Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity | Call to Action #16Oct2023
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Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future
for humanity | Call to Action #16Oct2023
25 September 2023 Food Sovereignty
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Transnational Companies and Agribusiness
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*Global Call to Action for the International Day of Action for Peoples’
Food Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations*
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This October 16, 2023, we, the peasants of the world, once again call to
commemorate the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food
Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations. On this day, the global
movement for Food Sovereignty denounces the control of food systems in
the hands of agribusiness transnationals, a global corporate network
that is intensifying the hunger of millions of people in the world, as
well as the massification of malnutrition as a chronic disease of the
new generations.
It is unacceptable that more and more people in the world are going
hungry and that food insecurity is intensifying, affecting one third of
the world’s population. The global crises and the great migratory
displacements that affect millions of people and their peoples are
concentrated in a scenario of climate and environmental crisis that
affects the whole of humanity.
We are experiencing an unprecedented food crisis. Our agricultural
production, seeds, land, and territories are being monopolized; our
peasant rights to income and a dignified life, to protest, and to the
autonomy of our peoples are being violated. We are facing an
unprecedented food crisis intertwined with the climate crisis, wars,
corruption, media control, institutional racism, and neo-fascism. At the
same time, we, the peasants, continue to be criminalized, displaced, and
see our livelihoods and subsistence taken away.
We mobilize in the face of global crises.
This year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) is hosting the World Food Forum from October 16-20, and we are
concerned that large corporations continue to capture this space for
their own interests.
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For this reason, together with our allies, on October 16, we will
mobilize once again to denounce the false solutions that corporate
power, in complicity with many governments, is promoting and imposing to
apparently solve these crises. Once more, we say no to agribusiness! No
more false solutions! Without Food Sovereignty, we will not be able to
ensure a future for humanity!
This year, we also celebrate 27 years of our organized struggle for Food
Sovereignty, a struggle that has now diversified and taken shape from
the local level to form a powerful global movement. *We will carry all
the experiences and reflections from this journey to our 8th
International Conference
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December in Bogota, Colombia. During the conference, we will dedicate an
important moment to discuss our progress and the lessons learned over
these nearly three decades of mobilizations.
We face the enormous challenge of*advancing the implementation of
UNDROP, building an alternative global trade framework* that puts an end
to the voracity of Free Trade Agreements and the WTO, and consolidating
an effective binding treaty against transnational corporations to
protect the collective and individual labor agreements of rural
workers.**Additionally, we aim to safeguard the territorial,
environmental, community, production, and basic services rights of
communities in areas affected by transnationals. Furthermore, we must
continue to promote *Peasant Agroecology and Popular Peasant Feminism
*as crucial political tools within our movement for our peoples.
We are peasants, women, youth, rural diversities, indigenous peoples,
fisherfolk, migrants, rural workers, and a diverse group of individuals
who want Food Sovereignty to be recognized as a fundamental right,
ensuring peace and social justice for our communities.
Join our actions happening all over the world:
* Organize with your neighborhood, community, or local organization to
showcase the immense value and legacy of the struggle for Food
Sovereignty.
* Arrange events and participate in agroecological fairs where the
work of local peasants is celebrated, and their challenges are
discussed.
* Additionally, join our virtual action this #16Oct23 by capturing and
sending a photo of your action along with our slogan, “Facing global
crises, we build Food Sovereignty to secure a future for humanity.”
Tag us on social media or send your photos and/or videos to
*communications(a)viacampesina.org*
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Download and share our communication kit, videos, and publications
during this day of mobilizations.
*Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a
future for humanity!*
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Press release : LVC will develop an alternative framework for global trade in agriculture
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*Press release : LVC will develop an alternative framework for global
trade in agriculture*
/La Via Campesina commemorates the International Day of Action Against
the WTO and Free Trade agreements and announces that the endeavor to
construct an alternative trade framework based on food sovereignty/ /and
solidarity among peoples, will commence in 2023 during the 8th
International Conference in Bogota, scheduled for this December. This
year coincides with the 20-year anniversary of the tragic passing of Lee
Kyung Hae, who sacrificed his life outside the Ministerial meeting site
in Cancun, Mexico./
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*08 September 2023 | Bagnolet: *The World Trade Organization (WTO) has
illustrated to the world how neoliberalism, privatization, deregulation,
and a capitalist free-market economy can marginalize, exploit and
dispossess the world’s most vulnerable communities – including peasants,
indigenous populations, and rural and urban workers. Despite nearly
three decades of existence, none of its promises have stood the test of
time. Today, we inhabit a world plagued by severe inequality, poverty,
patriarchy, hunger, violence, authoritarianism, chauvinism, and
conflicts. To compound matters, a worsening climate crisis has led to
unprecedented and catastrophic weather events that devastate our farms,
forests, rivers, and oceans, gravely imperiling food sovereignty of our
peoples.
This is the grim legacy the WTO has bequeathed us in its nearly
thirty-year tenure.
Even the wealthiest countries and their corporations now acknowledge
that the World Trade Organization teeters in a state of uncertainty.
However, driven by their vested interests to safeguard their
establishments and wealth, they employ various strategies to sustain
neoliberalism – with or without the WTO. A few instances of these
tactics include: secretive negotiations of bilateral and multilateral
free trade agreements to ensure business as usual; the establishment of
multi-stakeholder entities within the UN that deliberately sideline
peasants and rural communities, while affording corporate lobbies
unrestricted influence – masking their actions with talk of
sustainability and promoting a dystopian vision of ‘farming without
farmers’; substantial investments in marketing campaigns and biased
research aimed at painting a rosy picture of a world where poverty,
hunger, and inequality are purportedly disappearing.
Yet, as peasants who toil relentlessly in the fields to feed the world,
our lived experiences are immune to their paid propaganda. We witness
the appropriation and violation of our soil, biodiversity, and seeds by
those in power. We observe how speculative trading, orchestrated by
asset management firms, drives up food prices. We perceive how pandemic
or conflict-induced supply disruptions can dismantle their global food
supply chains in mere days. Despite these challenges, agribusiness
giants continue to amass massive profits and distribute hefty CEO
bonuses, while many struggle to afford three meals a day.
*The evidence is as palpable as the air we breathe – the global trade
system is fractured.*
Should we, the people, desire a positive transformation, superficial
alterations or an imagined “reform” of the WTO will not suffice. The
remedy lies in a complete overhaul and the construction of a new global
trade framework. This framework must honor countries’ food sovereignty,
respect biodiversity, and uphold the rights of peasants and other rural
and urban workers. It should be underpinned by values of solidarity,
cooperation, people-to-people exchange, and internationalism, with the
ability to dismantle the economic, political, social, and cultural
dominance of select global north countries. It must stand as an
anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal and pro-social
justice, pro-feminist framework.
*La Via Campesina is embarking on this endeavor in 2023,* coinciding
with the 20-year commemoration of Lee Kyung Hae’s sacrifice. The
peasants, small-scale food producers, wage and migrant workers and
indigenous communities of La Via Campesina will draft this framework,
leveraging our collective knowledge of agriculture and food trade to
ensure no one goes hungry.
This initiative serves as a tribute to Lee’s memory, as we strive to
construct an alternative trade order for the world. In 2022, we appealed
to global south nations for assistance in building this new framework,
aiming for equitable and fair global trade founded on the principles of
communitarianism and solidarity. We continue to implore governments
worldwide to stand with us in this endeavor.
*At the 8th International Conference of La Via Campesina in Bogota,
Colombia*, peasants from over 80 nations will convene to collaboratively
develop this framework. Just as we constructed the UN Declaration for
the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas through
years of patient negotiation and dedication, we will similarly construct
this trade framework. This serves as our homage to Lee, whose life and
struggle encapsulate the daily battles of peasants everywhere.
*We are all Lee! A new trade framework is urgent and vital!*
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*Also read:* La Via Campesina responds to the WTO’s purported plans to
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