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Nyéléni Newsletter: Migration and Food Sovereignty
by La Via Campesina 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

_The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!_ The so-called migration crisis has taken a highly tragic turn. Many escape due to the violence of the wars of occupation, others do so because of the disasters of the climate crisis and many more because of the inequities of this voracious and savage capitalist system. For our part, the Collective on Migrations of La Vía Campesina proposes to understand migration as an act of resistance by the dispossessed. When human beings leave their families, their communities and their lands, they are challenging the system that has condemned them to disappear as peasants, as indigenous people, as women, as people of color, as youth, as another culture, as a community and as a people. By understanding migration in this way, we recognize in the struggle of La Via Campesina the key role of migrants and their potential as actors of change. Click here to download the English edition [1] or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org [2]! For any further information, please contact info(a)nyeleni.org PLEASE CIRCULATE IT TO YOUR CONTACTS! Links: ------ [1] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=127 [2] http://www.nyeleni.org/

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Peasant struggles against Neo-Liberalism to realize a ‘WORLD BEYOND THE BANKS’
by La Via Campesina 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

THE IMF-WORLD BANK ANNUAL MEETING IS SLATED TO TAKE PLACE IN BALI, INDONESIA FROM 8-14 OCTOBER 2018. LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS UPON ITS MEMBERS AND ALLIES TO MOBILIZE IN LARGE NUMBERS. ------------------------- 05 SEPTEMBER, HARARE: La Via Campesina calls upon its members, allied social movements and civil society organizations in the world to gather and move to jointly build actions against the policies of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), which is going to organize their "Annual Meetings IMF-WB 2018", in Bali-Indonesia on 8-14 October 2018. These institutions were created in 1944, with a proclaimed goal to reduce poverty. However, they have mainly served the interests of their main contributors and imposed neo-liberal agenda comprising market fundamentalism, privatization and deregulation around the world. The loans they provide are given under strict conditions to open-up the markets and dismantle all kinds of national policies. In doing so, they have acted as global economic colonizers. Instead of alleviating poverty, as they promised in their programs, they marginalize and evict farmers from their farm land. Moreover, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are undemocratic institutions and utterly discredited, where 'one-dollar-one-vote-decision-making' marginalizes Southern countries. The IMF and its safeguard policy rests on liberalization, privatization and deregulation which results in the degradation of State sovereignty, such that the State cannot play its role in implementing economic justice and welfare for its people. Vital sectors that control the lives of many people are left to the private sector, so that the mechanism or timing of debt repayments can run smoothly. As a result, the welfare of peasants is neglected and becomes the main cause of poverty. This impact can be clearly seen in an instance, when the signing of the Letter of Intent (LoI) between the Government of Indonesia and the IMF in 1997, led to the weakening of the BULOG (National Public Stock Holding), due to which Indonesia started to import food in large scale, especially rice. This policy then is coherent with Agreement on Agriculture of WTO, which is also about market liberalization and public stock holding. Therefore IMF and WTO as well as Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are all inter-connected with each other in terms of advancing neo-liberalism. IMF continues to promote market liberalization and privatization through other international forums in developing countries, even though there are no countries now that can claim to be unaffected by by the IMF .That's why people mobilized in large numbers against the IMF during the G20 meeting in Argentina July 2018, soon after Government of Argentina received new debt from IMF. As is widely know,Greece is also a 'victim' of IMF now. World Bank(WB), as a world development funding institution, implements various models of mega infrastructural projects, purportedly carried out to increase economic growth. These have led to rampant land grabbing, criminalization against peasants who resist and eviction of peasant's houses in various parts of the world such as Indonesia, India, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Philippine and Brazil. In period of 2001 to 2010, due to large-scale investments driven by WB in the agricultural sector, mainly in African and Asian countries, around 203 million hectares of land was forcefully grabbed. In particular, the WB infiltrates the agrarian and agricultural sectors by providing an agrarian reform model that is considered to support the agricultural sector economy through a project called the Program to Accelerate Agrarian Reform (One Map Project). This