In the week leading up to the International Day of Peasant Struggles (17 April), ECVC… Read more →
Free Trade Agreements
“Outdated model, fails the planet” Civil Society, Social Movements in Europe slam EU-Mercosur deal
The EU-Mercosur belongs to an out-dated 20th model of trade that has failed the planet:… Read more →
Corporate Lobbies have their boot on the neck of Europe
On Tuesday 8 December, the Belgian peasant farmers’ movement and its allies set up a… Read more →
Farmers’ Movements in India mobilise in large numbers to protest ‘pro-corporate’ reforms
Thousands of Indian farmers are pressing on with protests in and around the national capital… Read more →
La Via Campesina backs the UN Special Rapporteur’s observation that WTO policies have marginalised people’s human rights concerns
After 25 years, the World Trade Organization (WTO), one of the flag bearers of international… Read more →
Joint Declaration: Europe’s family farmers call for a rejection of the EU-Mercosur Agreement
Brussels: September 18, 2020 Joint press release on the informal EU Trade Council, 20-21 September… Read more →
It’s time to transform. It’s time to Globalize Solidarity, Localize Agriculture!
On 10 September 2003 and outside the WTO Ministerial meeting venue in Cancun Mexico, Lee… Read more →
Video: India-US Free Trade Agreement and its impact on small-scale food producers in India
On 24 February 2020, Donald Trump made a two-day presidential visit to India where he… Read more →
France: peasants and activists denounce the hypocrisy of the vote in favour of CETA
On July 23, 2019, the National Assembly ratified CETA despite the challenge from civil society.… Read more →
La Via Campesina Mexico issues letter in defense of seeds and peasant and indigenous agriculture
WE, LA VIA CAMPESINA MEXICO, CLAIM OUR RIGHT, AS PEASANT AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, TO CONSERVE,… Read more →
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Our events
#17April2021: Twenty-Five Years of peasants’ struggles in bringing Food Sovereignty to reality
At the 1996 World Food Summit La Via Campesina put words to its vision to… Read more →