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La Via Campesina: Solidarity and internationalism are the source of our strength! Together united into 2021!
by La Via Campesina 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

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La Vía Campesina | Colombia Peace Agreement "Ceasefire" Bulletin | III Edition 2020
by La Via Campesina 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

La Vía Campesina | "Ceasefire" Bulletin | III Edition 2020 Donate [1] This bulletin is the result of a collective effort by La Via Campesina to share information on the implementation of the Peace Agreement in Colombia. To subscribe click here [2] LA VIA CAMPESINA: COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS CHARACTERIZED BY NON-COMPLIANCE AND SURGE IN VIOLENCE November 24th was the fourth anniversary of the day when the Colombian State and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) signed an agreement to end the oldest armed conflict in Latin America.The hope that this event had raised among Colombian people and the whole world four years ago has vanished since then.Read more ... [3] FEATURED ARTICLES COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS: FORUM IN NOVEMBER 2020 CALLS FOR COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM On November 24th, La Via Campesina organized a forum to celebrate the 4th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Agreement in Colombia with the objective of sharing reflections on the state of implementation of the Agreement, as well as the challenges facing the peace-building process in the country. Read more ... [4] COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS: THE ABANDONMENT OF THE PNIS AND THE RESUMPTION OF THE "WAR ON DRUGS" Undoubtedly, the economic, political and social dimensions of drug trafficking have been one of the main factors favoring the persistence of the armed conflict in Colombia. The Peace Agreement includes a chapter aimed at transforming the logic of the failed war on drugs with comprehensive programs to transform the most affected territories, hitting the strongest links in the chain and adopting a differentiated penal treatment for the weakest sectors such as growers and consumers; _INTEGRATED NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE SUBSTITUTION OF ILLICITLY USED CROPS – PNIS, __contemplated in point 4 of the Peace Agreement._ Read more ... [5] COLOMBIA: A PEACE AGREEMENT THAT IGNORES DIFFERENTIAL APPROACHES Reports from various entities monitoring the peace process agree that the degree of implementation of the whole Agreement is limited to the legislative execution of the commitments, there is little progress in actual delivery of the transformative challenges of the Agreement. The implementation of the chapters on gender and ethnicity, to date, follows the same logic and there's only advancements in normative and enunciative matters, but none at all has been made in the development of policies containing concrete actions.Read more ... [6] COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS UPDATE: COMPREHENSIVE RURAL REFORM – ONLY 4% COMPLETION! Since the signing of the Peace Agreement on November 24, 2016, the normative development of the Comprehensive Rural Reform - CRR has been limited to the creation of the Development Programs with Territorial Approach - PDETs, the creation of the Land Fund, the adoption of the procedure for the Formalization of Property, the initiation of the Multipurpose Cadastre, and the adoption of 6 National Plans for the Comprehensive Rural Reform - PNCRR. Read more ... [7] COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS UPDATE: "IF WE SPEAK, THEY KILL US, IF WE STAY QUIET, THEY KILL US TOO" "If we speak, they kill us, if we stay quiet, they kill us too", this is the statement of one of the Minga representatives who arrived in Bogotá on October 17. Close to 10,000 indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendent people travelled around 600 km from their territories to the capital, their objective: to call for respect for the lives of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and peasant communities, for their right to land tenure and for the implementation of the Peace Agreement. In the words of an indigenous reservation leader: . Read more ... [8] PRESS RELEASE: CLOC DENOUNCES ARBITRARY ARRESTS OF PEASANT LEADERS IN COLOMBIA The intensification of violence and stigmatisation of social movements in South America has increased in an abysmal fashion. The pandemic has become an occasion for further dispossession, stigmatisation, and violence in countries like Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Columbia, and in general, the majority of countries in the lower region. These actions are meant to stomp out resistance through the extermination of peasants, students, workers, and social organisations more broadly. Read more... [9] YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AUTONOMY OF OUR MOVEMENT ------------------------- As a supporter who has contributed financial resources to La Via Campesina, and as an activist who joins us on the streets and in the fields, your support is always welcome and put to good use. You can renew your contribution to La Via Campesina by [1]clicking here [1]. [10] [11] Twitter [11] [12] Facebook [12] [13] Vimeo [13] To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here [2] For questions or comments, email LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG WEBSITE: www.viacampesina.org [14] TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org [15] To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here [2] -- Viviana Rojas Flores (Biby) La Via Campesina International Operative Secretary (based in Ecuador) Email: viviana.rojas(a)viacampesina.org Phone: (593) 995213177 Skype: bebebiby Links: ------ [1] https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/viacampesina [2] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-colombia-peace-process-charact… [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-peace-process-forum-in-november-2020-c… [5] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-peace-process-the-abandonment-of-the-p… [6] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-a-peace-agreement-that-ignores-differe… [7] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-peace-process-update-comprehensive-rur… [8] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-peace-process-update-human-rights-if-w… [9] https://viacampesina.org/en/press-release-cloc-denounces-arbitrary-arrests-… [10] https://viacampesina.org/en/donations/ [11] http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina [12] https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/ [13] https://vimeo.com/viacampesina [14] http://www.viacampesina.org [15] http://www.tv.viacampesina.org