is nothing but market-based agrarian reform, which neither emphasizes the redistribution of land in a fair way, nor assures the control of the land by peasants or peasant family. Instead, it only emphasizes the issue of land monetization, which takes the control of Land from individuals and in turn facilitate capital infiltration. It is evident in the implementation of One Map Project in Indonesia and in all developing countries from 2000 till now, where the program has only focused on the distribution of land certificates without resolving ongoing agrarian conflicts and without giving equal size to land control. Those are only to create land market or land bank for big plantation, infrastructure, factory, dam, irrigation etc. World Bank also pushed Southern countries who were systematically 'trapped in debt' to privatize public sectors services, such as health, education, water management, forest and plantation, paving a way for corporations to make huge profit. At the same time, climate change brought about extreme climatic events resulting in terrible natural disasters including heavy flooding and severe drought, which aggravated the food crisis. Forced eviction, criminalization of people who resist, agrarian conflicts, hunger and poverty are terrible consequences of privatization, both directly and indirectly. Not stopping at this oppression through infrastructure development, the World Bank expanded its activities into the realm of climate change mitigation. One such example is the Forest Investment Program (FIP) under REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). The program is a collection of funds within the World Bank to provide funds for developing countries that have forests. Recorded until 2010, funds collected amounted to $577 million. At first glance the program appears to strike the right boxes but in reality has a negative impact on the community, especially for peasant and indigenous people. The program legalizes forceful grabbing of peasant's land under the guise of land conservation and enter into legal partnerships with Corporations thus handing out to them the task of forest conservation. Indonesia itself in 2016 received funding from the FIP program amounting to 17.5 million USD. This multi-faceted oppression of World Bank and IMF must be called out. We invite all social movements and civil society organizations to mobilize on the streets to resist this this neoliberal regime and help in building an alternative world; A WORLD BEYOND THE BANKS. Let us make ourselves heard in Bali between 8-14 October 2018. With this appeal, as La Via Campesina we hope to move together and move forward to demonstrate the power of organized people to defend our Food Sovereignty and promote social justice. ------------------------- _END WORLD BANK!_ _END IMF!_ _FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE NOW!_ ------------------------- Also Read: Global Day of Action Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements - Call to Mobilise! [1] Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/global-day-of-action-against-wto-and-free-trade…

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"La Via Campesina |e-newsletter| July-August 2018 "
by La Via Campesina 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | July- August 2018 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] GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST WTO AND FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS – CALL TO MOBILISE! _WTO and a host of __multilateral__ and bilateral Free Trade Agreements have created criminal levels of inequality: La Via Campesina_ Global bodies such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) that are directly and indirectly promoting a host of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements have created a criminal level of inequality in this world, wherein according to reports, 82% of the world's wealth is now controlled by merely 1% of the people. Global Hunger is again on the rise, with peoples' food sovereignty under severe threat. Read more ... [3] FEATURED ARTICLES FROM JUNE 2018 MANAGUA DECLARATION: FROM THE MEETING OF THE BROADENED INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE _"Workers and peasants of the land and water for Climate Justice"_ La Via Campesina, in representation of millions of peasant families, farm workers, indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, allies from social movements and academics, have met in Managua, Nicaragua, Central America from 24-27 August 2018, to deepen a strategy for environmental and climate justice. Read more ... [4] Peasant struggles against Neo-Liberalism to realize a 'WORLD BEYOND THE BANKS' La Via Campesina calls upon its members, allied social movements and civil society organizations in the world to gather and move to jointly build actions against the policies of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), which is going to organize their "Annual Meetings IMF-WB 2018", in Bali-Indonesia on 8-14 October 2018. Read more ... [5] It is time to declare the food sovereignty of the citizens of Switzerland As the result of an impressive campaign led by the agricultural union Uniterre and members of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty, on September 23rd, 2018, Swiss citizens will be able to