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[Info EN] Press Release: Via Campesina will join 2016 World Social Forum to strengthen and advance food sovereignty and peasants’ rights
by La Via Campesina 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

VIA CAMPESINA WILL JOIN 2016 WORLD SOCIAL FORUM TO STRENGTHEN AND ADVANCE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND PEASANTS’ RIGHTS [1] Several delegates comprising women, men, youth, and representing peasants and migrant agricultural and rural workers from several regions of La Via Campesina, will carry messages of global solidarity and food sovereignty at the 2016 World Social Forum this August. The Forum, which is a collective call for a sustainable and inclusive world, will be held in Montreal, Canada from the 9th to 14th. La Via Campesina considers World Social Forum as an important space to build collective strengths of social movements worldwide - all of whom are fighting for social, economic, cultural and political justice. In Montreal, our delegates will collectively organize and participate in sessions that would address the questions of agrarian reform, climate justice, peasant led research, alternatives to corporate controlled food systems, people's sovereignty over corporate impunity, young peasants, the future of agriculture and many more. New generation of trade treaties such as TTIP, TTP, CETA, RCEP, threatening food sovereignty and the rights of peasants and rural working people will be denounced through mobilizations in Quebec. Such treaties include anti-people mechanisms such as the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)that not just override local and national judicial systems but also threat democracies. We will join other social movements and organisations worldwide in creating a collective strategy to counter and defeat such treaties aimed only at benefiting a few corporations. La Via Campesina reaffirms its solidarity to social justice movements that demand full rights to indigenous peoples, to migrants and to people of different racial, ethnic and religious background. We collectively raise our voices against racial discrimination and against policies that deny migrants peasants and people, their right to equity and safety. "In a context in which Québec farmers are being held hostage by an all-powerful union and an agricultural cartel, the Union Paysanne invites you to join it in celebrating and in making a renewed call for full freedom of association for farmers in Québec and in all parts of the world. We are calling for unity, for inclusion, for fraternity, and for farmers' autonomy. There is no food sovereignty without farmers's sovereignty! Globalize the struggle! Globalize hope!" Pierre-Olivier Brassard, young organic vegetable farmer, and administrator for Union Paysanne that is hosting the delegation. ~ENDS~ FOR MEDIA QUERIES AND SPOKESPEOPLE AVAILABILITY Carlos Marentes, LVC, cmarentess(a)gmail.com Abhilash, abhilash(a)viacampesina.org Benoit Girouard, Président Union Paysanne, M : 450-495-1910 Maxime Laplante, Vice-Président Union Paysanne, 418-926-2473 NOTES TO THE EDITOR: The complete schedule of events that La Via Campesina would be part of are available here for download [2] To follow updates and press releases from LVC during the events, visit www.viacampesina.org [3] or follow us on www.facebook.com/viacampesinaofficial [4] - On Twitter, we will be publishing regular updates in English (@via_campesina) ; Spanish (via_campesinaSP) and French (@viacampesinaFR) Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/actions-and-events-mainmenu-26/world-… [2] https://viacampesina.org/downloads/pdf/en/2016-08-04%20WSF%20EN%20-%20Sched… [3] http://www.viacampesina.org/ [4] http://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaofficial

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[Info EN] War crimes in Syria must stop – stop bombing citizens, food crops and vegetable markets!
by La Via Campesina 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

War crimes in Syria must stop - stop bombing citizens, food crops and vegetable markets! FROM THE 15TH GARDEN | Click here for online link [1] The war in Syria has become one of the biggest wars in recent history. More people than ever since World War II have been displaced. The number of people killed to date is estimated to be around half a million; those displaced around 12 million, those facing starvation in what have been named as "hunger sieges" are around 1 million (53 cities and communities, 50 of these by the Syrian regime), and at least 100 000 prisoners have disappeared in the regime's prisons. *1 Actions that constitute war crimes are conducted on a daily basis: hospitals, schools, and live-sustaining places like bakeries or vegetable markets have been deliberately and casually targeted by air forces in Syria now. These targeted bombings are systematic campaigns against civilians: sometimes more than three hospitals have been bombed within one day, often with the use of so called "double taps", bombing the place, waiting for the rescue responders and then bombing it a second time, often killing those who came for the rescue mission. *2 One of many examples in all the last years for targeting campaigns related to food have been bakeries and people lining up for bread in front of them. Inevitably these attacks on big gatherings of people waiting for bread were gruesome massacres, along with these attacks thousands of bakeries were destroyed, and the few that remained had to go underground. Other examples of targets are the crowded vegetable markets. All of these campaigns target the life-sustaining infrastructure of the population. To break down what "carpet bombing" actually means, just one example for a city that used to have around 120 000 citizens. It is called Maarat Al Numan and is located in the province of Idlib: All of its neighborhoods, its self-run schools, the newly built bakery of the united civil society actors there (producing 300 000 loaves of bread daily for the whole area), the water treatment systems offering clean water for 50 000 people in the region, and the grain storage of the farmers of the region have been targeted only in the last year. All in all the city has been constantly shelled through ought the last 4 years, this according to a member of the 15th Garden. These deliberate attacks are executed all over Syria in all liberated areas, they are well-documented and in a scale that continues over hundreds of kilometers. Systematic targeting of crowded places and those of basic needs for a civilian population