La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | May 2017
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La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | May, 2017
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THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS!
[3]"We feed our peoples and build the movement to change the world!" -
is the call that will carry hundreds of delegates of the international
peasant movement La Vía Campesina, to the Basque Country from the 16th
to the 24th of July to celebrate their VIIth Conference.
The International Conference of La Via Campesina (LVC), held every four
years, is the movement's highest decision-making forum - gathering
representatives from member organisations of peasants, small and medium
size producers, landless people, indigenous people, migrants and
agricultural workers - from all over the world. Collectively
representing over 200 million people, these delegates will decide common
strategies and host internal debates for the growing global movement.
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
ONE STEP CLOSER TOWARDS A UN DECLARATION
The proposed UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people
working in rural areas discussed in the Fourth Session of the OEIWG
(held in May 2017) is the fruit of the efforts mobilized for the past
several years by La Via Campesina, FIAN and CETIM along with State
parties and other civil society organisations.
Read the Full Statement [4]
EXCHANGE OF SEEDS BETWEEN PEASANTS IS AT THE HEART OF THE COLLECTIVE
SYSTEMS OF CONSERVATION: LA VIA CAMPESINA AT THE UN
Depriving peasants of their rights to conserve, exchange, use and sell
their seeds, is an unacceptable attempt against human rights. Read More
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LA VIA CAMPESINA EMPHATICALLY DEFENDS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN GENEVA, AT THE
UN
Food Security is about economic rights, and food sovereignty is about
human rights. Peasants should have the right to define their own food
and agriculture systems. Peasants should have the right to produce
healthy and culturally appropriate food, through ecologically sound,
socially just and sustainable methods. Read More [6]
BRAZIL: NEW MASSACRE IN PARÁ-BRAZIL EXPOSES FRAGILITY OF THE STATE IN
SOLVING LAND CONFLICTS
Ten squatters - one woman and nine men - were murdered in the morning of
the last Wednesday (24), in the camp Nova Vida, located in the farm
Santa Lúcia, city of Pau D'Arco, in Pará (Amazon Region, in Brazil).
Read More [7]
LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS FOR AN IMMEDIATE END TO EU-JAPAN FREE TRADE
AGREEMENT
When it comes to farmers and food systems, agribusiness TNCs from Europe
- which already export about 5.3 billion euros in agri-food commodities
to Japan - expect the deal to end tariffs and regulations on Japan's
agricultural products and processed foods, worsening the already
disastrous effects of the corporate food system_._ European food
companies want to sell whatever they can in Japan and the EU claims that
the exports to Japan could solve the problems in its dairy and pork
sector. Read More [8]
WHEN THE RIGHT TO LAND IS IN OUR HANDS, WE SEE A FUTURE WHICH IS MORE
JUST, EQUAL
Henry Saragih, while speaking at the UN emphasised that the right to
land will democratize the economy in rural areas. "This means that we
put peasants and other people working in rural areas as subject, to
defend and to develop rural economies.", he said. Read More [9]
FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT IS MUST TO TACKLE AGRARIAN CONFLICTS
On May 15, while intervening during the discussions on Article 1 till 4
of the draft declaration, Geeta Devarajan representing La Via
Campesina's South Asian movements cited the issue of displacements in
rural areas and emphasised on the need for free, prior and informed
consent. Read More [10]
"WE NEED PEASANTS' RIGHTS NOW, NOT ANY LATER!" - CHORUS GROWING IN
GENEVA
Al Abudi Ubai Fahmi from Palestine "...[These rights] are fundamental to
the lives of peasants and rural population who feed and contribute to
the world. We still remember how food crisis 2007-2008 exposed the
neglect faced by peasants agriculture and rural population. Read More
[11]
RIGHTS VIOLATION DOCUMENTATION IMPORTANT EVIDENCE FOR OUR STRUGGLE
La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC SEAf) members and
allies from African, Asian and European countries met in South Africa
(April 18-21) to discuss the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of the
Peasants. Read More [12]
A STATEMENT ON PALESTINIAN PRISONERS AND THE RE-ARREST OF ABDULRAZEQ
FARRAJ
