Here's to an unwavering and radically transformative 2024!
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*8th International Conference | Edition #1*
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*This is the first in a series of special issues we will be bringing you
with updates from the recently concluded 8th International Conference of
La Via Campesina in Bogota, Colombia.* This issue highlights the
declarations from the organic spaces of the global peasant movement
issued during our conference, outlining the future direction of our
common struggles.
May the approaching year find us united, collectively forging a joyful
rebellion and prosperous resistance. With the hope that each joint
effort translates into significant progress toward our shared goals, we
will persist in our struggle alongside Peasant Agroecology, Peasant and
Popular Feminism, and Peasant Rights. Strengthening food sovereignty, we
will continue contributing to cooling the planet to ensure a future
where dignity and peace with social justice are not mere aspirations but
lived realities.
*Here's to an unwavering and radically transformative 2024!*
*Bogotá Declaration | La Via Campesina | #8ConfLVC*
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More than 400 delegates of La Via Campesina, representing 185
organizations and movements in 83 countries, together with allies, are
gathered in Bogotá, Colombia to celebrate our 8th International
Conference from the 1st to the 8th of December of 2023.
We, the peasants, rural workers, landless, indigenous peoples,
pastoralists, artisanal fisherfolk, forest dwellers, rural women, youth
and diversities and other peoples who work in the countryside around the
world and united within La Via Campesina, declare that/*“Faced with
global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for
humanity!”*/ towards a just and decent food system for all, recognizing
peoples’ needs, respecting nature, putting people before profit and
resisting corporate capture.. *READ MORE*
<https://viacampesina.org/en/viiith-international-conference-la-via-campesin…>
*Youth Articulation's Declaration | La Via Campesina *
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We commit to construct a future grounded in food sovereignty and
agroecology as a sustainable agrifood system, social movement, a popular
knowledge and a way of life. We acknowledge our role and responsibility
to preserve ancestral wisdom and movement knowledge passed down by our
elders. We reaffirm our commitment to work shoulder to shoulder with the
generations that came before us. Their struggles and effort laid the
foundation to ensure intergenerational continuity of our movement. *READ
MORE*
<https://viacampesina.org/en/peasant-youth-unveils-vision-5th-international-…>
*Declaration of the Women's Articulation | La Via Campesina *
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The women’s assemblies of La Vía Campesina are not only a means of
training and exchange but also of building an agenda, legitimizing our
actions, and validating the fundamental role we have in the construction
of Food Sovereignty, of our movement and societies of peace with social
justice. Guaranteeing peasant rights means guaranteeing the rights of
rural women!
The struggle and organization in these 30 years of La Via Campesina as a
political and pedagogical tool have also taught us that we cannot build
the present without knowing the past. Because of that, we recognize all
the seeds that rebellious women left us, invisible but organized, for
justice and dignity. We welcome the fire lit in us by the women who
preceded us, our ancestors and sisters who opened the path of struggle
for us. *READ MORE*
<https://viacampesina.org/en/declaration-of-the-6th-international-womens-ass…>
*1st International Meeting of Diversities and Supporters*
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Sowing the seed of revolutionary love and confronting everyday hatred is
a permanent task. Agroecology is diversity and as such we are part of
the principles we defend. We must strengthen the grassroots work; adding
colors to the political formation, and to the autonomous values to
popular organization — against patriarchal violence. We must advance the
actions of the collective in the fight for the affirmation of human
rights, of our existence, of our survival, not only as individuals but
as a collective, and of the existence of our families, our communities
and colleagues who are in the same condition of not having access to
land and other natural goods, work, housing or adequate food. Diversity
is at the heart of Food Sovereignty, in all territories! With
Diversities there is revolution! *READ MORE*
<https://viacampesina.org/en/declaration-of-the-1st-international-meeting-of…>
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