Nyéléni Newsletter: Grassroots solutions to the global food crisis
by La Via Campesina
NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER NO 51 – GRASSROOTS SOLUTIONS TO THE GLOBAL FOOD
CRISIS
In 2008, numerous experts -- from peasants to policy makers - warned of
a "perfect storm" of crises in the industrial food system. Our movements
had already been raising the alarm about growing corporate control,
financialization of food, resource grabbing, economic injustice, and
destruction of the territories of small-scale food producers by large
scale commodity agriculture, deeply dependant on fossil fuels and other
mined inputs. Fifteen years later we see that crises are a recurrent
phenomenon in the capitalist food system. Intensifying environmental
impacts, resource wars and conflicts, rising debt, structural injustices
and inequalities are compounding the effects on our peoples.
Food sovereignty remains our answer to the food crisis. Now more than
ever our communities and countries need to focus on agroecological food
production. As this edition shows, we have a multitude of praxis and
political proposals for solutions, but we need to build our power to
fight the extractive and profit driven corporations from overtaking our
food system. The food crisis is one aspect of deeper drivers that are
causing overlapping crises of ecological destruction, the re-enforced
rise of patriarchy, and increasing criminalisation of rights defenders s
in collusion with capital, who are pervading every aspect of our lives
from food to social engagements and our interactions with nature.
Many movements have made common cause to challenge the drivers of these
multiple, interconnected crises, including demands for climate justice,
an end to fossil fuels with responsibility lying first within the
historically polluting developed nations and then with elite consumers
everywhere, cancellations of illegitimate debt, and rescinding unjust
trade investment and tax regimes. Feminist movements are showing us the
path towards economies of life and care, intersectional justice and
building political power. Anti-racist, decolonial, peace and all
anti-oppression movements are showing us new imaginaries of community,
reminding us of our ancient practices of togetherness as peasants,
women, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fishers and workers, and the
urgency of solidarity with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Knowing that we must build and strengthen our movements from the ground
up, and find cohesion across all regions and peoples facing injustice,
we are convening the Nyéléni process 2021 - 2025 to provide spaces for
coming together. We invite all movements to join us.
Food Sovereignty now!
_AFSA, Focus on the Global South and FoEI_
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17 April – International Day of Peasant Struggles | Call to Action
by La Via Campesina
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17 April – International Day of Peasant Struggles | Call to Action
17 March 2023 Food Sovereignty
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La Via Campesina Call to Action | 17 March 2023 | Bagnolet:
*Resist repression! Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty
to ensure a future for humanity!*
*Call for Global Solidarity Actions*
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The International Day of Peasant Struggles is commemorated by La Via
Campesina every year on 17 April to remember the Eldorado do Carajás
massacre in 1996, where the State machinery, in cohorts with
agribusiness interests, murdered 19 peasants who were defending their
right to land. On this day, we also highlight and denounce the continued
criminalization, oppression, and repression of peasants, workers,
migrants, and indigenous people communities worldwide.
*Our lives are at risk and so is the future of humanity*
In the past few months alone, social movements in Brazil, Palestine,
Paraguay, Colombia, Mali, Ecuador, France, Spain, Thailand, Sri Lanka,
Indonesia, South Korea, Kenya, Canada, Haiti, Guatemala and Peru have
alerted the world about the serious violations of the rights of the
peasant and rural communities.
Hunger is also violence. The pandemic and ongoing conflicts have only
accentuated hunger. All these so-called crises are an indictment of the
dominant model of capitalism that exists today. Our territories, whose
climate and biodiversity are continuously destroyed as capitalist
interests impose new and increasingly dangerous technologies without any
debate, consultation, or public participation, threaten every life
system worldwide. Political and social instability is widespread as a
result of systematic assassinations, massacres, forced disappearances,
high rates of femicide, imprisonment, and arbitrary detention,
intimidation, harassment, and threats, prosecution of defenders of
territories, forced migration, and wars against ordinary people.
*This 17th April, more than ever, we reaffirm that our fight is part of
the defense of human rights and life as stated in the United Nations
Declaration of the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in the
Rural Areas (UNDROP)*. As capital advances over territories that until
recently were considered “marginal”, peasants, indigenous peoples, and
other rural inhabitants represent the main frontier of resistance
against the hydro-agro-extractivism of transnational mega-corporations.
La Via Campesina is an expression of this collective action and
resistance. This year, as our global movement marks its 30th
anniversary, we are stepping up the pressure to build an alternative
systemic model that guarantees social justice.
*The 17th April is, therefore, a moment to reaffirm our concrete
proposals. We will build a better society where our diverse societies
realize their food sovereignty through the practice of peasant
agroecology.* We will continue to defend our rights using UNDROP and
other international instruments. We will build better societies with
justice. Our local food production, self-determination with dignity,
peace, popular peasant feminism, and people’s sovereignty are possible
only with these tools. There is no future without food sovereignty!
*Our call towards the 8th International Conference*
*In November this year, La Via Campesina will convene its 8th
International Conference in Nicaragua.* At this International
Conference, we will bring together the diverse proposals that emerge
from our 182 member organizations in 81 countries. We will learn from a
diverse set of experiences that our peasant and indigenous communities
have already put into practice. We will exchange and build a collective
vision for the future based on these existing alternatives that are
being practiced in our communities.
And as we gather our proposals towards this important event, our
rallying call to unite and build a new society is well expressed in the
8^th Conference slogan: *“Faced with the Global Crises, we build Food
Sovereignty to ensure a Future for Humanity!”*
The precondition for such a future is an immediate and unconditional end
to the ongoing criminalization and persecution of peasant movements and
their leaders. April is our moment to collectively denounce this
persecution, to stand up united against the forces that oppress us.
*This call is for all members of La Via Campesina to gather together
this April and make ourselves seen and heard. Here is how we can do it:*
* *Organize public demonstrations and forums* against the ongoing acts
of criminalization in your territories. We are releasing a poster
for you to adapt it, translate it, and share it in our communities.
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* *Share the news and updates from these actions on social media*
* Use the hashtags *#PeasantResistance* *#StopKillingUs
#StopTheRepression*, and actively share photos, videos, and posters
of your public actions, forums, and meetings.
* Express our collective intent to exist, survive, and build a new
society. Take our official slogan of the 8^th Conference: *“Faced
with the Global Crises, we build Food Sovereignty to ensure a Future
for Humanity!*” Transmit it, translate it, and adapt it through
communication materials, press statements, and public actions.
* Use the hashtag *#8ConfLVC* to highlight our efforts towards the 8th
International Conference.
* A promotional video for our upcoming 8th International Conference –
our moment to gather and build our alternatives – will be released
on Monday the 20th.
* Follow the La Via Campesina website and social media handles for
videos and more! We will also replug a series of illustrated
educational materials on UNDROP popular educational materials,
Peasant Seeds, and Peasant Feminism.
* Email the details of your actions and events to
communications(a)viacampesina.org We will be adding the details to a
global map that plots all solidarity actions.
*Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future
for humanity!*
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