October Newsletter | Special Edition - 25 Years of Struggle for Food Sovereignty!
by La Via Campesina
SPECIAL EDITION
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25 YEARS OF OUR COLLECTIVE STRUGGLES FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
This October, La Via Campesina together with allies in the gobal
movement for food sovereignty celebrated 25 years of peasant-led efforts
and campaign to bring food sovereignty to reality.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR HIGHLIGHTS. [2]
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, A MANIFESTO FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET | OFFICIAL
STATEMENT FROM LA VIA CAMPESINA [3]
WEBINARS & WORKSHOPS
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS WHO ARE PART OF THE STRUGGLES
FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY HELD WEBINARS, FORUMS, WORKSHOPS AND VIRTUAL
ACTIONS. CATCH UP ON ALL VIRTUAL EVENTS HERE. [4]
REGIONAL ACTIONS
ACROSS THE WORLD, MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS OF LA VIA CAMPESINA HELD SEVERAL
ACTIONS. _CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE GALLERY OF EVENTS. [5]_
PRESS RELEASE & MORE
OUR HISTORIC TASK IS TO ENSURE THAT NO HUMAN BEING GOES HUNGRY. _READ
THE PRESS RELEASE [6]. _
To read a collection of articles and announcements celebrating our
collective struggles, FOLLOW THIS LINK. [7]
POSTCARDS & POSTERS
This month, we are also releasing a series of postcards which capture
the vision of Food Sovereignty that La Via Campesina had put forth in
1996.
Check them all out here. [8]
To download the communciation kit, follow this link. [9]
YOUR SUPPORT IS VITAL!
YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AUTONOMY OF OUR MOVEMENT
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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.
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Call to Action | 25 Nov | Peasant Women Fighting for their Rights and against Hunger and Violence!
by La Via Campesina
NOVEMBER 25, 2021, IS THE GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION FOR THE ELIMINATION OF
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS UPON ITS MEMBERS AND
ALLIES TO ORGANIZE ACTIVITIES TO RAISE AWARENESS, GIVE VISIBILITY, STAND
IN SOLIDARITY AND DENOUNCE THE ALARMING LEVELS OF VIOLENCE EXPERIENCED
BY WOMEN, CHILDREN AND LGBTQIA* PEOPLE WORLDWIDE; A VIOLENCE THAT HAS
ONLY WORSENED WITH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. SOCIETY CANNOT IGNORE THESE
MULTIPLE FORMS OF VIOLENCE IMPACT MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD'S
POPULATION. WE REQUIRE PUBLIC POLICIES THAT GUARANTEE THEIR RIGHTS AND
ASSURE DIGNIFIED LIFE FOR WOMEN AND COMMUNITIES.
The world is confronting multiple structural crises on the social,
economic and political fronts. Hunger has been on the rise since 2015,
disproportionately affecting women and children. Neo-liberal financial
packages pushed by IMF and other institutions pave the way for further
loss of rights, with high rates for poverty, unemployment, forced
migration, exclusion and shamefully high femicide rates.
For these reasons, we demand that human rights be guaranteed for all.
Ensuring the right to food must be the goal that guides urgent actions
and decision-making processes, and public policies to achieve Food
Sovereignty. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Agroecology are necessary
conditions to achieve food sovereignty. Our collective struggles are to
ensure access to health services and education in rural areas, fair
prices and markets based on solidarity, healthy food for rural and urban
areas, taking care of water and forests. Our primary task is to ensure
no one dies of starvation!
HUNGER AND POVERTY, THE CONSEQUENCE OF A GLOBAL CRISIS
Oxfam had estimated that 11 people die every minute [1] due to hunger,
higher even than the mortality rate for COVID-19!
Hunger and inequality are born of a failed but dominant economic, social
and political system. The crisis of starvation and malnutrition is a
sign of this failure. Let us be reminded that hunger is caused not due
to insufficient production but because of a free-market logic that
treats food as a commodity that only those who can afford it can buy. We
are witnessing a real-life version of "the hunger games", disregarding
the fundamental right to lead a dignified life.