constitute war crimes. Daily bombardments are ongoing in Syria, resulting in a relentless carnage. Just in these days the last route into the big city of Aleppo has been shut leading to a population of about 300 000 people under total siege, warfare and no route to escape. After several hospitals were reduced to rubble in the preparation of this siege and an average of several dozen people were killed every day, this April the international initiatives surrounding the struggle for human rights and liberation in Syria managed to do one of its biggest campaigns ever since the Syrian revolution began: The #AleppoIsBurning campaign. In numerous cities people held protests with very simplified but common slogans and wearing red clothes. This campaign actually lead to few days of ceasefire and for the first time proved to Syrians, that they are not alone. But this seize fire only lasted as long as the public attention lasted, now Aleppo is under siege and all international solidarity must be at work to step in. *3 Solidarity with the peasants and people of Syria is needed now more than ever. Through the 15th Garden we continue to resist this wretched war that has been put upon us. Despite thousands of farmers being arrested, disappeared, tortured and killed and in advance of the hunger sieges imposed on their communities by the regime, or the usurpation of control over local markets and certain territories by foreign interests as a result of development aid, the mining of agricultural lands by warring factions and fighting forces, the sniping or executions of gardeners and farmers, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of shepherds, there are women who are making gardens when their whole city is under siege, with food producing plants in every corner possible out of the snipers' aim. There are community gardens that built the capacity to feed thousands of people, there are farmers' networks for work and skill exchange, there are seed reproducers and sharers, there are bakeries built and re-built, developments of mobile grain mills and networks for educating communities in closed-cycle methods: like trash recycling, small scale bio gas producing and local fertilizing cycles. All over Syria food is being used as a weapon against the people and a tool to gain political control and to seek submission. Food baskets handed out by NGOs are rarely delivered in ways or places determined by the affected people themselves. They often are packed outside of Syria and often end up going into areas where farmers still work and thus cause them to lose the last of a meager possible income. Many areas where people are facing starvation do not receive any deliveries at all, for various reasons: because the international community does not act if the regime does not permit it or because the communities might not have submitted to the donors' preferred political powers. Development or emergency aid in the name of food security is now running rampant in Syria and in the long term will create dependency. This includes large amounts of hybrid seeds, and chemicals often being sent without any indication for workers-peasant protection. These come through very centralized national and international structures that work with big entities and not with peasants and grassroots communities struggling to keep food production going. It is crucial that political pressure be increased to stop the bombing of the Syrian population, to stop the targeted bombing of their hospitals, schools and vegetable gardens and markets, to stop the killing of thousands of civilians, and the displacements of millions. We urgently need support and solidarity as Syrian peasants trying to survive, to produce food to feed our people. ------------------------- _*1) The UN stopped counting the people killed in 2014, so the estimation is now based on data collected by various different human rights organizations)_ _Syrian campaign on the failures of UN in Syria: http://takingsides.thesyriacampaign.org/_ _Taking sides: The United Nations' loss of impartiality, independence and neutrality in Syria)_ _Syrian campaign on the hunger sieges: www.breakthesieges.org/en_ _The numbers of prisoners vary very much depending on organizations' access to information and standards, we mentioned the lowest possible number of 100 000, the highest estimates are mentioned at 500 000. https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/syria/rep… _*2) http://www.msf.org/en/article/syria-statement-dr-joanne-liu-international-p… _*3) to see how the protests enfolded worldwide: https://www.facebook.com/break.hunger.siege/?fref=ts_ Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-rights-…

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[Info EN] LVC Declaration on Trade, Markets and Development
by La Via Campesina 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

LVC DECLARATION ON TRADE, MARKETS AND DEVELOPMENT [1] [2]LVC DECLARATION ON TRADE, MARKETS AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF UNCTAD 2016, NAIROBI, KENYA _"Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations." _--_Nyeleni Declaration on Food Sovereignty (Mali, 2007)_ (Nairobi, July 19, 2016) In the context of the Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) scheduled for 17-22 July 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya, we of La Vía Campesina reiterate our commitment to Food Sovereignty and the Right to Food as well as our resolve to put an end to neoliberalism's so-called "free trade paradigm" and "market-driven development" schemes that serve only to consolidate corporate control over our food systems. As a UN body, we expect UNCTAD and its member states to prioritize democratic and participatory processes aimed at policies that successfully promote food sovereignty. UNCTAD should not be used to promote the very same Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), including the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in Africa, that one after another have resulted in more hunger, poverty, and exclusion for people around the world. La Vía Campesina is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. We defend peasant-based agroecological food systems as a way to promote social justice and dignity and we strongly oppose corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies that are destroying our food systems, our communities, and the environment. We are made up of 164 local and national organizations in 73 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Altogether, we represent about 200 million farmers. We are an autonomous, pluralist