vote for the inclusion of food sovereignty in the Swiss constitution. Read more ... [6] LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS FOR THE RELEASE OF THE DETAINEES OF HIRAK RIF AND ALL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ACTIVISTS IN MOROCCO _Declaration_ Following the Popular march of Rabat of the 15th July, 2017, La Via Campesina supports the Vital Forces in Morocco and calls for the release of the detainees of Hirak RIF and all social movements activists, for the opening of an investigation on the torture and ill-treatment they suffered, and for accomplishing their demands. Read more ... [7] A week of hunger strike: The Federal Supreme Court is responsible for life of Brazilian militants Protesters alert the judges of the Supreme Court that their decisions may result in the salvation or death not only of the strikers, but of thousands of Brazilians. Read more ... [8] SPI extends solidarity to those affected by North Lombok Earthquake, Indonesia Last Sunday (July 29), the land of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) was rocked by an earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude, causing severe damage and casualties. Several farmers, who are also members of the Indonesian Farmers' Union (SPI) in North Lombok are among the people affected. Read more ... [9] RCEP negotiation must stop, demands Assembly of the Poor, Thailand The administration of the military dictatorial government under the junta National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) creates immense hardship to the grassroots people. Read more ... [10] A HANDFUL OF COUNTRIES LEGITIMISING CLAIMS MADE BY AGRO-INDUSTRY, DIMINISHING THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE TO SEEDS _Convention on Biological Diversity - twenty-second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technical Advice (SBSTTA) - Montréal, Canada, July 2nd-7th, 2018 _ Press Release from La Via Campesina Read more ... [11] RCEP will be disastrous for Indian dairy farmers and agriculture: La Via Campesia South Asia during Bangkok negotiations Kannaiyan Subramaniam, the General Secretary of South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements (SICCFM), a member of La Via Campesina South Asia, intervened during the 23rd RCEP negotiations held in BANGKOK on 23 July 2018. Here is the full text of his speech: Read more .... [12] "WE WANT ALL CHILDREN TO BE HAPPY AND FREE": LANDLESS KIDS' MANIFESTO Restating children's willingness to struggle and build the project for a People's Agrarian Reform, 1,200 children coming from several different camps and settlements across Brazil released the Landless Kids' Manifesto during their National Meeting held in Brasília, Brazil, which will take place until July 26th. Read more ... [13] To include food sovereignty in the Swiss constitution would be to recognise the real challenges and priorities for citizens: ECVC On 23 September, Swiss citizens will be able to vote to include an article on food sovereignty in the constitution. This crucial decision comes at a very particular moment when Europe, subjected violently to heat waves, drought, forest fires and lack of water, is recognising the intense consequences of climate change and the great fragility of industrial agricultural systems. Read more ... [14] MOBILISE FOR A UN DECLARATION, NOW IS THE TIME TO GLOBALISE OUR STRUGGLE! _Declaration on the Rights of Peasants awaiting final voting and adoption_ After ten long years of negotiations in Geneva, a 'United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas' is now at the point of being finalised. Read more ... [15] Palestine: UAWC denounces the continuous attacks on Palestinian fisherfolks by naval forces of the Israeli Occupation Union of Agricultural Work Committees and Palestinian Peasants Movement denounced the continuous attacks of Israeli Occupation Naval forces against the Palestinian fishermen while fishing within the allowed fishing zone. Read more ... [16] NICARAGUAN WOMEN'S COOPERATIVE BUILDING SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY Over 30 La Via Campesina delegates and allies attending the face-to-face meeting of the international working collective on climate and environmental justice visited women's cooperative, Gloria Quintanilla in Santa Julia, Municipality El Crucero. Read more ... [17] ECVC analysis of the proposed regulation for the CAP 2021-2027 reform and the Strategic Plans For ECVC, the European Commission's CAP proposal, which is based on simplification and subsidiarity through the Strategic Plans and the new delivery model, entails a serious fragmentation of the policy. Read more ... [18] Kenya Should Ignore IMF Reform Package and Stop Repaying Debts The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL) a member of the La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC SEAf) is concerned about the reform package being pushed down the throat of Kenyan government by the International Monetary Fund ... Read more ... [19] Gene Drive is a threat to people, country and even world's food sovereignty: La Via Campesina in Montreal Full text of the intervention made by Geneviève Lalumière of UNION PAYSANNE at the meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) ... Read more ... [20] The European Parliament demands that EU Members States vote in favour of