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#08March2020: La Via Campesina releases illustrations amplifying the voices and demands of rural women
by La Via Campesina 10 Mar '20

10 Mar '20

08 MARCH 2020: LA VIA CAMPESINA RELEASES ILLUSTRATIONS AMPLIFYING THE VOICES AND DEMANDS OF RURAL WOMEN 9 MARCH 2020 CAMPAIGN TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN [1], PEASANTS' RIGHTS [2], WOMEN [3] On the occasion of the International Day of Women, La Via Campesina has launched a series of illustrations under the banner Peasant and Rural Women with Rights. Ten visually powerful sketches illustrated by Artist Carlos Julio from Argentina explore the role played by peasant women in food production. They also amplify the voices of rural women and reasserts their demands for an equal, dignified life. This work takes its inspiration from the 'UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas' (UNDROP), which was officially adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018. For over a decade, rural and indigenous communities had patiently negotiated for a global Declaration of this kind. The Declaration promotes the rights of millions of small-scale food producers, who feed nearly seventy per-cent of the world's population despite having access to barely a quarter of the world's arable land. These illustrations particularly seek to highlight the rights of rural peasant women as cited in the Declaration - by promoting equal ownership over territories and resources; calling for better healthcare systems in rural areas and better infrastructure and education facilities; echoing the demands for fair wages; highlighting the immense contribution made by women workers and peasants in peasant food production. These works of art are also an expression of resistance against patriarchy and all forms of violence against women and people of diverse gender. These illustrations also call for an end to the use of toxic agrochemicals in the fields, which poses huge health risks to food producers. Through these sketches, La Via Campesina once again calls for the promotion of the rights of people to produce and consume healthy and locally produced food. It also aims to promote training and mobilisation actions for our member organizations as well as for allied organizations and civil society on the issue. This provides necessary elements for the development of public policies with dignity and social justice. During the year, La Via Campesina will launch more such materials that would help popularise the contents of the Declaration among rural communities. To download the illustrations, please click here. [4] A PDF version of the illustrations are also available here [5] Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/patriachy/campaign… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/human-rights/ [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/who-are-we/women/ [4] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/ywEi3zjnsoLZssz [5] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/ywEi3zjnsoLZssz#pdfviewer

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La Via Campesina denounces UN Special Envoy for the UN Food Systems Summit for diminishing peasants and their rights
by La Via Campesina 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

