peasants marched to protest US-based Monsanto Company’s ‘deadly gift’ of seed to the government of Haiti. The march was seven kilometers from Papaye… Read more →