the peasants' rights declaration On 3rd July, the EP adopted an important resolution on the rights violations, including land-grabbing, that indigenous peoples across the world suffer. Read more ... [21] South India Floods: Paddy farmers, plantations, poultry and dairy sector suffer severe losses Kerala, a Southern State in India, suffered devastating losses after torrential rains that lashed the state in three rounds, wreaked havoc all across. Over 320 people lost their lives ... Read more ... [22] La Via Campesina announces solidarity with hunger strikers and denounces institutional violence in Brazil Six members of La Via Campesina Brazil began an indefinite hunger strike on July 31 in front of the headquarters of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brasilia to demand Lula's freedom and respect for democracy, ... Read more ... [23] Decision of the European Court of Justice on new GMOs: a historic victory for peasants and citizens of the EU Brussels, July 25th 2018 - The European Court of Justice has issued its decision on the legal status of new GMOs. Read more ... [24] Peasant Women in Korea denounce Smart Farm Policy, submit a charter of eight demands to President Moon Members of Korean Women Peasant Association mobilised in large numbers in Seoul to draw attention to rural agrarian crisis and a reform in the current agricultural policy. Read more ... [25] Peasants' Rights: South Asia Peasants, allies call upon States to support the UN Declaration The All Nepal Peasant Federation (ANPFa), member of La Via Campesina and among the largest peasant organisations in the Nepal, hosted a South Asian Consultation on the proposed UN Declaration to protect the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. Read more ... [26] FEATURED VIDEOS [27] Understanding the issues at stake around the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. Watch video [27] [28] Why is the proposed _UN Declaration for Rights of Peasants and Other People working in Rural Areas _important? In this video Henry Saragih of La Via Campesina explains the history and the importance of this proposed declaration and why is it important for members and allies to mobilise in support of it. Watch Video [29] 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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Global Day of Action Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements – Call to Mobilise!
by La Via Campesina 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

WTO AND A HOST OF MULTI-LATERAL AND BILATERAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS HAVE CREATED CRIMINAL LEVELS OF INEQUALITY: LA VIA CAMPESINA ------------------------- 03 SEPTEMBER, HARARE:Global bodies such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) that are directly and indirectly promoting a host of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements have created a criminal level of inequality in this world, wherein according to reports, 82% of the world's wealth is now controlled by merely 1% [1] of the people. Global Hunger is again on the rise [2], with peoples' food sovereignty under severe threat. This comes on the back of a seven-decade long persistent push for neo-liberal policies, which called for 'free market trade' regimes around the world. Privatisation and de-regulation that came about as the consequences of such a push has evidently made the rich richer, while poverty and world hunger continue to remain at staggeringly high levels. It is an unpardonable offense that brings into question the purpose of existence of these institutions and the Free Trade Agreements they promote. All that these agreements have ensured is the freedom for Multinational Corporations to dump cheap food into economically weaker countries, after having received heavy subsidies from their rich governments. Such dumping and a push for an industrial agricultural system has ended up treating food grains as a commodity for trade, as a commodity to be speculated upon - with peasants and family farmers unable to meet even the cost of cultivation. It has destroyed rural peasant communities, fishers and our peasant markets. Increased privatisation of services have increased the cost of living, while income levels of peasant households have plunged. The resulting debt has pushed millions of peasants households into deep debt. This industrial system of agriculture promoted by the criminal trio of WTO, World Bank and IMF, has led to consolidation and control of the global food chain into the hands of a few agribusiness corporations, while creating devastating impact for the planet, its people and all the living species. ———EDUCATE, AGITATE, ORGANISE!