LA VIA CAMPESINA DENOUNCES UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT FOR DIMINISHING PEASANTS AND THEIR RIGHTS In December 2019, it was officially announced that the UN Headquarters in New York will host a Food Systems Summit in 2021. The Summit aims to maximize the benefits of a food systems approach across the entire 2030 Agenda, meet the challenges of climate change, make food systems inclusive, and support sustainable peace. Since the announcement, many peasant organizations, civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have expressed concern on the lack of transparency in the process leading to the Summit, including the appointment of Ms. Agnes Kalibata, the current President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), as UN Special Envoy for the Summit. It is further apparent that the process is following through without the involvement of all concerned UN member states. After meeting Ms. Kalibata during the IFAD Farmers' Forum (FAFO 2020), we remain deeply concerned regarding the legitimacy and process of the 2021 Food Systems Summit and about the approach of the UN Special Envoy. Although we recognize and appreciate the UN Special Envoy's presence in the FAFO to hear the concerns of small-scale food producers, we regret to report that several red flags were raised in the session. First of all, we were shocked by her lack of awareness of the political mandate and significance of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) that was promoted by LVC and small-scale producers' organizations and negotiated by LVC and small-scale producers' organizations over the course of nearly two decades and adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2018. La Via Campesina delegate Jordan Treakle from the National Family Farm Coalition, representing North America, asked Ms. Kalibata "How will the World Food System Summit assure that UNDROP, and its political mandate promoting a rights-based approach, be integral to the Summit's focus and outcomes?" Ms. Kalibata's response was "it's an interesting question… Peasant? What is a peasant? What is peasant rights? Because I don't understand what that means to be honest with you." The UN Special Envoy doubled down on this statement later in the discussion, affirming that she does not recognize "peasants" as a constituency, despite the many decades of LVC and allies advocating for the rights of food producers (farmers, fisherfolks, pastoralists, and food workers) under this banner. "I completely appreciate what you do and I'm going to make sure that gets heard. I just wanted to underscore (…) what I said earlier: the word that was used is not how I look at farmers ( …) Farmers are farmers, it's a business for us, we don't want charity, we don't want to be pitied, we don't want anything like that. We see ourselves as business people. So I'm sorry if the word means something else to you, to me it means something that I grew up not appreciating (…)"- said she. Ms Kalibata also affirmed she "is not working for the UN", raising further our concerns about her impartiality, and willingness to separate her agribusiness background from this UN Special Envoy role. Several participants reacted to Ms Kalibata's discourse. Elizabeth Mpofu, General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, said "We are urgently requesting for a strong commitment to transparency by those involved in the Summit planning. And most critically, we call on Rome-based Agencies, member states, and the Special Envoy, to ensure that Civil Society Organizations and peasants have the possibility to be fully and equally involved in all stages of the organization of the Summit and have their voice heard." The role of the UN Special Envoy requires a neutral and unbiased approach to the United Nations system, and existing UN processes such as the Committee on World Food Security, that will work to build bridges and consensus across a range of food system constituencies to ensure that the voices of food producers are heard and respected. The UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and FAO should be leading the process towards the Food Systems Summit due to their mandate of ending hunger and malnutrition. Although the Special Envoy expressed several times during the meeting promises of inclusiveness and underlined that she has just started her mission, the process of organizing the Summit and the fact that right holders and constituencies will have a seat at the table, remains unclear. Therefore, we reiterate our call to ensure that the civil society and, in particular, the peasants have a clear, equal and influential role in shaping all phases of the Food Systems Summit. As Via Campesina, we urge a Food Systems Summit which is focused on peasants and other small-scale food producers and to their local and territorial markets that provide the 80% of the food production in the world. Instead of representing the interests of the corporate sector which is aggravating the food systems crisis. Given the fact that Mrs Kalibata is clearly representing corporate sector interests, we demand the UN to revoke Mrs. Kalibata's appointment and appoint a special envoy who indeed represents the needs and rights of peasants and other small scale food producers and those who are most affected by hunger. ------------------------- _For media enquiries, contact lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org_

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#8March2020: Call for Solidarity action!
by La Via Campesina 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

HARARE: This 08th March, the International Day of Women, La Via Campesina joins in solidarity and struggle with millions of peasants, workers, migrants, indigenous people, fishers, pastoralists, waged agricultural workers, housekeepers and people of all diversity among the rural and the urban working class, as well as other organized sectors, to denounce the capitalist and patriarchal system and its constant oppression of women and of our peoples. We condemn this perverse system that hides behind the malicious facade of conservative and authoritarian neoliberalism, exacerbating workers' precariousness, eroding our rights, eliminating public policy, and criminalizing and killing those who resist. Massive women's mobilizations on a global scale, such as the World Women Strike, #8M, Vivas nos queremos, as well as other actions and expressions of struggle confirm the urgency behind the demand to stop all forms of violence and oppression that women suffer throughout the world. AS LA VIA CAMPESINA, we raise our fist together with our landless sisters in their 1st National Women's Meeting to be held on March 5th to 8th in Brazil. We also salute our Zapatista comrades, with whom we shared the 2nd Meeting of Women in the Struggle in December 2019 and the comrades of Women's March Global who are organizing their 5th Action "We resist to live, we march to transform!" We stand with the Kurdish and Palestine women; with the women in the struggle in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Spain, Turkey, Bolivia; with the women who survive under situations of structural violence, conservatism and authoritarianism, war, occupation, dispossession, extractivist policies and racist, xenophobic and homophobic narratives that threaten the lives of women of all ages. We also condemn "patriarchal States" that strengthen and naturalize violence against women. Instead of ensuring rights, in both rural and urban areas, they deny justice and reparations, fostering widespread impunity of the perpetrators. It is distressing to hear presidential declarations such as those of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Lenin Moreno in Ecuador trivializing rape and harassment; denying facts, such as the elevated rates of underage pregnancies from rape and feminicides when the numbers worldwide are alarming and alert to a pandemic. At the same time, they promote policies in favour of transnational companies creating more inequality, poverty and increasing the concentration of wealth in few hands. As peasant women, this 08th March, we also stand in rejection of the industrial farming model and its system of death that everyday poisons our land, and pose serious health risks to the women who work in the fields and to the people who consume such food. WE DEMAND the enforcement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants, which guarantees the right to land, to fair prices, to a production free of toxic agrochemicals and which acknowledges the essential role of peasants in the production of healthy food and as guardians of the common goods by promoting agroecology as the path towards Food Sovereignty and cooling down the planet. On this day, we also reaffirm our commitment to promote Popular Peasant Feminism. It is the path we have taken as a movement, born of the heat of the struggles for the defense of common goods, against imperialism, colonialism and patriarchy as the pillars that uphold a capitalist system of death and destruction, through mining mega-projects and agribusiness, responsible of the violence and dispossession suffered by the women and peoples of the world. _PEASANT AND RURAL WOMEN AWAKE AND ORGANIZED FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND A DIGNIFIED LIFE! AGAINST VIOLENCE AND AGRIBUSINESS!_ ------------------------- MOBILIZE! During the week of 08th March, as La Via Campesina we are organizing decentralized actions in different countries and continents. Let's all speak out together for fairer societies and call for an end to all forms of violence and oppression against women! We are awake and in struggle, both in the countryside and in cities. It is imperative to give visibility to this struggle and raise awareness worldwide. Send your posters, photos, videos, event plans and press releases to LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG. Click here to download [1] poster, comic and other social media content. Links: ------ [1] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/XQLfk9RSzirDAKt

