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‘World Bank Out of Land!’ – 80+ organizations denounce World Bank’s 2024 Land Conference
15 May 2024
. In a new statement ahead of the conference, they demand that the World Bank stays out of people’s land. Not only does the World Bank invest directly in land projects, but it also has a long history of promoting a market-based approach to natural resource management and encouraging privatization.
Srilanka: Civil Society Calls For Transparency In Industry Body’s Climate Summit
The protesting organizations allege that the policy outlines being drawn at a closed-door event with the business community will not include accountability or justice for the small-scale farmers, freshwater fishers, coastal fishing communities, and women.
As Conference on Biodiversity (COP16) draws near, CLOC to attend ‘Ecoovida 2024’ in Colombia
14 May 2024
Within the framework of Biodiversity COP16 the CLOC-Via Campesina will participate in an alternate space with social movements called the International Meeting Economies for Life (Ecoovida) 2024, organized by the Government of Colombia in Cali from October 22 to 26, 2024.
La Via Campesina Brazil calls for international solidarity as flood devastates Rio Grande do Sul
Among those affected are also peasants organized in the movements that make up La Via Campesina Brazil. LVC movements have mobilized to help peasant families and extend solidarity to affected families – and they need your support.
Korean Peasant Unions condemn import of agricultural products through Hanaro Mart
Peasants’ Unions in Korea are protesting the sale of imported agricultural products by the local agricultural cooperatives, especially by Hanaro Mart. These protests are intensifying across the South Jeolla Province (Jeollanam-do) all the way from Gwangyang at the eastern end to Yeongam at the western end.
Pakistan: Wheat imports result in huge losses for peasants. Nationwide protest announced
13 May 2024
The unions are incensed by the influx of wheat imports during the latter half of 2023 and the initial months of 2024, which has led to an oversupply of wheat in the market and subsequent price reductions. The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), then in power, made this decision in July 2023, merely a month before the conclusion of its care-taker governmental tenure.
Arab and North Africa region of La Via Campesina issues Solidarity to Sudanese People
12 May 2024
At the recently concluded regional meeting of the ArNA members of La Via Campesina, the peasant unions issued solidarity to the suffering people of Sudan that includes workers, farmers, and agricultural workers, who are trapped in a senseless war that broke out in April 2023, and continues to this day.
Arab and North Africa (ArNA) region of La Via Campesina issues Solidarity to Palestine
LVC in the Arab and North African region expresses its great solidarity and absolute support for the Palestinian people in these difficult circumstances and in the face of these crimes that disgust humanity and which humanity has never witnessed before.
La Via Campesina in the Arab and North Africa Region | Declaration from regional meeting 2024
On May 10 and 11, 2024, the regional meeting of the…
Agroecology Clubs: ESAFF Uganda makes efforts to integrate agroecology in school curriculum
9 May 2024
ESAFF Uganda recognized the agroecology knowledge gap in the agriculture curriculum for academic intuitions, thus the first Agroecology Clubs were established in 2019 during the first National Organic Week.
AGRIFISH council fails to recognise that it is big agri-businesseses that profit from FTAs : ECVC
8 May 2024
At the recent AGRIFISH meeting, representatives advocated for export-oriented free trade policies, conflicting with farmers’ demands for fair prices covering production costs via market regulation, as per ECVC.
Agroecological transition requires fair prices: ECVC
7 May 2024
ECVC underlines that certain CAP conditionality rules are not adapted to the realities of farmers, requires complex and heavy bureaucracy indeed, and is insufficient to effectively support European farmers in a transition towards more sustainable agricultural models and towards agroecology.