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2024 | May Newswrap: Updates from Member Organizations Worldwide
4 June 2024
In the Arab Region and North Africa (ARNA), La Via Campesina…
La Via Campesina: Climate Catastrophes require urgent global attention and response! Enough of False Promises and False Solutions!
3 June 2024
Bagnolet, 03 June 2024: Faced with an unprecedented climate and environmental…
Landless Women Building Free Territories: 40 Years of Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
First published by Capire on May 28, 2024 Lucineia Miranda de…
‘Recognize Gaza as a famine zone’ La Via Campesina issues Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People
31 May 2024
We urgently call upon the international community to recognize the dire situation in Gaza as a famine zone.
The ongoing siege and the strategic use of starvation by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war have pushed Gaza to the brink of a humanitarian disaster.
ECVC recommendations on Agriculture and Food Chain Observatory
European Coordination Via Campesina congratulates the Commission for the setting up of an EU Agriculture and Food Chain Observatory. This launch offers a concrete response to the need to ensure transparency on prices, costs and margins and will provide different actors of the chain and policy makers with a solid common base of knowledge.
UAWC and Allies issue Appeal to declare Gaza a famine-stricken area
27 May 2024
Full text of the appeal from Palestinian Civil Society is reproduced…
Inhumane sanctions on Niger lead to an acute shortage of essential items and food: PFPN
24 May 2024
A wave of grassroots mobilizations for national sovereignty has been happening…
Brazil: MST reaches out to families affected by Rio Grande do Sul floods. Urges international support
23 May 2024
Since the onset of the flood in Rio Grande do Sul,…
Italy: GMOs Gaining Entry with ‘No Public Discussion, No Serious Risk Assessment’, warns ARI
21 May 2024
Imagining that rice consumers will be happy to buy a box of Arborio with “Ris8imo” is currently a simple illusion; the vast majority of Italians do not want to eat GMOs. The trick of renaming NGT products as “TEA” (Assisted Evolution Techniques) shows contempt for the intelligence of this country’s consumers.
BRAZIL: MST Postpones National Congress to help Rebuild Rio Grande do Sul
20 May 2024
In a letter issued on May 17, 2024, the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement in Brazil — Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) — announced the postponement of the 7th National Congress until July 2025. The movement has decided to devote its strength and organizational capacities to the reconstruction of Rio Grande do Sul and to welcoming and caring for its people.
‘Amendments to Agricultural Law would derail food self-sufficiency goals’: Nouminren, JAPAN
17 May 2024
The National Legislature of Japan (also referred to as the National Diet) is currently deliberating on the revision of the Basic Agricultural Law. The move will mark the first full-scale revision to the basic law that governs agriculture policy, since its enactment in 1999.
24-31 May: CLOC to organize the VI Continental School of Women
16 May 2024
From May 24th to 31st, 2024, the VI Continental School of Women of the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations, CLOC-Via Campesina, will take place at the Mama Tingo Training and Capacity Building Center (Cefcamati), in the Dominican Republic.