#16OCT24 | International Day of Action For People’s Food Sovereignty, and Against Transnational Corporations
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#16OCT24 | International Day of Action For People’s Food Sovereignty,
and Against Transnational Corporations
1 October 2024
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*CALL TO ACTION | BAGNOLET, 01 October, 2024*
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We, the global peasantry of diverse rural peoples, Indigenous and
migrant communities, women and children in rural areas, fisherfolk,
pastoralists, and all other small-scale food producers, once again unite
to amplify our struggles for the Food Sovereignty of Our Peoples.
Every day, the world wakes up to news of worsening environmental
degradation across various regions, while corporate elites continue to
profit from the crises they have created. Life is constantly at risk,
and many public policies are being eroded of basic rights like
healthcare, housing, and food, as well as collective and peasant rights.
This has led to the deterioration of social justice and the
monopolization of common goods
The global peasantry, along with other vulnerable populations, faces
constant dispossession of their livelihoods and means of survival. To
add to it, war and military occupation continue to destroy biodiversity
and Food Sovereignty, while spreading terror and claiming lives in
various regions like Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen, and Haiti. The
criminalization and oppression of struggles for land and territory
continues to take the lives of defenders, as seen in countries like
Honduras, the Philippines, Colombia, and Brazil, to name a few.
Global warming, primarily driven by agribusiness, extractivism, and
mining, exacerbates these crises and endangers our peoples’ right to
food. Over two billion people
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that is nearly a third of the world’s population – struggle to access
adequate food regularly. Hunger and severe food insecurity now affects
864 million people
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particularly children and women. Malnutrition is a reality for many, and
more countries are reporting its rise.
*So, what is to be done in a world that is in the grip of a
systemic crisis?*
>From the global peasantry and the global movement for Food Sovereignty,
we firmly believe in the need for a systemic transformation that
protects our symbiotic relationship with Mother Earth, guarantees social
justice, peace, and a comprehensive agrarian reform that ensures we can
live with dignity, free from poverty and hunger.
To start, we *DEMAND* an agroecological transition that safeguards local
food systems and promotes a new trade framework based on the principles
of Food Sovereignty.
We *URGENTLY NEED* public policies that support and implement such a
transition that prioritizes models of peasant production, social, and
solidarity economies.
We also *DEMAND* the protection of peasants and human rights defenders
of our territories against the violence that undermines human rights,
stigmatization, and criminalization, through actions that defend and
reclaim our rights as stipulated in the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas.
Corporate-driven agricultural policies only worsen the climate crisis,
and the emphasis on imported agricultural products is causing growing
despair among the peasantry. We *DEMAND* measures to curb the growing
power of corporations in the political spaces of our countries and in
multilateral forums.
We *CALL FOR* a Binding UN treaty to regulate transnational corporations
(TNCs), end human rights violations, end corporate impunity, and
guarantee access to justice for affected communities, in line with the
UNDROP and other legal instruments.
It is urgent to establish a climate change response system that
*RECOGNIZES* the peasantry as a key actor, particularly peasant women.
However, in many countries and cultures, peasant women and diversities
still lack legal recognition. It is essential to amend laws and public
policies to guarantee property rights, recognizing their historic role
in agriculture.
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*For all these reasons, on this October 16, 2024, the International Day
of Action for People’s Food Sovereignty and Against Transnational
Corporations, we call on our regional and local organizations, allies,
social movements, and collectives to mobilize together in defense of
life, healthy and sovereign food for the people, and the rights of
millions of peasants.*
We demand policy changes that move away from dependence on
carbon-emitting imported agricultural products and corporate-driven
agriculture. We need sustainable agriculture based on Food Sovereignty,
which is why agrarian reforms, as guided by UNDROP, are essential.
A global delegation representing our member organizations will
participate in various activities, including mobilizations to defend
biodiversity at COP 16 in Cali, Colombia, the sessions to mark the
Decade of Family Farming in Rome, the Plenary Session of the Committee
on World Food Security and so forth. We will also be joining and
supporting the preparations for the /3rd Nyéléni Global Forum for Food
Sovereignty, Global Justice, and Systemic Change/ – planned for 2025.
We appeal to you to join these mobilizations and activities, support us,
and help amplify our voices.
Let’s Do It Together!
Throughout October, we invite you to self-organize and share your local
actions for Food Sovereignty with us. We also invite you to build
alliances with our national and regional organizations and echo their
struggles. We will do this by building unity from our diversity.
*/For Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty! Enough of Corporate Power and
Impunity in Our Territories!/*
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