Just as the ECLAC (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean) announced in 2020, extreme poverty in rural areas could reach
42%, a completely unprecedented figure. According to these estimates, 10
million rural inhabitants - almost 6 million of them women- could face
the situation of not having an income enough to cover even the most
basic of nutritional needs.
Despite this gloom, during the pandemic, peasant families, fisherfolk,
indigenous people, rural workers, seasonal workers and farmworkers
working in the fields carried on with their historic task of feeding the
people. They continued doing their productive labour, promoting
agroecology, solidarity and denouncing the systemic failures that
impeded their efforts. They rose to the challenge of meeting the demand
for food from the cities, rural communities, and their own families.
AN URGENT CALL FOR THE RESPECT OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND DIVERSITIES
La Via Campesina demands to ensure all rights of women and peasant
communities urgently. It is impossible to keep producing food while amid
gross inequalities and terrible working conditions, informal labour,
instability, migration, the burden of unpaid housework and care-giving
tasks, aside from the difficulty of having fundamental access to land,
water, management of natural resources, financing, insurance and
training. Peasant women must exercise their fundamental rights and
freedom as established in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
and Other People Working in Rural Areas.
In this sense, we call on everyone to remain on high alert against the
serious setbacks experienced by both women and gender non-conforming
communities in Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Palestine, the Philippines,
Guatemala, Costa Rica, Kurdistan and Mexico. We also salute and
celebrate the struggle and organization of women fighting for their
rights worldwide. It is estimated that 87,000 women were victims of
femicides committed by partners or family members - 137 women every day.
In Latin America, a woman is murdered every two hours simply for being a
woman.
"Today more than ever, Food Sovereignty with Peasant Agroecology is our
most urgent task. Women and members of the LGBTQIA* community are active
on all organizational fronts, but we need our rights ensured to fight
against hunger. In Europe, the price of electricity is surpassing that
of gold while multinationals selling 'green energy' as a solution engage
in extensive land grabbing. They do this to install large industrial
parks with solar panels and huge windmills that produce energy to be
sold at unaffordable prices," states Sonia Vidal from the Galician
Peasant Union, ECVC and the International Women Articulation of La Via
Campesina.
"These companies prevent peasants from having access to lands that
small-scale food producers would use to produce healthy food to fight
against hunger, a need more urgent than ever. Those of us who are
producers see our costs skyrocket. And the healthier the food (produced
using agroecological methods), the more expensive it is to produce and
sell. Food Sovereignty, based on peasant agroecology, is vital to fight
hunger," adds Vidal.
La Via Campesina reaffirms the urgency to protect those who produce
food, women, children, and members of the LGBTQIA* community; to
preserve our ways of life, customs, traditions, and ancestral knowledge;
our territories, food, and food the access to common goods. Societies
should demand from the states to stop corporate capture,
criminalization, plundering and violence; to stop all processes that
make it possible that companies and powerful agents be the ones making
decisions when it comes to food.
To stop all violence and inequality, we need to change the capitalist
system and work towards diverse food systems with Food Sovereignty,
social and environmental justice. We call on everyone from each
territory to continue steadfast in the struggle to STOP all violence
against women, against gender non-conforming people and the working
class.
Join the hundreds of decentralized actions worldwide, watch our Virtual
Festival: "Peasant women fighting for rights, against hunger and
violence!" on November 23 on our social networks.
DOWNLOAD THE COMMUNICATION KIT [2]
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PEASANT WOMEN ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS AND AGAINST HUNGER AND
VIOLENCE!
#StopViolenceAgainstWomen
#FOODSOVEREIGNTYNOW
GLOBALIZE THE STRUGGLE, GLOBALIZE HOPE!
Links:
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[1]
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/9/every-minute-11-people-die-of-hun...
[2] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/F96MY7Zt8keqwKs
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