and multicultural movement, independent from any political, economic or other type of affiliation. ON UNCTAD We of La Via Campesina very much welcomed the 2015 publication of the UNCTAD Report titled "Smallholder Farmers and Sustainable Commodity Development" and its recognition of our vital role in food production and markets, as well as the need for governments and multilateral institutions to work directly with us in order to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, we strongly oppose the report's numerous recommendations, most of which support the commodification of our agricultural production. We firmly reject the report's underlying premise that only as successful profit seekers, or "business enterprises", are we a viable long-term source of food and nutrition for our people. We also denounce ongoing attempts to commodify food and nutrition, and remind all those gathered at UNCTAD 14 that food is a Human Right. The UNCTAD we are seeing in motion presents a free market driven neoliberal trade paradigm which stands in stark contrast to the food sovereignty paradigm where smallholder farmers are social, cultural, and historical actors that make decisions based on a diversity of personal, ethical, and cultural factors and not just based on profit, business and markets. Instead of corporate-backed trade promotion schemes, we want an UNCTAD that protects us from the destructive and secretive FTAs promoted by the undemocratic World Trade Organization (WTO) such as the TTIP, TPP, CETA, TiSA, EPAs, and their so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). We, the peasants of the world, currently feed the global majority, and we do so in spite of the numerous Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) aimed at displacing peasant production and trade worldwide. PEASANT-BASED PRODUCTION AND LOCAL MARKETS Globally, more than 80% of smallholders operate in local and domestic food markets, with the majority trading through informal means. These highly diverse markets are the ones through which most of the food consumed in the world transits. They operate within territorial spaces that can range from local to transboundary to regional and may be located in rural, peri-urban or urban contexts. These markets are directly linked to local, national and/or regional food systems: the food concerned is produced, processed, traded and consumed within a given space and the value added is retained and shared there, helping to create employment. They can take place in structured arrangements or in more ad hoc or informal ways which provide greater flexibility for smallholders and fewer barriers to entry and more control over prices and market conditions. They perform multiple functions beyond commodity exchange, acting as space for social interaction and exchange of knowledge. These are the most important markets, especially for rural women, when it comes to inclusion and access, contributing significantly to our fulfilment of our right to food and nutrition. Despite their importance, informal markets are often overlooked in data collection systems which impacts negatively on the evidence base for informing public policies. As women smallholders mostly operate in informal markets, their essential contribution to food systems, including food distribution, and economic growth remains largely invisible in trade and development policy-making processes and, they face particular socio-economic barriers in accessing resources and marketing opportunities resulting in further marginalization and violation of their rights. Given their importance for food security and smallholder livelihoods, public policies and investments should be oriented towards strengthening, expanding and protecting local and domestic peasant-fed markets. We call on the UNCTAD and its member states to support the collection of comprehensive data on local, domestic and informal-both rural and urban-markets linked to territories to improve the evidence base for policies, including sex-disaggregated data, and incorporating this as a regular aspect of national and international data collection systems. We recommend transparent and fair pricing of all agricultural products that provides full remuneration for smallholders' work and their own investments, including rural women. Pricing policies should give smallholders access to timely and affordable market information to enable them to make informed decisions on what, when and where to sell, guarding against the abuse of buyer power, particularly in concentrated markets. We demand public and institutional procurement programs that allow smallholders to rely on regular and stable demand for agricultural products at fair prices and for consumers to access healthy, nutritious, diverse, fresh and locally produced food, including during crises and conflicts. We want these procurement programs to service public institutions such as schools, hospitals, prisons, homes for the elderly and public servants' canteens, by providing food produced by smallholders through participatory mechanisms involving them in the process. We reiterate our calls for a permanent solution to the public stockholding issue - considering the imbalances in the domestic support allowances accorded to developed countries - and our commitment to building these robust public and institutional procurement programs. For these to succeed, we remind national governments that they must guarantee fair and equitable access to land, water, territory, and biodiversity, referring them to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. Food is a human right and must not be treated like a simple commodity. We call on the 2016 UNCTAD Conference to rethink how it addresses the issue of food and its relationship to trade and development. Peasants are at the heart of food production and what we urgently need is Food Sovereignty - requiring the protection and renationalization of national food markets, the promotion of local circuits of production and consumption, the struggle for land, the defense of the territories of indigenous peoples, and comprehensive agrarian reform -- not the false promises of Green Revolution driven input- and capital-intensive and dependent production systems that operate under the false premise of competitiveness that only works when it undermines the livelihoods of farmers elsewhere. We remind governments that they have obligations to meet when it comes to providing quality public services required for a dignified life in the countryside (health, education, etc.), and that these obligations cannot be met without fair prices that protect local farmers from profit-hungry transnational corporations (TNCs) and an international trade system that currently only serves the interests of agribusiness and other corporate elites. As a UN body, UNCTAD should strive to be coherent with its other ongoing efforts, including but not limited to the effective realization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Together with allies in Nairobi, and throughout the world, we invite all to join us in the struggle for Food Sovereignty and an end to corporate-led "free trade" promoted through undemocratic institutions such as the WTO. FOOD IS A RIGHT, NOT A COMMODITY! FOOD SOVEREIGNTY NOW! GLOBALIZE STRUGGLE! GLOBALIZE HOPE! Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/actions-and-events-mainmenu-26/stop-f… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/images/2014%20Logo.jpg

