In these times of growing hunger and multiple crises, it is more urgent than ever that governments and the UN listen to us. We call on you: change direction, and support our demands and efforts for a food sovereign future based on human rights and the principles of agroecology, care, justice, diversity, solidarity and accountability.
UNFSS2021
Calling for True Food Systems Change: Social movements and Indigenous Peoples challenge the UN Food Systems Summit+2
The controversy surrounding next month’s UN Food Systems Summit+2 began two years ago, when it sparked a global outcry due to the escalating influence of corporations and their proxy organizations in decision-making spaces – within the Summit and across organizing UN agencies.
Opinion: Small-scale farmers must control our food system
The Food Systems Summit in New York is supposed to come up with a global strategy to… Read more →
Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening?
(This article co-authored by Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink first appeared on The Guardian on… Read more →
North American Coalition Mobilizes To Counter UN Food Systems Summit 2021
What: A virtual event to elevate voices and concerns of food providers marginalized by the… Read more →
The UN Food Systems Summit is hogwash. It is a threat to peoples’ food sovereignty
La Via Campesina’s Press Statement | September 22nd 2021, Harare: La Via Campesina is among… Read more →
Thousands mobilize to call for food systems that empower people, not companies
UN Food Systems Pre-Summit falls short on climate, hunger crisis, COVID-19, and food systems transformation,… Read more →
Food Sovereignty: 25 years in the making
“Food sovereignty is intrinsically linked to the debate over what we envision for rural areas… Read more →
Boycott the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. Transform the Food Systems based on Food Sovereignty: La Via Campesina South East and East Asia
Much of the world continues to reel under the COVID-19 Pandemic. Over 190 million people… Read more →
Opening Declaration of the Counter-Mobilization to Transform Corporate Food Systems
Confronting the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, climate chaos, increasing hunger and all forms of malnutrition, ecological… Read more →