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First Declaration: La Via Campesina International Solidarity Mission in Venezuela
by La Via Campesina 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

FIRST DECLARATION: LA VIA CAMPESINA INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MISSION IN VENEZUELA 6 FEBRUARY 2020 FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [1], INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY [2], PEASANTS' RIGHTS [3] Caracas, January 31st, 2020 The delegation of La Via Campesina with representatives from Europe, North America, South America and Central America, together with popular journalists from Africa and South America, announce to the national and international public that we have concluded the 1st International Solidarity Mission with Venezuela, held between January 20th and 27th in several regions of the country, among them the states of Lara, Portuguesa, Barinas and Apure. La Via Campesina is a movement that brings together peasant organizations of all five continents, active in the struggles for food sovereignty and defending the rights of the peoples in the face of unbridled capitalism and imperialism, predators of life on the planet. In this sense, the goal of the Solidarity Mission in Venezuela was to get to know in-depth, together with organized collectives, the consequences and impacts caused by the United States and European blockade against the Venezuelan people. The Mission, a milestone for La Via Campesina, has allowed us to see the high level of organization in the territories of the National Peasant Front Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ, by its acronym in Spanish), part of the Revolutionary Movement Bolivar y Zamora (CRBZ) and member of La Via Campesina. These organizations enabled meetings with different men and women responsible for driving and upholding the process of the Bolivarian Revolution in Defense of National Sovereignty. The Mission also had the opportunity to delve into a thorough exploration of the organizations of the people's Bolivarian resistance. This was possible thanks to exchanges with men and women comrades of the commune "El Maizal" (in the states of Lara and Portuguesa), with the Cooperative Association "Los Colonos" and the University Latin American Institute of Agroecology (IALA) "Paulo Freire", the socialist agro-touristic commune "Pie de Monte Andino", the Peasant Settlement "Victor Ojeda" (of the state of Barinas) and the Communal Peasant City "Simon Bolivar" (in the state of Apure). The above-mentioned experiences are part of the National Production Alliance (ANP), an FNCEZ-CRBZ initiative to promote food productivity and sovereignty in the communities. In each of the experiences visited we were able to verify the high level of awareness of the Venezuelan people, their sense of dignity, sovereignty and autonomy. These characteristics were also present in the National Bolivarian Militia, which is marked by a strong peasant component and integrates millions of people. We also witnessed the organizational dynamics and the productive work peasants have managed to develop. This work is one of the actions of resistance to the economic blockade that has an impact on the areas of food and overall human development. The rescue and further development of Peasant Agriculture in a path towards Agroecology and Food Sovereignty gain a special relevance given the current context. In addition, we value and salute the appreciation of local organizations awarded to the "IALA Paulo Freire" due to its contribution in knowledge exchange and dialogue related to peasant agriculture aimed at recovering the wisdom of the peoples about ways production free of toxic agro-chemicals. This institute of political agroecological and internationalist education is the main reference in Latin America. It was founded thanks to the sensibility of the Venezuelan Bolivarian Government in the early 2000s. The current focus is on finding a way to face the crisis and succeed in supplying peasant families and people's markets, as well as ensuring the necessary food for education facilities through the connection with the national government. La Via Campesina reaffirms its solidarity with the FNCEZ of the CRBZ and the Venezuelan peasantry as a whole. We are certain that this period of crisis, largely due to the #US blockade, will come to an end and that Venezuela will be able to make its own decisions regarding its economic and human development in full sovereignty and with utmost dignity. _Globalize the struggle, globalize hope!_ Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/food-sovereignty-and-t… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/international-solidari… [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/human-rights/