———– It was to highlight this extreme violation of the rural side, that on 10 September 2003, Lee Kyung Hae - a rice farmer from South Korea and a leader of our peasant movement - took his own life outside the Ministerial meeting of WTO in Cancun, Mexico. While sacrificing his life to expose the crimes of WTO and Free Trade Agreements, Lee was holding a placard that read "WTO Kills Farmers". Since that day, we have come to mark 10 September as the Global Day of Action Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements, mobilising our peasant members against the assault of global capital and free market regimes. We have denounced WTO at all the ministerial meetings held ever since through direct actions. This year too, we will continue the resistance. Several multi-lateral and bilateral agreements such as RCEP, CPTPP, EU-Mercosur, CETA and more are being frantically negotiated by countries and global bodies behind closed doors, with no respect to democracy and national sovereignty. In the run up to September 10, we call upon all our members, allies, supporters in the cities and the country sides and all friends to organise marches, public meetings and rural actions that will continue to denounce the existence of WTO, World Bank, IMF as well as expose the details of these agreements that threaten to take away people's food sovereignty and allow expansion of markets for multinational agribusinesses. Let us all, in our own decentralised and diverse ways of struggle, echo the call Lee Kyung Hae gave us -_"WTO AND FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS KILLS PEASANTS"._ La Via Campesina will also soon be announcing a massive mobilisation effort against criminal trio of World Bank, IMF and WTO. We urge every member to stay together and show the power of people's resistance. _Onward, now!_ WTO KILLS PEASANTS! TAKE AGRICULTURE OUT OF ALL FREE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS! WE WANT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, NOT FREE TRADE! ------------------------- VISIBILISE OUR STRUGGLES Please send the details of your planned actions to lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org or share it on Whatsapp and Telegram with Nyoni/Abhilash - < +263 772 441 909 or +91 9717250202> You can also tag the official pages of La Via Campesina on Facebook and Twitter Facebook: www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/ [3] Twitter: https://twitter.com/via_campesina Hashtags: EN > #WTOKILLS #FOODSOVEREIGNTY ES> #OMCMata #SoberaniaAlimentariaYa FR> #OMCtue #SouverainetéAlimentaire TO DOWNLOAD POSTERS, FACEBOOK AND TWITTER BANNERS OR CREATE A CUSTOMISED POSTER CLICK HERE [4] ------------------------- Links: ------ [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/wef-18-oxfam-says-worlds-richest-1-percent-… [2] http://www.who.int/news-room/detail/15-09-2017-world-hunger-again-on-the-ri… [3] http://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/ [4] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/E4ytb6azGxZr63w

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Mobilise for a UN Declaration, Now is the time to Globalise Our Struggle!
by La Via Campesina 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

MOBILISE FOR A UN DECLARATION, NOW IS THE TIME TO GLOBALISE OUR STRUGGLE! DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AWAITING FINAL VOTING AND ADOPTION After ten long years of negotiations in Geneva, a 'United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas' is now at the point of being finalised. The draft text of the declaration, was discussed during the Fifth Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIWG) session between the 9th and the 13th of April 2018 at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). According to the Chair-Rapporteur of the session, "States commit the highest relevance and political will for the prompt adoption of the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas". The Chair also stated that, "On the basis of the work carried on in the fifth session and informal and bilateral consultations, a final version of the draft declaration [will] be prepared by the Chair-Rapporteur and [will] be submitted to the Human Rights Council for its adoption". Later this year at the September session of UN HRC, countries will vote to adopt the text. Thereafter, the text will be tabled for final voting and adoption at the UN General Assembly. TIME TO MOBILISE! Today over 1.2 billion peasants and their families, representing a third of the global population, face increasing violation of their rights - in the form of evictions from their lands and territories, unfavourable production and market policies, poor working conditions, ongoing criminalisation and killings, among others. This is a highly disturbing situation. Peasants and other people working in rural areas are key to achieving food security and food sovereignty, realising the right to food, fighting climate change, conserving biodiversity and revitalising rural areas. This declaration will set a new standard for human rights. It promotes food sovereignty and supports the development and implementation of socio-economic policies that improve our food and agriculture system. It will also pave the way for the creation of public policies in favour of peasants and rural workers in countries where such policies do not exist. The UN Declaration will become a credible reference to improve existing policies further and give millions of rural peasant communities and workers an international voice. It is therefore important to pressurise our governments to vote in favour of the final text of the declaration at the next session of the UN Human Rights Council in September 2018 and during the UN General Assemblyin New York. In this context, La Via Campesina - a global movement of peasants, indigenous people, landless people, agricultural workers, women, and young people - is calling upon all our members and allies to mobilise and reach out