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La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | May, 2016
by La Vía Campesina
La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | May, 2016
Donate [1]
This edition of the newsletter is the result of a collective effort of
organisations, which are part of_ La Via Campesina_ movement worldwide.
To subscribe click here [2]
La Via Campesina's Annual Report for the year 2015 is out and is
available for download in three languages. The report has been made
possible by the collective action and contribution of all its members
and allies.
Download English Version [3]
Download Spanish Version [4]
Download French Version [5]
MONTH OF MAY WITNESS THREE CRUCIAL ENGAGEMENTS AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL BY LA
VIA CAMPESINA
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While peasant actions on the ground continued in the form of #MayDay and
#MarchAgainstMonsanto and several other mobilizations, the month of May
was crucial on three fronts: the engagement with the CSM within of FAO
on the question of connecting small hold farmers to territorial markets;
the push for a global declaration on the rights of peasants and other
people working in rural areas; and a public hearing at the European
Parliament to bring forth human rights violations and abuses by
transnational corporations across the world. This edition of the
newsletter carries updates about all these and more.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
JOINT STATEMENT: ON UN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER
PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS
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We are representatives of peasants, indigenous peoples, pastoralists,
fishers and rural workers from around the globe, between us representing
many millions of rural people, from La Via Campesina along with CETIM,
FIAN International and other human rights organizations.
READ MORE [6]
WHAT IS AT STAKE IN THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR A PEASANT RIGHTS' DECLARATION?
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_Vincent Delobel, member of La Via Campesina, during the third session
of the intergovernmental working group on a United Nations declaration
on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. _
READ MORE [7]
INDUSTRY BENEFITS BUT DOES NOT PAY ITS DUES. PATENTS ARE AN ASSAULT ON
GENETIC RESOURCES
_Guy Kastler from Via Campesina argues in this article. _
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Patents increasingly undermine the strong legal edifice patiently
constructed by UPOV. However, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture guarantees free access to the main
industrial resource of plant breeders - peasants' seeds collected from
farms across the world.
READ MORE [8]
REPORT: FARM SUCCESSION IN ROMANIA | ECO RURALIS
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This report looks specifically at Romania, which reflects the global
statistics on aging peasants.
In Romania, 66.4% of peasants are over 55 years old and only 7.3% are
under 35 years of age.
READ MORE [9]
MOBILISATION CALL: 2ND NYÉLÉNI EUROPE FORUM FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
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The 2nd Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty will be organised
around 5 thematic axes, and oriented towards 4 goals.
READ MORE [10]
ZIMSOFF AND UCAMA FARMERS JOIN HANDS TO FIGHT FOR FARMER SAVED SEEDS
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Farmer visits were arranged to identify good practices of community
based seed systems and to develop a pilot collaborative programme on
'smallholder farmer managed seed systems' between the two organisations.
READ MORE [11]
EVENT INVITE: 'TTIP - TRADING AWAY OUR FOOD AND FARMERS?'
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Civil society groups and farming organisations have expressed concern
that the TTIP will lead to the further intensification and corporate
concentration of agriculture on both sides of the Atlantic, threatening
family farms' survival and citizen's health.
READ MORE [12]
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY TNCS | PUBLIC HEARING AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
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In order to prepare the next meeting of the Working Group and put
together the efforts and experience of activists and Human Rights
lawyers from all over the worlds, GUE/NGL, PODEMOS, the Global Campaign
to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, Friends of the Earth
International, the Centre Europe Tiers-Monde (CETIM) and the
Transnational Institute organized a Public Hearing at the European
Parliament in Brussels. La Via Campesina also represented itself at the
public hearing.
READ MORE [13]
ARTICLE 19-RIGHT TO LAND AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES- ABSOLUTELY
UNNEGOTIABLE
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An intervention by David Jelinek of ÖBV- Via Campesina Austria, during
the third session of the intergovernmental working group on a United
Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working
in rural areas
READ MORE [14]
INDONESIAN PEASANTS UNION (SPI) HOLD A CONSULTATION ON PEASANT RIGHTS
_In the run upto the Geneva consultation_
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Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI, Indonesia Peasants Union) and La Via
Campesina (international peasants movement) held a Regional
Consultation, Training and Meetings on Peasant Rights in PKBI
Guesthouse, Jakarta, April 26 to 29, 2016.