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Watch > Globalize Hope (1h 13 mins): New film on the history of La Via Campesina
by La Via Campesina 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

JANUARY 2020 | LA VIA CAMPESINA Watch the film "Globilize Hope" [1] SYNOPSIS LA VIA CAMPESINA is an international movement that brings together millions of peasants, landless workers, indigenous peoples and migrants - comprising women, men, youth and diverse identities - from all over the world. The movement brings them together under its banner of comprehensive and popular agrarian reform and food sovereignty. It is a collective expression of the struggle for recognition, legitimacy and dignity of peasant communities and rural people, in a neo- liberal world that is destroying them. In recent years, globalization and the expansion of agribusiness and monocultural practices have destroyed tens of millions of small farms across the continents. Peasants and small scale food producers now have access to only 25% of the world's agricultural land. Despite these odds, peasant and rural communities continue to be the world's major food producers, providing for an estimated 80% of the food needs in non-industrialized countries. Meanwhile, many governments are increasingly allowing the World Trade Organization (WTO ) and other free trade agreements (FTAs) to govern their national agricultural and food policies. As a result, peasant agriculture finds itself in competition with low-priced imported foodstuffs. The survival of the peasants, who represent almost half of the world's population, is therefore threatened. The consequences for healthy food systems and for humanity itself are dire. Peasant agriculture carries within itself the solutions that humanity needs to face the challenges of the future. Therefore its defense and the defense of the rights of peasants is essential. This film chronicles how La Via Campesina was born more than 28 years ago, as an alternative that brings together struggles, dreams and challenges to build solidarity and secure our collective human future. IMPORTANT NOTE: YOU CAN SELECT ENGLISH, FRENCH OR SPANISH SUBTITLES BY CLICKING ON THE "CC" BUTTON ON THE VIMEO PLAYER [1]. Watch the film "Globilize Hope" [1] [2] [3] [4] _Copyright (c) 2020 La Via Campesina, All rights reserved._ lvc équipe de communication - français OUR MAILING ADDRESS IS: La Via Campesina 197A Smuts Road Prospect Waterfalls Zimbabwe Add us to your address book [5] Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences [6] or unsubscribe from this list [7]. [8] Links: ------ [1] https://vimeo.com/385951418 [2] http://www.twitter.com/ [3] http://www.facebook.com [4] http://mailchimp.com [5] https://viacampesina.us13.list-manage.com/vcard?u=89bbab017155e4204481ee9c3… [6] https://viacampesina.us13.list-manage.com/profile?u=89bbab017155e4204481ee9… [7] https://viacampesina.us13.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=89bbab017155e420448… [8] http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&amp…

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La Via Campesina in Venezuela: a mission for the brotherhood, solidarity and truth of the people
by La Via Campesina 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