to the respective governments, demand and convince them to vote in favour of this initiative that upholds humanity. We encourage everyone to create decentralised strategies to take the message of the Declaration to rural communities. VISIBILISE OUR ACTIONS! Send us the details of your mobilisations to LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG and also spread the message wider on social media platforms. This is our chance to make ourselves heard, loud and clear! * DOWNLOAD POSTERS AND BANNERS FROM THIS LINK [1] * HASHTAG FOR TWITTER AND FACEBOOK #PeasantsRightsNow #LaViaCampesina SEND PHOTOS/VIDEOS OF YOUR MOBILISATION TO Email: lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org | Telegram/Whatsapp: Nyoni/Andres - +263 772 441 909 and +32 489 55 22 97 ------------------------- GLOBALISE THE STRUGGLE! GLOBALISE HOPE! PEASANTS RIGHTS NOW! Links: ------ [1] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/DeaXN6g8eDL4ncn

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La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | June 2018
by La Via Campesina 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | June 2018 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] A HANDFUL OF COUNTRIES LEGITIMISING CLAIMS MADE BY AGRO-INDUSTRY, DIMINISHING THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE TO SEEDS Convention on Biological Diversity - twenty-second meeting of the SUBSIDIARY BODY ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE (SBSTTA) - Montréal, Canada, July 2nd-7th, 2018 Read the press release from La Via Campesina [3] FEATURED ARTICLES FROM JUNE 2018 ALL UNITED WITH USB AND THE STRUGGLE OF MIGRANT RURAL WORKERS IN LIGHT OF THE MURDER OF SOUMAILA SACKO! Together with our comrades of USB and our Italian member ARI, in deep condolences of Soumaila's family, we will not allow Italy's and Europe's racist doctrine to have the last word. Read More [4] TERRITORIAL MARKETS: VIA CAMPESINA MEMBERS AND ALLIES PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP IN ROME Members of La Via Campesina from Asia, Africa, Europe, South America participated in the meeting to build participatory methodology of research on territorial markets around the world, together with researchers, FAO, allies like ROPPA and other civil society organisations. Read More [5] SMALL–SCALE FARMERS OF AFRICA AND DENMARK REJECT FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS Danish and African small-scale farmers share a strong interest in mitigating climate change and preventing the dumping of European (and North American) farm products into food markets of countries of the Global South. Read More [6] LVC SOUTHERN & EASTERN AFRICA AND ALLIES WRITE OPEN LETTER TO THE REGIONAL MEMBER STATES DEMANDING CLIMATE JUSTICE The Open Letter moves on to make concrete demands for actions to be adopted by governments, civil society organizations and other key stakeholders, and proposals that should inform national, regional and global policies. Read More [7] PAKISTAN: STRUGGLES OF TENANT FARMERS IN OKARA MILITARY FARMS British colonialists bestowed vast tracts of land mainly to the revenue collectors (zemindars) in order to raise land revenue. This grafted native Indians onto the British structure, insuring their loyalty to British authority. After partition this class, along with the comprador bourgeoisie, became Pakistan's hybrid ruling class.Farooq Tariq, General Secretary, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee writes Read More [8] A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN SCALING UP AGROECOLOGICAL FARMING IN KARNATAKA, INDIA In the announcement made at the meeting with social movements, the government of Karnataka has agreed to start a pilot project and set up teams who will work in 10 agro-climatic zones of the state to scale up this model in a systematic way. Read More [9] FEATURED PUBLICATIONS LA VIA CAMPESINA - 2017 ANNUAL REPORT IS OUT! The 2017 annual report highlights selected struggles towards strengthening the international movement and the VIIth La Via Campesina International Conference deliberations and celebrations. This gathering and the various struggles throughout 2017 were moments of renewal of the spirit of peoples' resistances, building solidarity and exchanging the tales of struggle from our territories with each other. Download your copy here [10] _'BACK DOWN TO EARTH' – A REFLECTION PAPER ON NEW ENTRANTS IN AGRICULTURE BY ECVC_ The Common Agricultural Policy does not support these new farms and new entrants. Given the current situation in which citizens demand more and more high-quality, locally-sourced food, the time has come to encourage and support farms and small-scale farmers that are trying to rebuild the fractured local markets in Europe and pave the way for a new generation of food producers. Download your copy here [11] FEATURED VIDEOS [12] Why is the proposed _UN Declaration for Rights of Peasants and Other People working in Rural Areas _important? In this video Henry Saragih of La Via Campesina explains the history and the importance of this proposed declaration and why is it important for members and allies to mobilise in support of it. Watch Video [13] 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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La Via Campesina: 2017 Annual report is out!
