Today, 17 December 2018, the 73 Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73)… Read more →
Food Sovereignty
Nyéléni Newsletter: Food Sovereignty at the rural – urban interface
The rural-urban interface is a complex social space where politics and culture are in constant… Read more →
Brazil: Do not drink coffee from those who expel peasants from the land! Join this campaign!
These companies buy coffee from one of the biggest coffee producers in Brazil, João Faria… Read more →
Peasants demand moratoria on untested corporate technologies that threaten biodiversity, food sovereignty, and peasant’s rights at the Convention on Biodiversity COP in Egypt
At CBD COP 14, La Via Campesina joined our allies MAELA as part of the… Read more →
UNITED NATIONS: Third Committee approves the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
PRESS RELEASE | LA VIA CAMPESINA 19 November. Monday, [NEW YORK] The Third Committee (Social,… Read more →
Farmers’ varieties are essential to the future of food says new ZIMSOFF case study
Summary: Increasing the availability of agro-biodiversity will become more and more important, not only in the… Read more →
“The right to adequate food is the right to dignity and life”
Global Civil Society Forum consolidates positions towards CFS 45 The Civil Society Global Forum, an… Read more →
Via Campesina, Bali Declaration: World Bank and IMF represent the interests of agribusiness, they should GO!
BALI DECLARATION BY LA VIA CAMPESINA BALI, INDONESIA, 11 OCTOBER 2018 WORLD BANK AND IMF… Read more →
Global civil society and grassroots movements in Rome to influence world food policies
Civil Society Mechanism for relations to the UN Committee on World Food Security Media Advisory… Read more →
India: Thousands of farmers reach Delhi protesting government apathy
Farmers affiliated to the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) flagged off the ‘Kisan Kranti Yatra’ on… Read more →
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Our events
08 March: International Women’s Day 2019
On this day, we, the women of La Via Campesina – peasants, indigenous women, Afro-descendants,… Read more →