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Ten Years of Nyeleni Newsletter: Much to Celebrate!
by La Via Campesina 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

A decade ago, the movements of peasants, fisherfolk, shepherds, women, migrants, workers, young people, and indigenous peoples sowed a crucial seed in the defence of Food Sovereignty and the right to food - the Nyéléni Newsletter. During this ten year germination period, we have shared challenges, experiences, reflections, and acts of unity. In recent times, the COVID-19 pandemic has reaffirmed the fundamental role of those who feed communities in a healthy, fair, and sustainable manner. Alarmingly, we have also witnessed how extractive capitalism, authoritarianism and agribusinesses have taken over land and territories with total impunity, causing lives to be put at risk while governments continue to enact policies, regulations, and laws that favour corporations and industrial food systems. DESPITE THIS, THERE IS STILL PLENTY TO CELEBRATE. This newsletter is a unique instrument of solidarity, exchange, training, and communication for the organisations that are advocating for urgent reforms of the Industrial Food System in favour of Food Sovereignty. Today we applaud legislation promoting Food Sovereignty, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, the mass expansion of Agroecology in practice and training through hundreds of schools, as well as the constant fight to keep peasant seeds in the hands of small-scale food producers. DOWNLOAD THE NEWSLETTER HERE [1] Links: ------ [1] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=152

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“A Summit Under Siege” | Corporate control of 2021 UN Food Summit endangers food sovereignty!
by La Via Campesina 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

_Corporate lobbies defending Agribusiness interests are influencing the 2021 UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT preparations, making the process opaque and exclusionary. La Via Campesina explains why this endangers people's food sovereignty and threatens the planet's future._ ----------------------------------- There is little doubt that the world needs to come together to deal with the severe and ongoing impact of COVID-19 on our food systems. When the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS21) was announced in December 2019, the world was a different place. Even then, concerns existed about the non-transparent and illegitimate process behind developing, announcing and organizing that Summit. Consequently, in March 2020 LA VIA CAMPESINA (LVC) JOINED AROUND 550 [1] other social movements and civil society organizations in opposing the corporate takeover of the Summit. [2] As the UNFSS21 process has been moving forward, as La Via Campesina, we are getting more and more alarmed. At the same time, we affirm that a global conversation on our food systems is of utmost importance, as the COVID 19 pandemic has only reinforced and exposed the failure of the corporate food system to address hunger, inequality and the ecological crisis. This paper presents LVC's concerns and reflections related to the Summit, both in terms of process and contents. It also aims to express La Via Campesina's engagement and demands towards a necessary food system transformation guided by the principles of food sovereignty and agroecology. We, at LVC, have not only advocated but also actively participated in democratizing the United Nations. LVC has had a critical role in the reform of UN food policy processes after the 2008 food crisis. The crisis made UN bodies and member states recognize the importance of including the voices of rural social movements and civil society in shaping food policies. In particular, the FAO STRATEGY FOR PARTNERSHIPS [3] with Civil Society Organizations, and the reform of the Committee for World Food Security (CFS) with its Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) brought forth new paradigms, logics and processes that started paving the way to the democratization global food systems policy. This brought about a progressive shift that levelled the "field of play" not only for civil society but also for national governments. LVC, through the unified and committed work and processes of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), has played a vital role in empowering the CSM and CFS processes. Many of the advances were indeed born out of the principles of food sovereignty - a comprehensive model for transforming food systems, restoring the health of our peoples and nature - supported and advocated by LVC since the World Food Summit of 1996. These institutional processes have allowed several significant advances, including the Guidelines on Land Tenure, the Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries, the ongoing process regarding the Guidelines on Agroecology and Other Innovations, and more broadly, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. Many of these new instruments have posed direct obstacles to the global corporate agenda, as well as the imperial interests of global economies and elites. DOWNLOAD THE POSITION PAPER (PDF) [4] Links: ------ [1] https://www.foodsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EN_Edited_draft-… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/LVC-Position… [3] http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3443e.pdf [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/position-paper-a-summit-under-siege-corporate-c…

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India’s farmers seek urgent solidarity. Globalise the Struggle, Globalise Hope!
by La Via Campesina 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