LA VIA CAMPESINA IN VENEZUELA: A MISSION FOR THE BROTHERHOOD, SOLIDARITY AND TRUTH OF THE PEOPLE 20 JANUARY 2020 FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [1], INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY [2] (Harare, January 17, 2020) Overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution is one of the US government's plans to regain its control, dominance and oppression of Latin America. Today, Venezuela is the target of a hybrid and multidimensional (economic, financial, diplomatic, media and military) aggression, which is seriously impacting the life of the country and its people. This offensive has benefitted from the support of governments serving the interests of the United States and of stateless and elitist internal political forces. This is the context in which La Via Campesina's First International Mission of Solidarity with Venezuela will take place from January 20 to 27, 2020. This mission seeks to show the effects of the blockade and shed light on the numerous popular organization resistance experiences. The Mission is organized together with the Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current and the Ezequiel Zamora National Peasant Front, a local member of the movement. In recent years, in the midst of extreme difficulties, the Venezuelan people have resisted and stood strong, fighting against adversity, building organizational, solidarity and productive alternatives and striving to strengthen Food Sovereignty in their territories. Zuleima Vergel of the Political Coordination of the FNCEZ stressed that "the institutional firmness of the Bolivarian Government and the Venezuelan State in defending democracy and sovereignty, the unity of the patriotic political forces, the civil and military unity, as well as the high consciousness and political clarity of the Venezuelan people, have all been key factors to defeat the US-led plans and conspiracies against Venezuela". In Venezuela's extended battle for sovereignty, democracy and peace, decisive and effective international solidarity have played a prominent role. La Via Campesina has been instrumental in denouncing US interference and blockade. In addition, most of the planet has rejected systematic blockade and aggression against Venezuela. International and multilateral organizations, numerous governments throughout the world as well as social organizations have demonstrated their solidarity. These are all organized expressions of people who are fighting for their rights and the construction of a world freed from hegemony and imperialism, a world of justice, respect and equality. In this sense, the La Via Campesina Mission aims at getting to better understand Venezuela's reality, the impact of the economic and financial blockade imposed by the United States and its effects on peoples' lives. The Mission will also allow us to get a closer look at the other side of this reality: solidarity, the capacity of resistance and the alternatives that popular movements and organizations have been able to build as a response to the aggression and the crisis. The La Via Campesina delegation participating in this Venezuela solidarity mission is made up of representatives of the National Association of Rural and Indigenous Women, ANAMURI [3] of Chile, the Association of Rural Workers, ATC [4] of Nicaragua, The Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF) from the USA and the Coordination of Farmer and Rancher Organizations (COAG- [5]ECVC [6]) from Spain. Their tour will allow them to learn about the different productive, community and popular solidarity experiences in the states of Lara, Barinas and Apure, as well as meet and exchange with Venezuelan social and political organizations. The delegation will also include a Communications Collective made up of independent journalists and alternative media such as Alba TV [7] and Radio Mundo Real [8]. The First International La Via Campesina Mission of Solidarity of with Venezuela also aims to be a strong example of how the people can contribute in a concrete way to the necessary construction of a multi-centred and multipolar world. It is an example of how people are able to break Imperialism's media and political siege. Likewise, with this action, La Via Campesina maintains that close, fraternal and solidarity events such as this Mission are the way to strengthen the unity of the peoples of the world in building a world of freedom, justice and equality. "Thus, by building bridges, creating ties and opening paths, we will make the truth of the peoples prevail over the lies and manipulations of the planet's economic and political elites in their eagerness to keep us subjugated and subdued," concluded Nury Martínez of the Political Commission of the Cloc--Via Campesina South America. PRESS CONTACTS: Eduardo Viloria--Local Communication Team (SP) Viviana Rojas--LVC Communication Team (SP, EN, PT) Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/food-sovereignty-and-t… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/international-solidari… [3] http://www.anamuri.cl/ [4] https://www.facebook.com/atc.nicaragua/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARD1qa9yh… [5] http://www.coag.org/quienes-somos [6] https://www.eurovia.org/fr/devant-le-conseil-des-ministres-de-lagriculture-… [7] http://www.albatv.org/ [8] https://rmr.fm/