by La Via Campesina 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

LA VIA CAMPESINA: 2017 ANNUAL REPORT IS OUT! TITLE: La Via Campesina. 2017 Annual report YEAR: May 2017 LANGUAGE: English (also available in French and Spanish) Summary: The 2017 annual report highlights selected struggles towards strengthening the international movement and the VIIth La Via Campesina International Conference deliberations and celebrations. The conference whose theme was _"We feed our peoples and build the movement to change the world"_ signified the collective processes to develop ideas, proposals, joint struggles and alternative projects to confront neoliberal agenda as well as the rise of right-wing politics. This gathering and the various struggles throughout 2017 were moments of renewal of the spirit of peoples' resistances, building solidarity and exchanging the tales of struggle from our territories with each other, presenting new opportunities and challenges to "Globalizing the Struggle, [and] Globalising Hope". A major effort was made in 2017 to bolster women and the youth to have a stronger voice within La Via Campesina to effectively shape the decisions and build a movement based on equality through removing barriers to their participation and continuing to implement the campaign to end all forms of violence against women. EDITION: La Via Campesina Download the report here [1]. Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/2017_Annual_…

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Press Release: La Via Campesina denounces corporate influence in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Canada
by La Via Campesina 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

LA VIA CAMPESINA DENOUNCES CORPORATE INFLUENCE IN THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (CBD) IN CANADA HARARE, 29 JUNE: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will hold meetings of the XXII Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in Montreal July 2-7, 2018 to prepare for the main decisions to be made at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parts on the Convention on Biological Diversity in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt at the end of November - decisions of utmost importance for the future of peasants and, more broadly, all of humanity and the planet. IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS YEAR'S SBSTTA, LA VIA CAMPESINA DEMAND THAT THE GOVERNMENTS REJECT: - The release of invisible and unidentified genetically modified living organisms resulting from the so-called new genetic engineering techniques and designed to completely eliminate certain animal and plant species ("gene drives") - The modification of international rules and regulations that permit States, the right to reject genetically-modified plants and animals, forcing them instead to accept new genetic engineering techniques - The allowance of free and unlimited access by a few transitional corporations to the genetic sequences of living organisms. The pretext of computerized dematerialization of these sequences gives them the ability to patent all seeds, all farm animals, all medicines, and all other industrialized products derived from natural biodiversity La Via Campesina will be present in Montreal to oppose the transnational corporations and the policies that support their attempts to change the international conventions of the United Nations to plunder and destroy rather than protect all of the earth's freely existing biodiversity and replacing it with synthetic organisms designed in their laboratories. Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists and fisherfolk live and work daily within biological diversity. We understand that human beings are part of this diversity and that it must be respected and protected as our lives, our food, and our future generations depend on it. Protecting peasants' and Indigenous Peoples' knowledge, as well as our rights to the sustainable use of biodiversity, is at the heart of our struggle against privatization and destruction. Defending true biodiversity and the nature that feeds and supports us is an element of Food Sovereignty. Food Sovereignty advocates for the rights of peoples rather than corporations to determine the advance and applicability of any and all technology introduced into the natural world. It preserves the rights of citizens and food producers as integral to any decisions about the future and resilience of the worlds's food system. ------------------- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND INTERVIEWS WITH THE LVC DELEGATION, CONTACT: [FR/EN] Geneviève Lalumière (Quebec) | genevieve.lalumiere(a)gmail.com | 1.514.577.9265 [FR/EN/ES] Antonio Onorati (Italy) | antonio.onorati48(a)gmail.com | | 39.340.821.9456 [FR] Alimata Traore (Mali) | alimaatou(a)yahoo.fr | 223.7603.0767

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La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | May 2018
