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VIIIth International Conference, La Via Campesina: Bogotá Declaration

We, the peasants, rural workers, landless, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, artisanal fisherfolk, forest dwellers, rural women, youth and diversities and other peoples who work in the countryside around the world and united within La Via Campesina, declare that “Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity!” towards a just and decent food system for all, recognizing peoples’ needs, respecting nature, putting people before profit and resisting corporate capture.

Building the Path Forward

On the 6th of December, hundreds of LVC representatives gathered in Bogotá, to debate the movement’s strategic priorities for the next four years. The articulation of this action plan emerged directly from the deliberative discussions and critical analyses of regional realities that have been the focus of the first few days of the 8th International Conference.

“Food sovereignty is to defend nature, to defend water, to defend our planet”

The 8th LVC International Conference is a space for critical reflection on the structural forces creating global crises, and the power of this moment to build connections between grassroots movements that are developing alternative worlds in the present. It presents an opportunity to deepen understanding of the contradictions and grassroots strategies of resistance.