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La Via Campesina | e-newsletter| Oct-Dec 2019
by La Via Campesina 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | Oct-Dec 2019 Donate [1] This edition of the newsletter is the result of a collective effort of organisations, which are part of_ La Via Campesina_ movement worldwide. To subscribe click here [2] MOBILISATIONS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN >From 25 to 30 November 2019, on the _INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN_, La Via Campesina mobilised several of its members and allies to unite with all those women and people of diverse identities who resist, organise and struggle for a fair and egalitarian society that works in solidarity, by keeping love and respect at its core. Through demonstrations, seminars and fairs, members of the peasant movement denounced the capitalist, patriarchal, racist and colonising system that exploits, oppresses and attacks the lives of women and humanity in general. FEATURED ARTICLES ONE YEAR SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE PEASANTS' RIGHTS DECLARATION On the first anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) in December last year, we call on governments, social movements, allies and activists to step up efforts globally to ensure that the member states of United Nations are committed to implementing this important instrument. Read more → [3] IT IS POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE FOOD WITHOUT AGROTOXICS! The peasant movement took up the Campaign in defense of life and against Agrotoxics, which seeks to denounce the close connection between the use of agrotoxics, the intervention of the production and marketing companies, and the different contradictions of agribusiness and their impact in the health of the population. Read more → [4] DECLARATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: COLONY AND FRONTIERS Read the full text of the Declaration from the "_Food Sovereignty: Colonies and Frontiers" international conference_ held in Ramallah, organized by the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), the Social and Economic Policies Monitor (Marsad), and La Via Campesina (LVC). Read more → [5] COP 25: WE WILL CONTINUE BUILDING SOCIAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE! La Via Campesina categorically rejects all false solutions to the climate crisis, including carbon markets (especially on farmlands), REDD and REDD+, agrofuels, GMOs and the so-called 'climate-smart agriculture', not to speak of the extremely dangerous geoengineering. Read more → [6] LA VIA CAMPESINA DENOUNCES THE COUP D'ÉTAT IN BOLIVIA As an international peasant movement, La Via Campesina expresses our deepest solidarity with the people of Bolivia and condemn the racist, class-based and misogynist coup d'État orchestrated by US imperialism and local conservative oligarchs. Read more → [7] DON'T GIVE UP THE INTERNATIONAL SEED TREATY TO THE NEW GENETIC BIOPIRACY! At the eighth meeting of its Governing Body - held from November 11 to 16 in Rome - in which a delegation of La Via Campesina participated along with other peasant organizations, members of the IPC (International Committee on Food Sovereignty) - the International Seed Treaty (1) is totally paralyzed by the greed of the biotech industry and the richest countries. Read more → [8] FEATURED PUBLICATION PEASANT SEEDS, THE HEART OF THE STRUGGLE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY In this edition of the newsletter we are inviting you to return to the debate on Peasant seeds - the heart of the struggle for Food Sovereignty, which guarantee full Peasants' Rights. Download here [9] FEATURED VIDEO [10] YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AUTONOMY OF OUR MOVEMENT ------------------------- As a supporter who has contributed financial resources to La Via 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. You can renew your contribution to La Via Campesina by clicking here [1]. 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Peasant seeds, the heart of the struggle for Food Sovereignty -The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!
by La Via Campesina 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

PEASANT SEEDS, THE HEART OF THE STRUGGLE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY 10 DECEMBER 2019 AGROECOLOGY AND PEASANTS'SEEDS [1], MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS [2], NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTERS [3] THE NEW EDITION OF THE NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER IS NOW ONLINE [4]! In 2018 the United Nations (UN) adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants [5], recognising at the highest level of international governance the strategic role played by the peasants of the world. (...) The Declaration highlights the role of peasant seeds in achieving Food Sovereignty, and in developing agrarian policies which favour peasant farmers. (...) It is vital to guarantee the right of peoples to "_Maintain, control, protect and develop their own seeds and traditional knowledge". _(...) In this edition of the newsletter, we are inviting you to return to the debate on _PEASANT SEEDS, THE HEART OF THE STRUGGLE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY_, which guarantees full Peasant Rights. We are sharing a series of articles which seek to raise awareness and improve organisation for Peasant Seeds in all territories and providing information about how to join the "Adopt a Seed" action. You will also find testimonies of the actions of resistance people are engaged in to keep peasant seeds in the hands of those who feed populations in a fair and healthy way. _Click here to download the English edition [4]_ or read it directly on the website at www.nyeleni.org [6] ! For any further information, please contact info(a)nyeleni.org PLEASE CIRCULATE IT TO YOUR CONTACTS! Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/biodiversity-and-genet… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/media-and-publications/ [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/media-and-publications/nyeleni-newsletters/ [4] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=140 [5] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/UN-Delcarati… [6] http://www.nyeleni.org/