READ MORE [15]
INTERVENTION BY LA VIA CAMPESINA AT THE '30TH FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE
FOR EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA', IN TURKEY
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Adnan Çobanoğlu from the Confederation of Farmers' Unions (ÇİFTÇİ-SEN),
a member organization of La Via Campesina, made a few important
interventions at the 30th FAO Regional Conference for Europe and Central
Asia, being held in Antalya, Turkey.
READ MORE [16]
ECVC PUSHES FOR A UNITED FRONT IN DEFENSE OF SEEDS
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The European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) Seed Group organized a
meeting on April 22th to 24th at the Farm in Dottenfelder Hof in the
periphery of Frankfort (Germany), in order to intensify information
exchanges on the breeding, exchange and use of seeds.
READ MORE [17]
MST STATEMENT ON THE SUSPENSION OF PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF
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The Landless Workers Movement (MST) publicly expresses its disgust and
dissatisfaction regarding the decision of the Senate, this Thursday
(12), in admitting the process of impeachment against President Dilma
Roussef and temporarily withdrawing her from the post.
READ MORE [18]
HONDURAS: STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO CRIMINALISATION OF THE PEASANT
MOVEMENTS
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Having made a thorough analysis of the social situation in Honduras,
particularly with regard to the peasant and indigenous movements, the
Political Coordination Committee of the CLOC-La Vía Campesina Central
America, composed of representatives from Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, meeting together in Tegucigalpa,
issued the following statement:
READ MORE [19]
SEED CARAVAN THROUGH FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY
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The idea of the caravan is to be in direct exchange with farmers who
actively engage in seeds work. To do so, we do not want to sit in a
lecture hall and listen passively, but to actively visit farms in
Southern Germany, Switzerland and in France that work with seeds in
their everyday farm work.
READ MORE [20]
BAFLF: "WTO TREATY ON SUBSIDY WITHDRAWAL FROM AGRICULTURE SUICIDAL"
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Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation has termed the recent WTO
treaty on subsidy withdrawal from agriculture as suicidal for the food
security of Bangladesh.
READ MORE [21]
[22]
The _March against Monsanto_, that took place around the world on May
21, is a people's response to denounce intensive agriculture , using
genetically modified seeds (GMOs) and dependent toxic pesticides.
Monsanto is the global symbol but not the sole representative (Dow
Chemical , Syngenta, Bayer, BASF , DuPont, Limagrain and so forth) of
the adverse impact of industrial agricultural system on social,
environmental and health systems. To watch the image slideshow, click
here [22].
[23]
'GREENING THE REVOLUTION' - A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT FOOD JUSTICE
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An 80-minute, HD award-winning documentary about food justice -- filmed
in Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Kenya, Zambia, India, Brazil and across the
United States. "Greening the Revolution" features interviews with small
farmers and revolutionaries, political intellectuals such as Howard
Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and Vandana Shiva, as well as government/corporate
officials such as the director of the FDA and the government relations
executive for Monsanto (yes, an interview with Monsanto.
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [24]
[25]
'ARE WE COAL?' - SHORT FILM
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A film that exposes human rights violations caused by mining company
Vale and the impacts of ProSavana Project in Mozambique
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [26]
[27]
'FIGHTING FOR SEEDS AND OIL' - SHORT FILM
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Tanzania is at the forefront in the battle for control over Africa's
food system. With the help of the UK government (and others in the G7)
corporations are scrambling to expand their markets in seeds,
fertilisers, agrochemicals and land. But small-scale farmer
organisations are fighting back by strengthening farmers' knowledge of
land, seeds and soil. Aid donors need to decide; is aid money there to
help small-scale farmers get better access to chemical free technologies
or is it simply to expand the market reach of large corporations?
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [28]
YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AUTONOMY OF OUR MOVEMENT
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Arab region
by La Vía Campesina
Dear all,
I am very much involved in land governance / land management issues in
Arab countries. I am wondering if via- campesina has any partners in the
Arab region. Or are there any contemporary land reform-related documents
or actions concerning Arab countries.
With kind regards
Willi Zimmermann
/Land policy advisor//
//Leipzig//
//Germany/
8 years, 6 months
International Launch of La Via Campesina’s 7th International Conference
by La Vía Campesina
INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH OF LA VIA CAMPESINA'S 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
[1]
Published on Tuesday, 14 June 2016 03:54
[2]LA VIA CAMPESINA PRESS RELEASE
(June 13th, 2016) On June 10th, La Via Campesina, together with members
of the Political Coordination Committee, held a public event in Derio to
mark the beginning of the process leading to the 7th International
Conference, which will be held in the Basque country in July 2017. The
International Conferences take place every four years. They constitute
La Via Campesina's highest collective decision-making body and its most
important space for debate and discussion and for developing a
mobilisation agenda for the peasant and farmer movement.
