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South Korea: La Via Campesina Stands Firmly with Peasant Unions Mobilizing Against the President’s Anti-Democratic Dictatorial Declaration and Martial Law
6 December 2024
For the first time in 44 years, martial law has been invoked by a president who, by all indications, has lost popular support. The democracy of this nation has been nurtured by the blood and sacrifices of its people—particularly its peasant and rural communities. Yet Yoon Suk-yeol is ruthlessly trampling on that hard-earned democracy.
2024 | November Newswrap: Highlights from La Via Campesina member organizations around the world
5 December 2024
Women, constituting the majority of the peasant, indigenous, landless, pastoralist, fisherfolk, nomadic, gatherers and agricultural workers, play a fundamental role in Food Sovereignty and food security, and economy. They produce more than half of the world’s food production, and build climate resilience, conserve biodiversity and the provide essential care for families, communities and Mother Earth. However, they continue to experience the structural violence of patriarchy, capitalism and imperialism.
03 Dec: Peasant Agroecology guarantees Food Sovereignty and prioritizes the defense of life
3 December 2024
Today, December the 3rd, La Via Campesina continues its campaign to ban agrotoxics. The intense use of agrotoxics by the industrial agri-food system is one of the primary causes of biodiversity crisis facing the world today. The world’s pollinator and bee populations are declining at an alarming rate directly affecting the biological and cultural diversity that sustains all forms of life in the fields and cities. It is therefore imperative that on this day, we affirm to the world that Peasant Agroecology and Food Sovereignty are the urgent and necessary transformations if we want to sustain life.
Pakistan: Landless peasants resisting land grabbing for corporate farming projects under the Green Pakistan Initiative
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee and Anjuman Mazareen Punjab held a joint press conference to condemn the increasing land grabbing under the Pakistan Green Initiative for corporate farming projects. They demanded immediate and comprehensive agrarian reforms benefiting the peasants and the small farmers who are fighting for their survival and against land grabbing. Allied trade and labour unions, as well as civil society organizations, joined the press conference in solidarity.
For the Right to Life for Palestine, We Will Never Be Silent! Enough Violence!
24 November 2024
For justice, for dignity, and for the right to life of the Palestinian people, we, social movements, civil society organisations and our allies around the world, refuse to remain silent. Together, we demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire NOW and accountability for the war crimes of the Israeli occupation! Together, we must stand up for the right of the Palestinian people to self determination.
“Current climate agenda is nothing short of disastrous as false solutions are promoted as climate mitigation tools” – warns Via Campesina
22 November 2024
As COP29 unfolds in Azerbaijan, the world faces a defining moment in the climate struggle, with global temperatures shattering records, increasingly severe and frequent extreme weather events with profound economic and social repercussions. The current climate agenda is nothing short of disastrous. False solutions are promoted as climate mitigation tools but fail to address the root causes of the crisis. La Via Campesina and other social movements continue to affirm, food sovereignty, agroecology, and peasant rights as true solutions.
LVC Asia Women: United in solidarity to learn about shared struggles against capitalism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, and colonialism
21 November 2024
In September, following the 30th year of “globalizing the struggle and hope” women from 14 Asian countries gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, for the first La Via Campesina Asia Women’s Political School. Over five days, the delegates united in solidarity to learn about their shared struggles against capitalism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, and colonialism—interconnected forces that uniquely impact peasant women in their respective countries. The delegates were empowered by past and present knowledge of popular and peasant feminism as a crucial tool to address the ongoing violence and discrimination faced by women.
Paraguay: “We are no longer afraid and we fight against this oppressive system”
20 November 2024
The Organisation of Peasant and Indigenous Women in Paraguay celebrated 25 years of history and the construction of a popular, rural feminism and food sovereignty. The organisation is a powerful voice in the struggle for food sovereignty, against the advance of agro-toxins, equal rights and a life free of violence. In this interview, Alicia Amarilla shares the history, progress and challenges of the struggle.
Chile: Agrarian reform, rural women, seeds and memories
19 November 2024
On 28 July 1967, Chile’s official gazette published laws n°16.640 on Agrarian Reform and n°16.625 on Peasant Unionisation. Thus began an act that would revolutionise the countryside. Unfortunately, it was short-lived: the coup d’état and the dictatorship put an end to these ideas, leaving the word silent and forbidden. The current neoliberal rural development model, consolidated during the dictatorship the so-called agrarian counter-reform, has intensified new forms of dispossession, such as affecting the identity and diversity of the peasant world.
Dominican Republic: “All rights for all women”
18 November 2024
From 18 to 20 October, the National Confederation of Rural Women held its 9th National Congress at Dios Dirá, San Cristóbal, in Dominican Republic. This event brought together over 300 women delegates from 24 federations, representing 227 rural communities from different regions and provinces of the country. The main objective of the congress was the defense of rural women’s rights, the eradication of gender violence and the promotion of Food Sovereignty.
Paris: 32 perspectives, fragments of humanity, to celebrate the diversity of the peasants around the world
15 November 2024
The exhibition opens on November 21 at 2:00 PM at the Square of Saint-Jacques Tower. From the coffee fields of Honduras, to the vegetable gardens of Brazil and Mozambique, through the olive groves of Palestine, the rice fields of Bangladesh, the meadows of France, and the food plots of Indonesia, a wide variety of situations and production systems are juxtaposed along these grids.
Brazil: Popular agrarian reform and the massification of agroecology are central proposals of the MST to the G20
The Landless Rural Workers Movement met in the central region of Rio de Janeiro to discuss the proposals to the heads of state attending in the G20 Summit, from 18 and 19 November. Among the proposals, the materialisation of popular agrarian reform and the massification of agroecology stand out as central points to guarantee healthy food for the Brazilian population and to combat the climate crisis.