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Call for Artists for Food Sovereignty – Nyéléni Edition | Systemic Transformation is NOW or NEVER!
28 October 2024
The “Artists for Food Sovereignty – Nyéléni Edition” call invites a wide range of productions in various formats: songs, music videos, poems, paintings, photographs, illustrations, documentaries, podcasts, etc. After the submission deadline on January 31, 2025, the materials will be curated for a virtual exhibition in April 2025. These will also be showcased in a physical exhibition during the 3rd Global Nyéléni Forum.
La Via Campesina supports Colombian Government’s ICARRD+20 initiative for a Comprehensive and Popular Agrarian Reform
27 October 2024
La Via Campesina has backed the Colombian government’s initiative to host this significant international conference (ICARRD+20) originally proposed to the FAO 18 years ago.
African People’s Counter-COP denounces the COP system and demands climate justice for Global South be at the centre of the climate action
25 October 2024
The African People’s Counter COP (APCC) gathered in Saly, Senegal with over one hundred participants, from 21 countries, participating. Many African voices – excluded from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties – were captured and legitimized during the gathering. It denounced the COP system, highlighted the impacts of climate change on African communities and showcased viable alternatives that can lead to just climate solutions across Africa.
Global Family Farming Forum: LVC Declares, “No More Policies That Harm Family Farming! We Need a New International Trade Framework!”
24 October 2024
Throughout the week of the Global Family Farming Forum, we have seen that while we have made some progress in the first five years of the Decade, there is still much work to be done. We face many challenges in implementing the tools at our disposal, and we need governments to listen to us and commit to small-scale family farming. Family farming—both peasant and indigenous—is the only sustainable way to feed the world, combat climate change, enrich biodiversity, and ensure a future for young people that respects nature.
‘Peasant seed systems prove that innovation is not always digital’, says Paola Laini of La Via Campesina at the UNDFF Midterm Forum
Peasants and farmers, facing the raise of digitalisation, have started a process of internal reflection on how digitalisation is impacting their rights. The digital technologies currently serve to reinforce the power of corporations and aggravate the violation of peasants’ rights as peasants because the current legal and political frameworks are not suitable to orient digital technologies towards social and ecological justice. But the peasant seed systems have proved that innovation is not always digital and thus need to be protected from these technologies.
LVC brings UNDROP as a tool to implement the UNDFF to address the concerns on the main pillars of the global food system
22 October 2024
Today, October 16, we celebrate the world food day in the situation which is not good. According to the 2024 SOFI report there are 733 million hungry people globally, indicating the failure of the neoliberal food system and the increase in wars and conflicts. As one of the solutions, La Via Campesina brings UNDROP as a tool to implement the UNDFF to address the concerns on the main pillars of the global food system: the means of production, distribution and the model of production.
Global movements demand accountability for Israel’s weaponisation of food
Representatives from hundreds of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organisations worldwide have gathered in Rome to denounce the inaction and complicity of governments in fuelling the genocide and campaign of mass starvation that the State of Israel is currently imposing on the Palestinian people in Gaza. They are also condemning the illegal assaults on food sovereignty and the right to food of people across Palestine and in Lebanon.
Call to Action for the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum 2025: Systemic transformation is NOW or NEVER!
21 October 2024
The 1st Nyéléni Global Forum in Mali in 2007 brought together social movements united in the struggle for Food sovereignty. Since then, the Food sovereignty movement has grown in its fight for individual and collective rights, promoting agroecology as a way of life and amplifying the voice and perspectives of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, consumers and other groups in international policy making spaces. However, the world is currently going through profound and intertwined crises, which underscore the urgent need for systemic transformations that return power to the people.
Ending free trade agreements: CJEU ruling on EU-Morocco deal shows the way
18 October 2024
ECVC welcomes the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), dated 4 October 2024, concerning the free trade agreement between the EU and Morocco. This verdict once again underlines the harmful impacts of free trade for agricultural and fisheries products, particularly on the peasant economy and people living in rural areas. However, while ECVC is satisfied with the CJEU decision, current measures available to enforce it are not up to the challenge.
La Via Campesina to UNDFF Midterm Forum: “We refuse to let this be the decade of the extinction of peasant farmers – systemic transformation must happen now, or never!”
17 October 2024
This week, from the 14th to 18th October, La Via Campesina delegates are in Rome participating in the Global Family Farming Forum, an event on the Midway of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028). Morgan Ody, the General Coordinator of La Via Campesina spoke during the opening ceremony about the international peasant movement’s main demands for Food Sovereignty and the urgency for systemic transformation.
Indonesian Peasant Union condemns and protests against land grabbing: Violent evictions and criminalization of SPI Nagari Kapa peasants
16 October 2024
On Thursday, 10 October 2024 Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI) organised a mass action at Indonesian National Police Headquarters and Wilmar Group Office in Jarkata to condemn the recent repression by and unilateral actions of PT Permata Hijau Pasaman I (PHP I) Wilmar Group with the protection of the police, to illegally evict SPI Nagari Kapa peasants and destroy hundreds of hectares of their land and crops without notice.
Nyéléni 2025 : Join us for the launch of the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum!
15 October 2024
Tune in live on our social media channels to follow the launch of the 3rd Nyéléni Global forum. It is the time to strengthen our alliances and join forces with other sectors and all those who resist the oppression of the system. Systemic Transformation is NOW, or NEVER!