First published by Fair World Project on 09/10/2018 Elizabeth Mpofu Food sovereignty is a feminist… Read more →
Agroecology and Peasants’Seeds
In rural Paraguay, women are on the frontlines of a ‘race against time’ to save native seeds
Amid the spread of industrial farming, transgenic crops and seed patents, rural women are conserving… Read more →
Nicaraguan women’s cooperative building self-sufficiency and food sovereignty
(August 24, 2018: Managua, Nicaragua) Over 30 La Via Campesina delegates and allies attending the… Read more →
Peasant Women in Korea denounce Smart Farm Policy, submit a charter of eight demands to President Moon
Members of Korean Women Peasant Association mobilised in large numbers in Seoul to draw attention… Read more →
Decision of the European Court of Justice on new GMOs: a historic victory for peasants and citizens of the EU
Brussels, July 25th 2018 – The European Court of Justice has issued its decision on… Read more →
RCEP will be disastrous for Indian dairy farmers and agriculture: La Via Campesia South Asia during Bangkok negotiations
Kannaiyan Subramaniam, the General Secretary of South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements (SICCFM), a… Read more →
A handful of countries legitimising claims made by agro-industry, diminishing the rights of people to seeds
Convention on Biological Diversity – twenty-second meeting of the SUBSIDIARY BODY ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND… Read more →
Gene Drive is a threat to people, country and even world’s food sovereignty: La Via Campesina in Montreal
Full text of the intervention made by Geneviève Lalumière of UNION PAYSANNE at the meeting… Read more →
La Via Campesina denounces corporate influence in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Canada
Harare, 29 June: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will hold meetings of the XXII… Read more →
A major breakthrough in scaling up agroecological farming in Karnataka, India
26 June 2018, Bengaluru, India: After the much publicised commitment of the State of Andhra… Read more →
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Our events
16 October: International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against Transnational corporations
Direct actions, activities held across the world in defence of food sovereignty and for the… Read more →