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It is possible to produce food without agrotoxics, peasant agroecology is the way!
by La Via Campesina 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

IT IS POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE FOOD WITHOUT AGROTOXICS, PEASANT AGROECOLOGY IS THE WAY! 3 DECEMBER 2019 CAMPAIGN AGAINST AGROTOXICS [1], FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [2], GENERAL [3], TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES AND AGRIBUSINESS [4] A CAMPAIGN IN DEFENSE OF LIFE AND AGAINST AGROTOXICS! (Harare, December 3, 2019) During the VI International Conference of "La Vía Campesina" held in Indonesia 6 years ago, the peasant movement took up the _CAMPAIGN IN DEFENSE OF LIFE AND AGAINST AGROTOXICS, WHICH SEEKS TO DENOUNCE THE CLOSE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE USE OF AGROTOXICS, THE INTERVENTION OF THE PRODUCTION AND MARKETING COMPANIES, AND THE DIFFERENT CONTRADICTIONS OF AGRIBUSINESS AND THEIR IMPACT IN THE HEALTH OF THE POPULATION, IN THE CONTAMINATION OF NATURE AND IN ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE. FURTHERMORE, WITH THIS CAMPAIGN,_ we promote peasant agroecology as the model of healthy food production, which guarantees Food Sovereignty and prioritizes the defense of life, for the survival of our planet and humanity. Currently, there is concrete evidence of the damages caused by the overuse of agrotoxics, both for those who apply them in production and also for those who consume the contaminated food. At the same time, millions of peasants, indigenous peoples and small farmers worldwide embrace agroecology as a way for life against the agribusiness model, producing healthy food with a high level of efficiency, enough to feed the people with fair prices and in culturally appropriate ways and also ensuring resilience to disasters. The use of agrotoxics is one of the main pillars of agribusiness together with transgenic (genetically modified) seeds. The production and marketing of agrotoxics is monopolized by 4 large transnational companies that recently merged and have, working with and through subsidiaries and representative companies, full control of the world agricultural input market: Monsanto-Bayer, DowDupond, Syngenta-ChemChina and BASF. With this campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of agrotoxics, La Via Campesina also intensifies its struggle against transnationals, putting forward a different model of agricultural development for an agriculture based on peasant agroecology instead of agrotoxics and transgenics, centering peasants as the historical subject that feeds the people instead of agribusinesses that value profit over life. The use of agrotoxics is no longer an issue solely related to agricultural production, but rather it's becoming a hazard for public health and for the preservation of nature. Several European countries have already banned and punish the use of GMOs and agrotoxics due to their dangerous side effects. On this path of resistance, La Via Campesina along with its allies are calling to build unity between organizations in urban and rural areas, producers, consumers, environmentalists, students and researchers for life and Food Sovereignty. For all these reasons, this is a permanent campaign focused on training, information sharing, mobilization and articulation. Join this collective struggle on December 3 and help us bring this campaign to every territory! Send your information to lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org AGROECOLOGY IS LIFE, AGROTOXICS KILL! Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/transnational-comp… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/food-sovereignty-and-t… [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/non-classe/ [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/transnational-comp…

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With Rights and in Democracy, we will continue building Social and Climate Justice! - Communique: La Via Campesina – COP 25
by La Via Campesina 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