La Vía Campesina has constructed a global and politicised peasant and
farmer identity that is connected to the land and to the building of
Food Sovereignty, through the provision of healthy,
agroecologically-produced food for the population. It is opposed to the
neoliberal agribusiness model and to the large multinational
corporations as well as to the support that they receive from
governments. Its member organisations represent the sectors that have
been most affected by the globalisation of food production: small and
medium farmers, farmworkers, the landless, rural women, indigenous
peoples. La Via Campesina has brought together organisations from all
over the world, effacing the division between the global North and
South. At the present time, it is comprised of 9 regions with member
organisations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
La Vía Campesina's previous six International Conferences took place in
Mons, Belgium (1993); Tlaxcala, Mexico (1996); Bangalore, India (2000);
Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004), Maputo, Mozambique (2008) y Jakarta, Indonesia
(2013).
"We have created a political heritage based on a common vision, which
has helped us to understand the world and the future, and which has
allowed us to develop a capacity for mobilisation that is both local and
global. We realise that all over the world women and men peasants and
small-scale farmers have the same problems and that they need to be
united in facing them", said Marina Dos Santos, a member of the
International Coordinating Committee.
In little more than twenty years, La Vía Campesina has become one of the
world's largest social movements and perhaps the most representative
movement in the history of agriculture. Today, La Vía Campesina is
present in 73 countries; it thas 164 member organisations with a total
membership of more than 200 million people, who have joined together to
change the world.
VÍDEO 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LA VÍA CAMPESINA "IF WE SOW
SOLIDARITY, WE WILL HARVEST STRENGTH."
This videoclip and song have been produced to accompany the activities
that will be taking place in conjunction with La Via Campesina's 7th
International Conference. The words were written by the writer Joseba
Sarrionaindia and the singers are from the group "En tol Sarmiento" with
the participation of Ines Osinaga (Gose).
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8 years, 6 months
Solidarity Campaign with Honduras
by La Vía Campesina
SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN WITH HONDURAS [1]
Published on Thursday, 09 June 2016 05:19
BERTA CÁCERES
A WAKE-UP CALL TO THE WORLD; THERE IS NO MORE TIME LEFT!
In the early morning of March 3rd, 2016, our sister in struggle Berta
Cáceres, the General Coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and
Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (COPINH), was assassinated.
On numerous occasions, Berta Cáceres had expressed her opposition to the
present government's disastrous policies regarding natural resource
concessions. She had also spoken out against the actions of
transnational companies and the detrimental effects of their land
acquisitions and dam building projects on the natural resources of the
indigenous peoples.
In response to her struggle against these foreign companies and their
destruction of natural resources, the Honduran government itself
subjected Berta Cáceres to punitive measures,
Nevertheless, when she was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmenal
Prize for her defence of her country's natural resources, the whole
world recognised Berta Cáceres' courage as a human rights defender. See
the video here. [2]
La Vía Campesina remembers and commemorates our sister Berta Cáceres'
historic struggle, at the side of the Honduran people, for the right to
land - her struggle for the defence of their sovereignty, for
comprehensive land reform, and for the Food Sovereignty of the Honduran
people.
It is in this context that we condemn the situation of systematic human
rights violations with which Honduras is confronted. The death rate in
Honduras is higher than that of a country at war. We stand by Honduran
peasants in their legitímate demands for access to land and for Food
Sovereignty. Through our communications media and together with our
allies, we will continue to report on and to condemn the criminalisation
of the women and men peasants of Honduras.
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بيان صادر عن اتحاد لجان العمل الزراعي/ A statement issued by the Union of Agricultural Work Committees
by La Vía Campesina
الزملاء الاعزاء ,,
تتزامن ذكرى مرور 49 عاما على الاحتلال الاسرائيلي للضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة
وسيناء والجولان التي تحل في الخامس من حزيران مع إحياء دول العالم لليوم
العالمي للبيئة ، الذي اعتمد دوليا في أول مؤتمر للأمم المتحدة يعنى بالبيئة في
العاصمة السويدية استكهولم عام 1972 ، وهو عام إنشاء برنامج الأمم المتحدة
للبيئة UNEP الذي يركز على معالجة المخاطر المحيطة بالبيئة على مستوى العالم
ككل . وفي هذا اليوم, يحيي اتحاد لجان العمل الزراعي مع مختلف شعوب العالم يوم
البيئة , ويؤكد أن استمرار الاحتلال الاسرائيلي لأرضنا سيبقى معيقا لتمتع شعبنا
الفلسطيني بموارده الطبيعية وفي مقدمتها ارضه ومياهه كما تمتعه ببيئة نظيفة
خالية من الملوثاث المختلفة التي تضخها المستوطنات ليس في الارض والمياه فحسب
وإنما أيضا في الهواء .