INDIA'S FARMERS SEEK URGENT SOLIDARITY. GLOBALISE THE STRUGGLE, GLOBALISE HOPE! #SUPPORTINDIANFARMERS #PEASANTFORPEASANTSOLIDARITY Thousands of our sisters, brothers and kins are pressing on with protests in and around India's National Capital, against three agricultural legislations that could be exploited by the private sector to buy crops at low prices. Despite the cold weather and brutal police crackdowns in some areas, protesting farmers and farm workers are resolute in their demand for a complete roll-back of these legislations. Since September 2020, several farmers' organisations in India, among them Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Bhartiya Kisan Union and many others, have been protesting the national government's attempts to bring in three legislations, that could make small-scale food producers vulnerable to exploitation by big corporations. * * These legislations, the farmers allege, would provide a perfect cover for corporations to further push down the prices of the produce. It would also weaken the government's procurement system, whereby the government buys staples, such as wheat and rice, at guaranteed prices. PROTESTING FARMERS WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO FIRST ROLL-BACK ALL THE THREE LEGISLATIONS, which they say were brought in with little or no consultation with them. They have demanded that the Government forms a Panel, which will then evaluate these legislations in consultation with the farmers and then build a consensus with the people who are affected by any reforms. THE FARMERS ARE ALSO DEMANDING THAT GOVERNMENT BRING IN A LAW THAT GUARANTEES MINIMUM SUPPORT PRICE FOR THEIR PRODUCE so that under no conditions, farmers are forced to sell their produce at losses. On 08 December 2020, farmers have called a nationwide strike across India, which also found support from trade unions, transport unions and many others. As La Via Campesina South Asia, representing and led by small-scale food producers in the region, WE CALL UPON ALL PEASANT ORGANISATIONS AROUND THE WORLD TO SEND MESSAGES OF SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY TO THE PROTESTING INDIAN FARMERS and echo their demands. It is time that peasants of the world unite, as the struggle for dignity and respect binds us all together, irrespective of where we are. Time has come to 'Globalise the Struggle and Globalise the Hope' for a dignified life for the communities who feed a majority of the world's population. It is essential to show our collective strength and remind the world that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere! HOW CAN YOU SHOW SOLIDARITY? * MOBILISE IN YOUR REGION, in support of Indian farmers and send photos/video messages to SECRETARIATLVCSOUTHASIA(a)GMAIL.COM * WRITE LETTERS TO INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONS in your country and extend your solidarity to India's small-scale food producers. Find the contacts of Indian Missions in your country/region here: https://mea.gov.in/indian-missions-abroad-new.htm#A * ISSUE STATEMENTS OF SOLIDARITY WITH INDIAN FARMERS and email them to secretariatlvcsouthasia(a)gmail.com * SHARE YOUR MESSAGES OF SOLIDARITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THE HASHTAGS #SupportIndianFarmers and #PeasantForPeasantSolidarity and tag @lvc_southasia on Twitter and @lvcsouthasia Facebook ------------------------- _issued by LA VIA CAMPESINA SOUTH ASIA | _08 December 2020 ail [1] ail [1] Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/#email

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03 Dec 2020: International Day of Action for Life and Against Agrotoxics
by La Via Campesina 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser 03 DEC: PEASANT AGROECOLOGY NURTURES LIFE! #AGROTOXICSKILL | INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR LIFE AND AGAINST AGROTOXICS ------------------------- 03 DECEMBER 2020, HARARE: This _'INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR LIFE AND AGAINST AGROTOXICS'_ La Via Campesina, in association with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, is releasing a short video that highlights the promise of peasant agroecological practices, which is based on centuries of evidence and expertise. [1] We require a radical shift away from resource-intensive and wasteful production and consumption patterns and a deep transformation towards ecological sustainability and social justice. Demanding this transformation is not 'naïve' or 'politically unfeasible', it is radically realistic. Peasant agroecology is people's response to the inefficiencies and ill-effects of the Industrial food system, which is based on extensive use of agro-chemicals. Agrochemicals are the main source of greenhouses gases responsible for climate change. Research points out that [2] chemical fertilisers are responsible for numerous environmental and health calamities and are dwindling yields. Over the past 40 years, the efficiency of nitrogen fertilisers has decreased by two-thirds globally, and their distribution per hectare has increased by seven times. Yet, the use of agro-toxics is one of the main pillars of agribusiness, together with transgenic (genetically modified) seeds. The production and marketing of agro-toxics is monopolised by four large transnational companies that recently merged and have, working with and through subsidiaries and front companies, gained full control of the world agricultural input market: Monsanto-Bayer, DowDupond, Syngenta-ChemChina and BASF. The use of agro-toxics is no longer an issue solely related to agricultural production, but rather it's becoming a hazard for public health and the preservation of nature. Several European countries have already banned and punished the use of GMOs and agro-toxics due to their dangerous side effects. Inspired from a chapter that La Via Campesina contributed [3] in the publication Radical Realism for Climate Justice and edited by Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the video highlights how industrialised agriculture and the corporate food system are at the centre of the climate crisis and cannot be ignored in discussions about pathways to a 1.5 degree Celsius world. On this day, it is important to remind our communities and the world that food sovereignty is our compass and agroecological transition is the roadmap to achieve these needed systemic transformations. PEASANT AGROECOLOGY NURTURES LIFE! #AGROTOXICSKILL To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here For questions or comments, email lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org Website: www.viacampesina.org [4] TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org [5] Links: ------ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnQurZDivo&feature=emb_logo [2] https://www.grain.org/en/article/5373-is-industrial-farming-a-tech-fix-or-d…. [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/publication-la-via-campesina-in-action-for-clim… [4] http://www.viacampesina.org [5] http://www.tv.viacampesina.org

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