La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | April 2018
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANTS' STRUGGLES 2018: LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS
FOR THE COORDINATION OF DECENTRALISED, UNITED ACTION!
_For land and for life! Enough Free Trade Agreements, enough impunity!_
(Harare, 10th April 2018) : This 17th April, on the International Day of
Peasants' Struggles, La Via Campesina recalls the massacre of the 19
landless peasants, murdered by agribusiness.
United in courage and rebellion, we call on our member organisations,
allies, friends and organised peoples to coordinate actions of
resistance in all forms for Land and sea, on a worldwide scale, against
Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and the criminalisation of social struggles.
Read more... [3]
FEATURED ARTICLES FROM FEB-MARCH 2018
THIS APRIL 17TH WE DEMAND THAT THE PEASANTS RIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED.
ENOUGH OF FTAS, ENOUGH IMPUNITY FOR CORPORATIONS!
(Harare, April 17th 2018) After two decades of Free Trade Agreements
(FTAs), being advanced in an attempt to recolonize and 22 years after
the de Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Brazil, La Via Campesina
denounces the impunity with which these actions are carried out. Read
more... [4]
WHEN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MEETS CORPORATE INTERESTS
_Solutions to the problems facing agriculture today need to go beyond
organic. They need to be oriented toward food sovereignty._
A recent investigative report by Radio-Canada's La Semaine Verte
revealed just how blatantly global corporate interests are appropriating
organic agriculture. Read more ... [5]
RIGHT TO AGRARIAN REFORM FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY CAMPAIGN: APRIL 17
STATEMENT
_Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) Press Statement_
Today, 17 April, our movement, the Right To Agrarian Reform for Food
Sovereignty Campaign, or in short, The Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) ,
a member of the international peasant's movement, La Via Campesina (LVC)
will commemorate the International Day of Peasants' Struggles. Read
more ... [6]
AGROECOLOGY IS OUR BEST HOPE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The Sustainable Development Goals present an impressive commitment to
eradicating poverty, ending hunger, achieving food security, promoting
nutrition and sustainable agriculture and ensuring that no one is left
behind. Agroecology is based on traditional and indigenous farming
knowledge, and when carried out by peasants has shown to be much more
productive per hectare than industrial, agribusiness monoculture. Read
more ... [7]
KEEP AGRICULTURE OUT OF FREE TRADE! STATEMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
FORUM ON FREE TRADE AND AGRICULTURE
Seoul, April 19, 2018: Since World Trade Organization was established
and the Agreement on Agriculture from the Uruguay Round came into
effect, free trade of agricultural products has expanded globally. Since
WTO's negotiation around Doha Development Agenda stopped, numerous free
trade agreements have been signed, spreading further free trade of
agricultural products all over the world. Read more ... [8]
THE FAIR OF THE MST GATHERS THOUSANDS IN MEETING ABOUT HEALTHY FOOD
Activity honor Paul Singer during the 3rd National Fair of Agrarian
Reform in São Paulo
"The MST use the Fairs as the main methodology in the debate with the
population regarding the Popular Agrarian Reform and healthy food
production", said João Pedro Stedile, the national coordinator of the
MST. Read more ... [9]
PETITION: EU, PROTECT OUR PEASANTS AND FOOD SYSTEMS!
_EU governments and leaders_
The 2 billion people working in rural areas are claiming their rights to
dignity and our right to healthy diets. A UN declaration on their rights
is the most powerful legal instrument against abuses like landgrabs,
biopiracy and labour exploitation. Read more... [10]
LA VIA CAMPESINA CONDEMNS ISRAEL'S MASSACRE ON 'LAND DAY' 2018 AND CALLS
FOR AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE BLOODSHED
La Via Campesina firmly condemns the recent assassinations committed by
the criminal State of Israel and solemnly supports the Palestinian
people in their struggle for land, freedom and dignity. Read more...
