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“Elizabeth”: A Powerful Documentary on a Peasant Leader’s Resistance
29 April 2025
The historic peasant leader celebrated her 100th birthday on February 13, 2025. To celebrate her centenary, De Olho nos Ruralistas has released the 2023 documentary Elizabeth to the public via its YouTube channel.
La Via Campesina’s Diversity Articulation Meets in Thailand | A Short Report
28 April 2025
Between April 24 and 29, peasant representatives from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe are gathering in Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, to take a firm step in consolidating the new Articulation of Diversities within La Via Campesina.
Brazil: MST Marks International Day of Peasants’ Struggles with Over 50 Demonstrations Nationwide
This year, between April 1 and 17, more than 50,000 people took part in 55 coordinated actions across the country—marches, vigils, rallies, occupations, and solidarity events—rallying under the slogan: “Occupy to Feed Brazil!”
Podcast: La Via Campesina’s News Wrap | Season IV – Episode #1
25 April 2025
The new season of La Via Campesina’s news podcast has arrived! From now on, we will release one episode every quarter, featuring news and updates on peasant struggles around the world.
Sri Lanka: Exit Harmful Debt Restructuring Agreements, Reform Laws to Align with UNDROP, MONLAR Tells Government
The economic reforms enforced through the 17th IMF program have transferred the burden of economic stabilization to the poorer sections of society through austerity measures.
Argentina: Building Food Sovereignty from a Feminist Economy
24 April 2025
Peasant food production systems are essentially collective, whether family or community-based, and they rely on the commons. This “commons” does not refer only to farm work: it is also linked to community structures of care, leisure, and social relations.
Farming Where the World Looks Away | A Note from Palestine
This violence is not incidental, it is structural. Palestinian farmers are not seen as individuals violating regulations, but as geographical obstacles to be removed.
With Global Solidarity, We Build the Path to Food Sovereignty: NFU Canada’s Statement for April 17
23 April 2025
Every day, and over many years, NFU members have been cultivating food sovereignty by: growing healthy and culturally appropriate food for communities; advocating for and supporting local- and regional-scale processing, storage, and distribution to bolster domestic markets.
“Move Away From Free Trade Paradigm, Strengthen Food Sovereignty”: ECVC tells European Union
The European Union must invest in food sovereignty everywhere by promoting policies geared towards the territorialisation of food production, supporting an agroecological transition, ensuring generational renewal and protecting farmers from future economic and ecological tensions.
La Via Campesina Delegation Visited Palestine in December 2024: Notes from their Daily Diaries [Part – 9]
22 April 2025
The attacks against Palestinian social movements have been going on for a long time, but over recent years they have worsened. In particular, there are fears that all the Palestinian civil society organisations will soon be deprived of bank accounts, to cut off any possible funding.
Food sovereignty is not possible without financial sovereignty, warn small-scale food producers and grassroots organisations
21 April 2025
Small-scale food producers, responsible for the bulk of the food consumed on the planet, face poverty, discrimination, shrinking landholdings, lack of access to credit, markets and infrastructures, and marginalisation from the spaces where public policies are defined.
Uganda : Peasant Organizations call upon the national government to frame laws in line with the Peasants’ Rights Declaration (UNDROP)
20 April 2025
The absence of peasants from the public eye is a result of the replacement of peasant agriculture with huge agribusiness firms and international trade.