by La Via Campesina 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | May 2018 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] DECLARATION OF GÜIRA DE MELENA Joined together in this First Global Encounter of Agroecology Schools and Formation Processes of La Via Campesina, we affirm based on the broad diversity of our peasant agricultures, that we are the peoples who produce the food and other agricultural products needed by humanity. Read More [3] FEATURED ARTICLES FROM MAY 2018 LA VIA CAMPESINA SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA TO STRENGTHEN ADVOCACY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE IN THE REGION! African smallholder farmers constitute over 80% of all farms, producing over 70% of the food consumed on the continent, relying on farmer saved traditional seeds and traditional farming practises informed by century old indigenous knowledge systems. Read More [4] FIGHT, BUILD A PEOPLE'S AGRARIAN REFORM! LETTER FROM THE MST TO THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE This moment calls for unity in action among progressive forces and an effort to build a People's Project for Brazil capable of challenging the country's structural problems, fighting extreme poverty and unemployment; bringing development back; facing the issue of housing and urban mobility in the cities; guaranteeing quality public health care and education; carrying out agrarian reform in the countryside; protecting and stopping the privatization of common natural goods; and restoring national sovereignty. Read More [5] LA VIA CAMPESINA STRONGLY DENOUNCES THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL ON PALESTINIAN PEOPLE La Via Campesina strongly condemns the continuous killings, usurpation, land grabbing, looting of natural resources and the policy of apartheid led by the criminal state of Israel against the Palestinian people Read More [6] THE FUTURE OF THE CAP: SMALL-SCALE FARMERS SPEAK OUT FROM THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT How can our current agricultural and food system respond to the present challenges it faces? In response to the event's opening question, ECVC panellists demonstrated that in terms of solving challenges posed by climate change, small-scale farming can make an excellent contribution by supporting unique agro-biodiversity as well as various wild animal and plant species. Read More [7] OPPRESSION OF PAKISTAN'S CARICATURED FEUDALISM British colonialists bestowed vast tracts of land mainly to the revenue collectors (zemindars) in order to raise land revenue. This grafted native Indians onto the British structure, insuring their loyalty to British authority. After partition this class, along with the comprador bourgeoisie, became Pakistan's hybrid ruling class.Farooq Tariq, General Secretary, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee writes. Read [8] AFRICAN PEASANTS DEMAND CLIMATE JUSTICE TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS: "TIME OF REAL SOLUTIONS IS NOW!" Peasant farmers of La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa and allies resolved to send an open letter to the Ministerial Committee responsible for Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of their respective regional governmental bodies to demand climate justice and the adoption of peasant based solutions, such as Agroecology and Food Sovereignty. Read More [9] FEATURED PUBLICATIONS PEASANT AGROECOLOGY ACHIEVES CLIMATE JUSTICE - A PRIMER This primer is developed as part of the project Building Climate Justice Advocacy with small-scale farmers in Southern and Eastern Africa developed and implemented in partnership between Afrika Kontakt and La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC -SEAf), with input from allies. Download your copy here [10] _"PESTICIDES OUT!"_ EUROPEAN COORDINATION VIA CAMPESINA (ECVC) LAUNCHES A PEASANT AGROECOLOGY MANUAL Farmers and peasants are the victims of a system that relies on socially disastrous choices that seek to 'profit at any price'. These choices include encouraging an increase in production, producing ever-cheaper food, and imposing free trade and economic competition. How did we get here? What are the causes and effects of pesticide use? What are the alternatives? Download your copy here [11] FEATURED VIDEOS [12] The Fatality of Land Grabbing: Aggravating Climate Change and Undermining Peasant's Lives Watch Video [13] [14] Climate Change is not Gender Neutral Watch Video [15] 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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Important Information for the subscribers of Via Campesina Mailing list
by La Via Campesina 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Dear Subscribers of Via Campesina's general mailing list, In the context of new data privacy rules that came into force in European Union on 25 May 2018, we wish to inform all our subscribers a few things: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in EU is an appreciable effort to check the misuse of internet users' personal online data. As a global movement that respects people's right to privacy and as a movement where several of its members are subjected to varied levels of surveillance and repression in their respective countries, La Via Campesina recognises the importance, significance and necessity of such a law. We want to assure you that your privacy is of utmost importance to us. The only data we hold of newsletter subscribers is your email address and your name (in full or in parts) if you provided this while signing up [1]. We do not store any other personal data of subscribers and have never shared the information that we do hold with third parties. We would love to continue to keep in touch and share the important struggles and victories of the world's largest peasant movement with you. However, if you wish to stop receiving our updates, you are absolutely free to do so. You can do so by scrolling to the bottom of this page [1] and using the 'unsubcribe' option there. In accordance with the GDPR regulation, we delete all of your private data related to the La Via Campesina newsletter upon receipt of your un-subscribe request. Thank you. La Via Campesina Links: ------ [1] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en

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