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[Info EN] La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | June, 2016
by La Via Campesina 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

-------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: MailChimp Template Test - "La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | June, 2016" DATE: 2016-07-12 11:20 FROM: <lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org> TO: <viacampesina(a)viacampesina.org> La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | June, 2016 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] VIITH CONFERENCE - LAUNCH EVENT IN DERIO, BASQUE ------------------------- [3] On June 10th, La Via Campesina, together with members of the International Coordination Committee, held a public event in Derio to mark the beginning of the process leading to the 7th International Conference, which will be held in the Basque country in July 2017. The International Conferences take place every four years. They constitute La Via Campesina's highest collective decision-making body and its most important space for debate and discussion and for developing a mobilisation agenda for the peasant and farmer movement. Click to read the Press Release [3] NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD OPINION: TRADITIONAL CROPS KEEP OUR CULTURE ALIVE ------------------------- Demand for foods based on traditional crops, with a clear link to local culture, is increasing in Zimbabwe. In this coliumn written for farming Matters, Elizabeth Mpofu's argues that policy needs to protect traditional crops and varieties, rather than introduce costly new ones, which require agrochemicals that damage nature and our health. Read More [4] PEOPLE IN PANAMA, SRI LANKA, PROTEST AGAIN DEMANDING THEIR LANDS BACK ------------------------- Several hunderd people protested in Panama, Sri Lanka, on the 21st of June, demanding justice and repatriation on the land from which they were forced to evict in 2010 by the then ruling government. Read More [5] KWPA AND SPI UNDERTAKE FARMER TO FARMER EXCHANGE PROGRAM IN INDONESIA ------------------------- A brief report of the farmer to farmer exchange on agroecology that was held in Jakarta and Bogor, Indonesia in February. by Korean Women Peasant Association (KWPA) and SPI (Indonesian Peasants' Union). Read More [6] GERMAN DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY (BMZ) MUST PUT SMALL FARMERS IN FOCUS ------------------------- In a press note released on 23rd June, AbL (Small Farmers Union in Germany and member of La Via Campesina), along with FIAN Germany has called upon the German Develeopment Ministry(BMZ), to put its focus on Small Farmers and agro-ecological practices. Read More [7] APPEAL TO THE WORLD'S FREE PEOPLE: UAWC CONDEMNS THE KILLING OF BERTA CÁCERES ------------------------- In coordination with other human rights defenders and all free world people, The UAWC urgently calls to raise the voices and denounce the ongoing crimes against Human right defenders all over the World, arrange international and national social movements and activities in solidarity with Cáceres's family, and the small farmers in Honduras and all over the World. Read More [8] RAMONA AND ANGEL AT CFS NEGOTIATIONS ------------------------- At the CFS negotiations on Connecting Small Holders to Markets, being held in Rome on the 8th and 9th of June 2016, Ramona Duminicioiu, Angel Strappazon and Javier Sanchez were among the speakers who intervened through the two days. Ramona Duminicioiu from Eco Ruralis/ECVC, Roumania intervened on the CFS Open-Ended Working Group on markets linked to local, national and/or regional food systems. Angel Strappazon, from CLOC-VC, Argentina, intervened in defense of institutional procurement programs. Read More [9] ARTICLE: SUPPORT PRICE OFFERED BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO FARMERS INADEQUATE ------------------------- In this article published in The Wire, S. Kannaiyan, General Secretary of the South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements (SICCFM) calls for an increase in support price for paddy and strengthening of public funded research institutions. Read More [10] NFU AT CANADIAN MILK MATTERS RALLIES ON PARLIAMENT HILL AND IN PEI ------------------------- Diafiltered milk is a highly concentrated milk protein ingredient that is being produced by American dairy processors for export to Canada as a way to avoid tariffs. Trade regulations define it as "not milk", however, imported diafiltered milk is increasingly being used in cheese production instead of actual milk produced by Canadian farmers on Canadian farms. Read More [11] MST-GOIÁS STATEMENT ON THE POLICY OF HARASSMENT AGAINST FIGHTERS FOR AGRARIAN REFORM ------------------------- On Monday May 30, the intellectual and activist for agrarian reform Jose Valdir Misnerovicz who was in Veranópolis, in Rio Grande do Sul, was surprised by a coordinated operation by the Civil Police of Rio Grande do Sul and Goiás for his arrest. Read More [12] LANDWORKERS' ALLIANCE DEMAND RECOGNITION FOR SMALL-FARMS IN POST BREXIT POLICIES ------------------------- It is with some concern that The Landworkers' Alliance (LWA) looks forward at the possibilities for British food and agricultural policies post-Brexit. The task will require huge effort and ingenuity on behalf of political decision makers if it is to support producers, protect the environment and prioritize access to healthy, nutritious food for all. Read More [13] CHEAP IMPORTS CAUSE MASSIVE FALL IN COCONUT PRICES IN INDIA. FARMERS PROTEST. ------------------------- Coconut farmers in the State of Karnataka, took to the streets to protest against massive fall in coconut prices, which