The Israeli occupation government continues its repressive policies
against the Palestinian prisoners and people; the latest violation was
the re-arrest of Abdulrazeq Farraj, journalist and UAWC's administrative
director from his house, at the midnight, in front his family. Read More
[13]
PEASANT NETWORKS AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD
The industrial food chain, dominated by transnational corporations that
control food from seeds to supermarkets, uses 75% of the land and 80% of
the water and fuel used in agriculture. Read More [14]
LA VIA CAMPESINA: VIITH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - PRESS KIT
The international peasant's movement La Via Campesina invites
journalists from around the world to cover our VIIth International
Conference, which will be held in Derio, Bizkaia (Basque Country), 16th
- 24th July 2017. This will be preceded by the IVth International
Assembly of LVC Youth and the Vth International Assembly of LVC Women_._
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A PLACE AT THE TABLE" BY LANWORKERS' ALLIANCE
_Duration: 4 Mins_
The Landworkers' Alliance launched its post-Brexit policy
recommendations outside Defra's offices -17 Smith Square, London - on
Friday 21st April. Featuring a dining table promoting the high-quality
fresh produce of our members, the launch highlights the need for
small-scale and family farmers to be offered a 'place at the table' in
upcoming negotiations over the future of UK agriculture policy. (_Video
by Jason Brooks for Lanworkers' Alliance). _To know more and to
download the report click here [17] Watch Now [18]
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Farmers’ organisations across India, condemn the police firing that killed at least five farmers in Madhya Pradesh
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FARMERS' ORGANISATIONS ACROSS INDIA, CONDEMN THE POLICE FIRING THAT
KILLED AT LEAST FIVE FARMERS IN MADHYA PRADESH [1]
STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE ALL INDIA COORDINATION COMMITTEE OF FARMERS
MOVEMENT (AICCFM)
On Tuesday, June 6, agitating farmers in Mandsaur district in the
central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, who had been demanding loan
waivers and better support price for their produce, were shot at by the
police. According to latest available media reports, at least five of
them have been killed in the firing.
The All India Coordination Committee of Farmers Movement (AICCFM)
strongly condemns this heinous attack on our sisters and brothers and
demand urgent action against all officials who are responsible for this
murderous act. We also demand that the State Government take moral
responsibility and resign immediately.
This is an incident that is bringing back painful memories of the
Colonial era, when farmers and farm labourers were often shot at for
claiming their rights. It is a pity that people who work the land and
feed the population continues to be treated inhumanely and killed for
voicing their disappointment with the State.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers and farm workers who were forced to
commit suicide due to increasing debt over the last two decades and
several more millions across India who are facing a precarious and
unpredictable future, exacerbated by extreme climatic conditions, have
for long been demanding that attention be paid to rural distress and
steps be taken to support farming families and workers.
The demands of the protesting farmers - calling for loan-waivers, better
support price - have been the demands of all farmers' organisations
including that of AICCFM, since a very long time and we reiterate our
resolve to take to the streets if our demands are not met.
AICCFM is also calling upon our sisters and brothers of _La Via
Campesina_, the global peasant movement, to condemn and protest this
brutal killing and join us in our struggle for justice to peasants
worldwide.
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Ch. Rakesh Tikait, National Spokesman, BKU
Ajmer Singh Lakhowal, State President, BKU Punjab
KS Puttanaiah (MLA), Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, Karnataka
Yudhvir Singh, General Secretary, AICCFM
Chamarasa Patil, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, Karnataka
K. Sella Mutthu, President, Tamil Nadu Farmers Association, Tamil Nadu
Ratan Singh Mann, BKU President, Haryana
Vijender Singh, BKU, Haryana
Nallagounder, Uzhavar Ulaippalar Katchi, Tamil Nadu Farmers Association
Rajvir Singh, BKU, NCR
KT Gangadhar, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, Karnataka
Ms. Rajariga, President, Women Wing, Tamil Nadu Farmers Association
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