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"LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ADOPTION OF A STRONG UN DECLARATION, CAPABLE OF
PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL
AREAS"
My name is Zainal Fuat, from the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI) and
from the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of La Vía Campesina.
I hereby speak on behalf of La Vía Campesina, which is the largest
international peasant movement bringing together millions of peasants,
small and medium size peasants, landless people, rural women and youth,
migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. Read more...
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APRIL 17 – ECVC TO ORGANISE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS!
_April 17: Free Farmers from Free Trade Agreements!_
MERCOSUR, CETA, JEFTA ARE A DEATHBLOW
On 17th April 1996, a private militia fires and murders 19 landless
peasants in Eldorado do Carajas, Para State, Brazil. Their crime?
Occupying fallow land belonging to a rich landowner. Read more... [13]
THE TIME HAS COME TO SCALE UP PEASANT AGROECOLOGY: LA VIA CAMPESINA AT
THE II INTERNATIONAL AGROECOLOGY SYMPOSIUM OF FAO
Peasants and other small-scale producers of food are central to
bringing agroecology to scale, FAO Director-General José Graziano da
Silva stressed in his closing remarks to the II International
Agroecology Symposium at FAO held from 3 to 5 of April of 2018 in Rome.
Read more... [14]
JOINT STATEMENT BY LVC AND CSOS: 5TH OEIWG SESSION | UN DECLARATION ON
THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS
Geneva, Palais des Nations, Room XX / 9-13 April 2018
We peasants, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folk and rural
workers, including rural women from around the globe, from La Via
Campesina, IUF, WFFP, FIMARC, IITC along with CETIM, FIAN International
and other organizations, represent all together billions of rural
people. We have been constructively engaging in this process of the UN
Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural
areas, from the field, our workplaces around the world and here in
Geneva for many years. Read more... [15]
STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
(IPC) FROM PAARL (CAPE TOWN), MARCH 2018
_We build a global food system based on our agroecology and food
sovereignty!_
We, the representatives of peasants and family farmers, landless, rural
women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers,
hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, Indigenous Peoples, and
food consumers from all over the world and who are all members of the
IPC, met in Paarl, South Africa to take our struggle for food
sovereignty and agroecology forward. Read more... [16]
LAW ON LAND PROCUREMENT & HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION IS RESULTING IN PEASANT
HOUSES AND LANDS BEING FORCEFULLY GRABBED: SPI, INDONESIA
Jakarta: In Central Java, the Batang-Semarang highway construction has
led to blatant and unjust grabbing of lands and houses onwed by 140
peasant families from the nine villages of Ngawensari, Galih,
Sumbersari, Rejosar, Tunggulsari, Kertomulyo, Penjalin, Magelung and
Nolokerto. Read more ... [17]
MST DIRECTOR: MOVEMENT HOLDS BRAZIL'S "MOST DIVERSE FAIR"
"I dare say this is the biggest fair in Brazil when it comes to
diversity," João Paulo Rodrigues, a director of the Landless Workers'
Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST) said about
the third edition of the movement's National Agrarian Reform Fair. Read
more... [18]
MST FAIR HOLDS SEMINARS AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HEALTHY EATING
Four-day event takes place from Thursday (3) to Sunday (6) in São
Paulo, Brazil
Not only tons of healthy products are being sold at the 3rd National
Agrarian Reform Fair organized by the Landless Workers' Movement
(Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST), but the event also
has a calendar full of seminars dedicated to political education and
culture. Read more ... [19]
DECLARATION AT THE II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AGROECOLOGY APRIL, 2018
We are delegates of different organizations and social movements of
small-scale food producers. We are peasants, fisherfolk and fish
workers, indigenous and traditional peoples, pastoralists and nomads,
agricultural and food workers, the landless, urban and peri-urban
communities living in poverty and food insecurity, consumers, youth,
women and NGOs. Read more ... [20]
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moments and important declarations issued by the global peasant
movement.
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