they allege is due to cheap imports from Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. Read More [14] FARMERS' UNION IN INDIA DEMAND EXCLUSION OF FARMING FROM WTO ------------------------- On the occassion of conclusion of the three-day national level thought camp of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) in Haridwar on Sunday, the farmers body passed a nine-demand resolution addressed to Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi and handed it over to the District Magistrate there to send it to the PM. Read More [15] FULL TEXT: MINJUWHA BAEK'S SPEECH AT THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ------------------------- Mr. Namgi Baek, a farmer, has been lying unconscious in a hospital bed in Seoul, after being brutally hit by a water cannon during a peasant protest on November 14, 2015. Ms. Minjuwha Beak, daughter of Brother Baek, delivered a short speech before the UN Human Rights council in June, seeking justice for her father, for union leader Mr. Sang-kyun Han and hundreds of peasants under various forms of attack. Read More [16] TTIP AND CETA: WE WON'T LET THEM TRADE US AWAY ------------------------- The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as well as its "sister" CETA (Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement) are an assault on sustainable farming on both sides of the Atlantic. TTIP and CETA will affect food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection, lead to further intensification and corporate concentration of agriculture and threaten peasants' survival as well as citizens' health. Read More [17] PEASANT MEMBERS OF SPI DEMAND IMMEDIATE RESOLUTION TO LAND DISPUTE AT UPT, BALI VILLAGE ------------------------- Hundreds of peasant members of the Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI) Katingan, Central Kalimantan, took part in an action demanding immediate resolution of the land dispute at Transmigration Settlement Unit of Bali Village, District Malan Island. Read More [18] SMALL HOLDER FARMERS ARE CRUCIAL TO ENSURE FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION: JAVIER SANCHEZ AT CFS ------------------------- Smallholders engage in many interrelated markets, but also face challenges in securing market access and eliciting benefits to support healthy livelihoods. They have an essential role to play in ensuring food security and nutrition today and tomorrow. Read More [19] UAWC STATEMENT ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY ------------------------- Since 1967, the Palestinian environment has suffered from numerous problems due to the occupation's violations starting from its confiscation of the Palestinian land and depriving its original owners to control their own natural resources, to their theft of more than 85% of our water sources, which led to the decline of the Palestinian person's share to less than 90m3 per year, in addition to the contamination of our groundwater with waste water. Read More [20] UAWC STATEMENT ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY ------------------------- Following the European agricultural ministers' informal Council meeting on 30 and 31 May in the Netherlands, the European Coordination Via Campesina1 examined the document "Food for the future - the future of food" proposed by the Dutch EU Presidency to kick-off discussions on the future of the CAP after 2020, as well as the Council's discussions. Read More [21] PEOPLE'S MANUAL: GUIDELINES ON GOVERNANCE OF LAND, FISHERIES AND FORESTS ------------------------- People's Manual is a pedagogical and didactic guide, which aims to make it easier to understand the Guidelines and to provide a practical approach to people on how to use them in their struggles. Download the Publication [22] NEW EDITION OF THE NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER IS NOW ONLINE! ------------------------- Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a struggle for territory. This will require forging unions between -on one side- peasant farmers, day laborers, indigenous peoples, nomad shepherds, artisan fishermen, forest peoples and other rural communities, and -on another- city dwellers, especially those in suburban communities and consumers. Download [23] [24] MEET THE TTIP CAMPAIGNERS - BBC REPORT ------------------------- The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, is a deal to cut tariffs and regulatory barriers to trade between the US and EU countries, making it easier for companies on both sides of the Atlantic to access each other's markets. Industries it would affect include pharmaceuticals, cars, energy, finance, chemicals, clothing and food and drink. But not everyone believes it would be a good thing, as the BBC's Catrin Nye reports. Watch it on Via Campesina TV [25] [26] PUN PUN FARM AND A PHILOSOPHY FOR LIFE | BY THE SOURCE PROJECT ------------------------- Pun Pun is a small organic farm, seed saving center, and sustainable living and learning center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Farmers here strive to find more ways to live a more self reliant lifestyle by growing organic food, building their own natural homes, and experimenting with low tech appropriate technologies. They seek to bring back the tradition of seed saving amongst farmers and growers by collecting, propagating, and exchanging indigenous and rare varieties. Watch it on Via Campesina TV [27] [26] PODCAST: BLAIN SNIPSTAL SPEAKS TO THE SECRET INGREDIENT ------------------------- "We can produce all the great food in the world, but if we're not working to transform the very nature of the relations of power in the food system, having good food will be null and void." - Blain Snipstal, La Via Campesina. On 'The Secret Ingredient' Raj Patel, Tom Philpott, and Rebecca McInroy talked to peasant farmer Blain Snipstal about Agroecology, food sovereignty, and class struggle. Listen to the Podcast on Via Campesina TV [28] 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 on the Donate button on our home page [29] and following the link to our PayPal account. [30] La Via Campesina's Annual Report for the year 2015 is out and is available for download in three languages. The report has been made possible by the collective action and contribution of all its members and allies. 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[Info EN] Making the Switch: Converting Your Nonprofit Into a For-Profit
by La Vía Campesina 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

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[Info EN] Truth on Orlando Shooting and HildaBeast!