WITH RIGHTS AND IN DEMOCRACY, WE WILL CONTINUE BUILDING SOCIAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE! 29 NOVEMBER 2019 AGROECOLOGY AND PEASANTS'SEEDS [1], CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE [2], INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY [3] COMMUNIQUE: LA VIA CAMPESINA – COP 25 (Harare, November 29, 2019) Convinced that_ WITH RIGHTS AND IN DEMOCRACY, WE WILL CONTINUE BUILDING SOCIAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE_, La Via Campesina calls for action in Madrid and Santiago in the context of the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP 25. We unite our voice with that of the Chilean People in their mass mobilizations against President Sebastián Piñera and his neoliberal extractivist policies, demanding nothing less than a new Constitution. Moreover, we condemn the State of Chile's brutal violence and its attempt to continue its 'presidency' of the COP 25 while unilaterally renouncing its responsibilities under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The fact that COP 25 was transferred from Santiago de Chile to Madrid only serves to strengthen our firm belief that there is only one way to ensure Food Sovereignty and Social and Climate Justice: full democracy and an inviolable respect for human, peasant and indigenous peoples' rights, and the rights of all those who fight and resist. This is why the People's Summit [4] in Santiago is still on and why the Social Summit on Climate [5] is now being organized for Madrid. La Via Campesina will be mobilized in both of these spaces of solidarity and exchange, working alongside peoples and youth from throughout the world fighting the capitalist system. For years now, La Via Campesina has denounced the co-option of the UNFCCC by transnational corporations and the governments that represent their interests. The numerous contradictions of the Paris Agreement (COP 21) - including its non-binding nature and inability to overcome the logic of markets - are a direct result of this co-option. This is also true of COP 25, where mechanisms of 'international cooperation' are set to be defined so that 'Intended Nationally Determined Contributions' can be met. In other words, market mechanisms will be sought that allow certain countries - and their transnational corporations - to keep polluting to the detriment of the climate and our rights. In 2018 and 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed what our peoples and organizations have been saying for some time: the climate crisis has already hit Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas; agribusinesses has played a major part in creating the crisis; and we must take urgent action to completely transform our societies! We are already witnessing multiple examples of the climate crisis: Cyclone Idai in Mozambique; the flooding of Karnataka and Maharastra in India; heatwaves of over 45° C that have devastated Europe and North America; and the burning of the Amazon in South America. La Via Campesina believes firmly that the climate should not change. Instead, action must be taken without delay for a complete turnaround, changing the capitalist system that exploits, pollutes and uses up our commons, which are the heritage of peoples throughout the world. This urgent and much needed transformation must be implemented through a just transition and will only be possible if the rights of peasants, indigenous peoples and all those working in rural areas are fully respected. This means ending all forms of violence against women and diverse people; and democratically controlling land, water, territories and other commons. Peasant communities across the world already feed the majority of people (70% of the world's population) with minimal access to agricultural resources (25%). Meanwhile, monocrop agribusinesses exporters destroy biodiversity, cause illness, displace communities, drive global warming and massacre those who stand up against them. La Via Campesina categorically rejects all false solutions to the climate crisis, including carbon markets (especially on farmlands), REDD and REDD+, agrofuels, GMOs and the so-called 'climate-smart agriculture', not to speak of the extremely dangerous geoengineering. We want food sovereignty based on peasant agroecology, social and climate justice through a just transition and respect for the majorities. This is what we work for in our respective countries, day in and day out. History has taught us that solutions come from the peoples. At COP25, we insist that our so-called "representatives" assume their responsibilities instead of simply serving the interests of capital. There is no better example of the relationship between rights, democracy and climate justice than the current criminal coup d'état in Bolivia. In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, an anti-democratic opposition party, alongside the financial elite and transnational powers - with the complicity of the Bolivian army and police - aim to impose total privatization. They are doing this with guns, lies and censorship. The indigenous and peasant majority population of Bolivia was an honourable partner in the work that led to the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. Now, the doors of democracy and rights are being slammed in their faces. La Via Campesina demands an End to the Coup d'état in Bolivia! >From Santiago to Madrid to La Paz, and every corner of the planet, we will stand up to tell the world: _WITH RIGHTS AND IN DEMOCRACY, WE WILL CONTINUE BUILDING SOCIAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE!_ PRESS CONTACT DETAILS: * Javier Sanchez +34 625 09 27 49 | jsanchez(a)agrazar.com * Isabel Salcedo Quiroga +34 677 16 13 19 | isabelsalcedoquiroga(a)gmail.com Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/biodiversity-and-genet… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/climate-change-and-agr… [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/international-solidari… [4] https://cumbredelospueblos2019.org/ [5] https://cumbresocialclima.net/

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