Via-info-en November 2014

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La Via Campesina: Day of Action Against Violence Towards Women
by La Vía Campesina 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

LA VIA CAMPESINA: DAY OF ACTION AGAINST VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN [1] _LA VIA CAMPESINA PRESS RELEASE _ On this International Day of Action Against Violence Towards Women, La Via Campesina is again denouncing the structural violence that women have to confront each day and that has been systematically silenced, made to appear natural, and rendered invisible by patriarchal capitalist society. In 2008, in its Vth Conference, La Via Campesina launched the Global Campaign to End Violence Towards Women, both as an urgent appeal for a social, cultural, and political change in peoples, in communities, and in organisations, and as a challenge to society as a whole to effect a cultural transformation in order to overcome the relations of inequality between men and women. Violence and oppression against women existed in pre-capitalist societies, but it is since the onset of capitalism that violence in all its forms - political, economic, physical, and pyschological - has intensified. Today, violence against women is found among all social classes, generations, and sexual orientations, affecting both urban women and rural women. For La Via Campesina, the violence experienced nowadays by rural women is directly related to agribusiness and to capitalist production methods, which exploit and dispossess peasant women who have, historically, guaranteed Food Sovereignty for their Peoples, and who are the caretakers of ancestral knowledge -both with respect to food production and to biodiversity conservation. Agribusiness is the strategy of patriarchal capitalism in the countryside, one which ignores the essential role of women in peasant agriculture. Neo-liberal structural adjustment policies have exacerbated the conditions of oppression, discrimination, and increasing violence suffered by rural women. This November 25th, 2014, women across the world are calling for a day of mobilisation and denunciation, challenging ourselves to strengthen our forms of resistance and struggle, in order to make a definitive break with the silence imposed by capitalist patriarchal hypocrisy and to establish new human relations. Our political project as La Via Campesina is to construct a new vision of society that is based on the principles of respect, equality, justice, solidarity, peace and freedom, and which is linked to the struggles for land, water, seeds, comprehensive land reform, Food Sovereignty with gender justice, and for the dignity of rural peoples. _WOMEN SOWING STRUGGLE AND HOPE,_ _FOR FEMINISM AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY_ See the new set of post cards of the campaign [2] : you can print and send them around More videos about Women on Via Campesina TV [3]. Publication of the Campaign to stop violence againts Women [4] Links: ------ [1] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/women-main… [2] http://tv.viacampesina.org/-RADIO-PICTURES-?lang=en [3] http://tv.viacampesina.org/La-Via-Campesina-End-violence?lang=en [4] http://www.viacampesina.org/downloads/pdf/en/Cartilha-VCSudam%C3%A9rica-ing…

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Nutrition is not for profit: Second International Conference on Nutrition
by La Vía Campesina 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

NUTRITION IS NOT FOR PROFIT: SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUTRITION [1] _(Rome November 20th, 2014)_ La Via Campesina and URGENCI, jointly with other Social movements, gathered in Rome for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), where Member States of FAO and WHO are discussing and adopting a framework for action on nutrition. This event, organised jointly by FAO and WHO, is happening 22 years after the first ICN, 22 years in which no improvements have been made by the international community; 22 years in which the private sector has captured nutrition as a business opportunity to provide a never-ending list of "nutrient-enriched" and GMO pseudo-solutions to consumers. Transnational corporations have no place in trade agreements or our food systems! As movements of small-scale farmers and consumers, LVC and URGENCI feel the need to remind the Member States that the problem of malnutrition is not just a technical issue, but a systemic one. It is not possible to have healthy and culturally appropriate nutrition without food sovereignty. Teikei, the original Japanese CSA movement was founded in the 1970s as Japanese housewives' answer to the problems caused by industrial heavy metal pollution of their food. These issues, as well as those of land-,water- and ocean grabbing, mono-cropping and pollution from agrochemicals have become much worse in the last 40 years. As Marciano Da Silva, a member of the movement of small-scale farmers in Brazil says "The people of the world could all be well fed, if peasant agricultural systems were protected by States. Nutrition can not exist without food in all its diversity" Tianle Chang, of the Beijing Farmers' Market says that " ...in China, there is an emerging movement of small organic producers working with local consumers to create sustainable food communities together. Initiatives like farmers' markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) have proved to be good solutions to nutrition while supporting the health of environment and communities" The issue of building and defending sustainable local food systems is central for producers and consumers alike. Agroecology combined with alternative food distribution systems and economic change are central to achieving nutrition, the right to food and food sovereignty! Nutrition should be grouped together with food and jointly covered under the auspices of the CFS (Committee on World Food Security) within the inclusive framework of the CFS. Public Institutions and States' policy on food and nutrition must also remain separate and independent from all private business interests. _NUTRITION IS NOT FOR PROFIT!_ LVC and Urgenci press contacts in Rome: Judith Hitchman (EN, FR), Advocacy officer, Urgenci International Network +(33)680600391 Andrea Ferrante (EN, ES, FR, IT), La Via Campesina, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +39 3480189221 Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/sustainable-pe…

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Newsletter La Via Campesina - October 2014
by La Vía Campesina 11 Nov '14

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