by La Vía Campesina 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

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[Info EN] La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | May, 2016
by La Vía Campesina 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | May, 2016 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] La Via Campesina's Annual Report for the year 2015 is out and is available for download in three languages. The report has been made possible by the collective action and contribution of all its members and allies. Download English Version [3] Download Spanish Version [4] Download French Version [5] MONTH OF MAY WITNESS THREE CRUCIAL ENGAGEMENTS AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL BY LA VIA CAMPESINA ------------------------- While peasant actions on the ground continued in the form of #MayDay and #MarchAgainstMonsanto and several other mobilizations, the month of May was crucial on three fronts: the engagement with the CSM within of FAO on the question of connecting small hold farmers to territorial markets; the push for a global declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas; and a public hearing at the European Parliament to bring forth human rights violations and abuses by transnational corporations across the world. This edition of the newsletter carries updates about all these and more. NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD JOINT STATEMENT: ON UN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS ------------------------- We are representatives of peasants, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fishers and rural workers from around the globe, between us representing many millions of rural people, from La Via Campesina along with CETIM, FIAN International and other human rights organizations. READ MORE [6] WHAT IS AT STAKE IN THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR A PEASANT RIGHTS' DECLARATION? ------------------------- _Vincent Delobel, member of La Via Campesina, during the third session of the intergovernmental working group on a United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. _ READ MORE [7] INDUSTRY BENEFITS BUT DOES NOT PAY ITS DUES. PATENTS ARE AN ASSAULT ON GENETIC RESOURCES _Guy Kastler from Via Campesina argues in this article. _ ------------------------- Patents increasingly undermine the strong legal edifice patiently constructed by UPOV. However, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture guarantees free access to the main industrial resource of plant breeders - peasants' seeds collected from farms across the world. READ MORE [8] REPORT: FARM SUCCESSION IN ROMANIA | ECO RURALIS ------------------------- This report looks specifically at Romania, which reflects the global statistics on aging peasants. In Romania, 66.4% of peasants are over 55 years old and only 7.3% are under 35 years of age. READ MORE [9] MOBILISATION CALL: 2ND NYÉLÉNI EUROPE FORUM FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ------------------------- The 2nd Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty will be organised around 5 thematic axes, and oriented towards 4 goals. READ MORE [10] ZIMSOFF AND UCAMA FARMERS JOIN HANDS TO FIGHT FOR FARMER SAVED SEEDS ------------------------- Farmer visits were arranged to identify good practices of community based seed systems and to develop a pilot collaborative programme on 'smallholder farmer managed seed systems' between the two organisations. READ MORE [11] EVENT INVITE: 'TTIP - TRADING AWAY OUR FOOD AND FARMERS?' ------------------------- Civil society groups and farming organisations have expressed concern that the TTIP will lead to the further intensification and corporate concentration of agriculture on both sides of the Atlantic, threatening family farms' survival and citizen's health. READ MORE [12] HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY TNCS | PUBLIC HEARING AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ------------------------- In order to prepare the next meeting of the Working Group and put together the efforts and experience of activists and Human Rights lawyers from all over the worlds, GUE/NGL, PODEMOS, the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, Friends of the Earth International, the Centre Europe Tiers-Monde (CETIM) and the Transnational Institute organized a Public Hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels. La Via Campesina also represented itself at the public hearing. READ MORE [13] ARTICLE 19-RIGHT TO LAND AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES- ABSOLUTELY UNNEGOTIABLE ------------------------- An intervention by David Jelinek of ÖBV- Via Campesina Austria, during the third session of the intergovernmental working group on a United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas READ MORE [14] INDONESIAN PEASANTS UNION (SPI) HOLD A CONSULTATION ON PEASANT RIGHTS _In the run upto the Geneva consultation_ ------------------------- Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI, Indonesia Peasants Union) and La Via Campesina (international peasants movement) held a Regional Consultation, Training and Meetings on Peasant Rights in PKBI Guesthouse, Jakarta, April 26 to 29, 2016. READ MORE [15] INTERVENTION BY LA VIA CAMPESINA AT THE '30TH FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA', IN TURKEY ------------------------- Adnan Çobanoğlu from the Confederation of Farmers' Unions (ÇİFTÇİ-SEN), a member organization of La Via Campesina, made a few important interventions at the 30th FAO Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia, being held in Antalya, Turkey. READ MORE [16] ECVC PUSHES FOR A UNITED FRONT IN DEFENSE OF SEEDS ------------------------- The European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) Seed Group organized a meeting on April 22th to 24th at the Farm in Dottenfelder Hof in the periphery of Frankfort (Germany), in order to intensify information exchanges on the breeding, exchange and use of seeds. READ MORE [17] MST STATEMENT ON THE SUSPENSION OF PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF ------------------------- The Landless Workers Movement (MST) publicly expresses its disgust and dissatisfaction regarding the decision of the Senate, this Thursday (12), in admitting the process of impeachment against President Dilma Roussef and temporarily withdrawing her from the post. READ MORE [18] HONDURAS: STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO CRIMINALISATION OF THE PEASANT MOVEMENTS ------------------------- Having made a thorough