Dear Friends and Activists,
Coinciding with the 49th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, Sinai, and the Golan Heights, the World today reviving
the World Environment Day; World Environment Day was first established to be
celebrated every year by running some effective campaigns by the United
Nations General Assembly and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in
the conference on Human Environment in Swedish capital Stockholm in 1972.
The Union of Agricultural Work committees would like to convey its greetings
to all of its friends and activists around the world participating in the
commemoration of the World Environment Day; we believe that the constant
Israeli occupation of our land will remain an obstacle in the face of our
enjoyment of our natural resources, particularly our land and water
resources as well as our enjoyment of a clean environment that are free from
air, water, and land pollutions caused by the Israeli settlers.
In solidarity,,
_____
Hiba Al-Jibeihi
Union Of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)
Grassroots, Policies, and Advocacy Department
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Declaration against the criminalisation, persecution and judicialization of the struggle for the defence of life, rights, land, water, seeds and mother earth
by La Vía Campesina
DECLARATION AGAINST THE CRIMINALISATION, PERSECUTION AND JUDICIALIZATION
OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE DEFENCE OF LIFE, RIGHTS, LAND, WATER, SEEDS AND
MOTHER EARTH [1]
Published on Wednesday, 01 June 2016 15:12
[2]INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRARIAN REFORM
Marabá, 15 April 2016
>From 13 to 17 April 2016, in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, more than 130
delegates from 28 countries around the world were brought together as
part of La Vía Campesina and allied movements, as part of the
International Conference on Agrarian Reform, a symbol of the fight for
freedom for men and women in the fields, the mangroves and on the sea.
The aim of the conference was to draw up a much-needed proposal for
Popular Agrarian Reform to override capitalist and neoliberal expansion.
At this time of struggle and resistance for peoples of the world, we
debated the_criminalisation, persecution and judicialization of the
struggle for the defence of life, rights, land, water, seeds and mother
earth_, promoted by capitalist interests imposing political, economic,
military and social terrorism. This all occurs with the consent of State
Governments by means of their lethal projects such as extraction-based
infrastructure projects, or capitalist 'development' (tourism, carbon
markets, mining, hydroelectricity, monoculture, agribusiness, industrial
agriculture and mariculture), as well as the militarisation of our
lands. Deprivation, social instability and repression are widespread as
a result of systematic assassinations, massacres, forced disappearances,
high rates of femicide, imprisonment and arbitrary detention,
intimidation, harassment and threats, prosecution of leaders, forced
migration and wars against ordinary people.
On top of this there is political instability with the purpose of
maintaining an imbalance among populations over the world, as well as
frequent coups on the US government's radar, a state which begins by
creating unstable, failed states, as is the case in Honduras, Guatemala,
El Salvador, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, South Africa, and the current
attempted coup against the Brazilian people and the systematic meddling
in the Venezuelan process.
We see collusion between the State, private companies, corporations and
elites who create a culture of impunity that allows perpetrators to
escape unpunished.
Faced with this wave of unbridled criminalisation of those of us who
defend water, land, mangroves, sea, territory and life, we denounce and
call for the punishment of those responsible for thousands of
assassinations of social leaders, we denounce the legal prosecution of
thousands of campaigners, we call for the liberation of thousands of
political prisoners, we denounce the extreme case of the assassination
of Berta Cáceres, one of the most symbolic leaders in the fight against
capital plundering and a campaigner for peace in Honduras. We urgently
need an end to the criminalisation of the fight for land, mangroves and
sea, and the social struggle.
Today, more than ever, we reaffirm that our fight is part of the defence
of human rights and life. For life we give everything, for death we give
nothing.
_Throughout our lifelong struggle, not one moment of silence for our
dead!_
Links:
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[1]
http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-rights...
[2]
http://viacampesina.org/en/images/2016-06-01-Criminalizacion%20Mayo.jpg
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