analysis of the social situation in Honduras, particularly with regard to the peasant and indigenous movements, the Political Coordination Committee of the CLOC-La Vía Campesina Central America, composed of representatives from Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, meeting together in Tegucigalpa, issued the following statement: READ MORE [19] SEED CARAVAN THROUGH FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY ------------------------- The idea of the caravan is to be in direct exchange with farmers who actively engage in seeds work. To do so, we do not want to sit in a lecture hall and listen passively, but to actively visit farms in Southern Germany, Switzerland and in France that work with seeds in their everyday farm work. READ MORE [20] BAFLF: "WTO TREATY ON SUBSIDY WITHDRAWAL FROM AGRICULTURE SUICIDAL" ------------------------- Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation has termed the recent WTO treaty on subsidy withdrawal from agriculture as suicidal for the food security of Bangladesh. READ MORE [21] [22] The _March against Monsanto_, that took place around the world on May 21, is a people's response to denounce intensive agriculture , using genetically modified seeds (GMOs) and dependent toxic pesticides. Monsanto is the global symbol but not the sole representative (Dow Chemical , Syngenta, Bayer, BASF , DuPont, Limagrain and so forth) of the adverse impact of industrial agricultural system on social, environmental and health systems. To watch the image slideshow, click here [22]. [23] 'GREENING THE REVOLUTION' - A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT FOOD JUSTICE ------------------------- An 80-minute, HD award-winning documentary about food justice -- filmed in Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Kenya, Zambia, India, Brazil and across the United States. "Greening the Revolution" features interviews with small farmers and revolutionaries, political intellectuals such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and Vandana Shiva, as well as government/corporate officials such as the director of the FDA and the government relations executive for Monsanto (yes, an interview with Monsanto. Watch it on Via Campesina TV [24] [25] 'ARE WE COAL?' - SHORT FILM ------------------------- A film that exposes human rights violations caused by mining company Vale and the impacts of ProSavana Project in Mozambique Watch it on Via Campesina TV [26] [27] 'FIGHTING FOR SEEDS AND OIL' - SHORT FILM ------------------------- Tanzania is at the forefront in the battle for control over Africa's food system. With the help of the UK government (and others in the G7) corporations are scrambling to expand their markets in seeds, fertilisers, agrochemicals and land. But small-scale farmer organisations are fighting back by strengthening farmers' knowledge of land, seeds and soil. Aid donors need to decide; is aid money there to help small-scale farmers get better access to chemical free technologies or is it simply to expand the market reach of large corporations? Watch it on Via Campesina TV [28] 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 on the Donate button on our home page [29] and following the link to our PayPal account. [30] [31] Follow us on twitter [31] [32] Find us on Facebook [32] [33] Subsribe our Vimeo Channel [33] To unsubscribe from the distribution list, questions or comments, write to LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG WEBSITE: www.viacampesina.org TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here [34] Links: ------ [1] https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=7cgPKKpQWIKC… [2] http://ttps://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en [3] http://viacampesina.org/downloads/pdf/en/EN-annual-report-2015.pdf [4] http://viacampesina.org/downloads/pdf/sp/ES-annual-report-2015.pdf [5] http://viacampesina.org/downloads/pdf/fr/FR-annual-report-2015.pdf [6] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-righ… [7] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-righ… [8] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversi… [9] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/publications-mainmenu-30/2057-repo… [10] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/2-uncategorised/2055-mobilisation-… [11] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversi… [12] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/actions-and-events-mainmenu-26/10-… [13] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/actions-and-events-mainmenu-26/sto… [14] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-righ… [15] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/news-from-the-regions-mainmenu-29/… [16] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/sustainabl… [17] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversi… [18] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-righ… [19] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-righ… [20] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversi… [21] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/food-sovereign… [22] https://tv.viacampesina.org/Citoyens-du-monde-en-marche-contre?lang=en [23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DEp7MVIuZ4 [24] https://tv.viacampesina.org/Greening-the-Revolution-Full?lang=en [25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jICcw3AupXs [26] https://tv.viacampesina.org/Are-we-coal?lang=en [27] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X1CPqNztlE [28] https://tv.viacampesina.org/Fighting-for-seeds-and-soil?lang=en [29] http://www.viacampesina.org/ [30] https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=IK5Hgl6MlPxD… [31] http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina [32] https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/ [33] https://vimeo.com/viacampesina [34] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en

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[Info EN] Arab region
by La Vía Campesina 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Dear all, I am very much involved in land governance / land management issues in Arab countries. I am wondering if via- campesina has any partners in the Arab region. Or are there any contemporary land reform-related documents or actions concerning Arab countries. With kind regards Willi Zimmermann /Land policy advisor// //Leipzig// //Germany/

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[Info EN] Land Reform and food sovereignty-new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter now available!
by La Vía Campesina 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

LAND REFORM AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [1] Published on Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:36 [2]THE NEW EDITION OF THE NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER IS NOW ONLINE! Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a struggle for territory. This will require forging unions between -on one side- peasant farmers, day laborers, indigenous peoples, nomad shepherds, artisan fishermen, forest peoples and other rural communities, and -on another- city dwellers, especially those in suburban communities and consumers. It will require producing healthy food using agroecology and know-how handed down from our ancestors and steeped in popular traditions. We must show that land in community hands is better for society and Mother Earth than land which is at the mercy of capital. Click here [3]to download the English edition or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org [4]! Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/publications-mainmenu-30/2075-land-ref… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/2016-06-14-land%20and%20food%20Nyeleni%20… [3] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/stories/pdf/2016_06_14_Nyeleni_Newsletter… [4] http://www.nyeleni.org/

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[Info EN] International Launch of La Via Campesina’s 7th International Conference
by La Vía Campesina 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH OF LA VIA CAMPESINA'S 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE [1] Published on Tuesday, 14 June 2016 03:54 [2]LA VIA CAMPESINA PRESS RELEASE (June 13th, 2016) On June 10th, La Via Campesina, together with members of the Political Coordination Committee, held a public event in Derio to mark the beginning of the process leading to the 7th International Conference, which will be held in the Basque country in July 2017. The International Conferences take place every four years. They constitute La Via Campesina's highest collective decision-making body and its most important space for debate and discussion and for developing a mobilisation agenda for the peasant and farmer movement. La Vía Campesina has constructed a global and politicised peasant and farmer identity that is connected to the land and to the building of Food Sovereignty, through the provision of healthy, agroecologically-produced food for the population. It is opposed to the neoliberal agribusiness model and to the large multinational corporations as well as to the support that they receive from governments. Its member organisations represent the sectors that have been most affected by the globalisation of food production: small and medium farmers, farmworkers, the landless, rural women, indigenous peoples. La Via Campesina has brought together organisations from all over the world, effacing the division between the global North and South. At the present time, it is comprised of 9 regions with member organisations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. La Vía Campesina's previous six International Conferences took place in Mons, Belgium (1993); Tlaxcala, Mexico (1996); Bangalore, India (2000); Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004), Maputo, Mozambique (2008) y Jakarta, Indonesia (2013). "We have created a political heritage based on a common vision, which has helped us to understand the world and the future, and which has allowed us to develop a capacity for mobilisation that is both local and global. We realise that all over the world women and men peasants and small-scale farmers have the same problems and that they need to be united in facing them", said Marina Dos Santos, a member of the International Coordinating Committee. In little more than twenty years, La Vía Campesina has become one of the world's largest social movements and perhaps the most representative movement in the history of agriculture. Today, La Vía Campesina is present in 73 countries; it thas 164 member organisations with a total membership of more than 200 million people, who have joined together to change the world. VÍDEO 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LA VÍA CAMPESINA "IF WE SOW SOLIDARITY, WE WILL HARVEST STRENGTH." This videoclip and song have been produced to accompany the activities that will be taking place in conjunction with La Via Campesina's 7th International Conference. The words were written by the writer Joseba Sarrionaindia and the singers are from the group "En tol Sarmiento" with the participation of Ines Osinaga (Gose). Watch and share the video, here. [3] FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.viacampesina.org [4] _ _ Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/our-conferences-mainmenu-28/2074-inter… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/Foto%20Comunicado%20VII%20Conferencia.jpg [3] https://tv.viacampesina.org/La-Via-Campesina-7th-Conference?lang=fr [4] http://www.viacampesina.org/

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