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[Info EN] Peasants’ rights belong to peasants! Don’t take a single one away!
by La Vía Campesina 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Peasants' rights belong to peasants! Don't take a single one away! [1] Published on Saturday, 10 October 2015 00:33 FINAL STATEMENT OF LA VIA CAMPESINA DURING THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE. ROME, OCTOBER 9TH, 2015 [2] _Thank you Mr. Chair. Ladies and Gentlemen,_ 30 years ago, in this very same room, civil society already suggested the debate on farmers' rights to the FAO. Now, 30 years have gone by; an entire generation. Finally, the Treaty was approved but in reality, its implementation is still incomplete. Together with many farmers' seed networks from across the world, La Via Campesina has warned about the risk of abuses created by the collaboration between the Secretariat and Divseek regarding the access to plant genetic resources and Farmers' Rights. The time has come to reiterate our warning: it must not be allowed that the violations of the principles and rules of governance of the Treaty lead to its destruction. Now, it seems that the Treaty is becoming a "gigabyte treaty" which does not defend farmers' rights, in situ conservation, nor peasant seeds. Given the speed at which the negotiations on the Global Information System are taking place, the Treaty must cease to cooperate with DivSeek. Within the next few years, all genetic material held in public germplasm banks will be sequenced and available for corporations to access without having to sign a SMTA (Standard Material Transfer Agreement). This is a violation of the Treaty. We take the Governing Body's decision to delve into this issue into account. However, we fear that once this will be done, damage will be irreversible. All resources, as they become "dematerialized" will end up becoming a part of the patenting game. La Via Campesina thanks the Governing Body for having permitted civil society to suggest a space which enables greater participation. However, we are outraged by the Governing Body's decision to leave it in the hands of agricultural research, UPOV and WIPO to define farmers' rights, without having foreseen participation of national and international peasants' organizations, which are the ones that keep and renew the diversity of seeds in their fields. La Via Campesina thanks the numerous countries which have supported our suggestions. We also thank the Indonesian government for offering to host the debate on farmers' rights. Nevertheless, we decry the behavior of two countries which have set stumbling blocks in the way of any positive decisions in favor of farmers' rights. Doors for increased peasant participation could be opened. But to do so, first, governments must assume their responsibilities, cooperate fully and open these doors in their own countries. The difficulty in realizing Farmers' Rights is due to the fear of corporations. But we, peasants, are not afraid. The agro industrial system is depleted. It is destroying our biodiversity, our local seeds and production systems. And they do not have a "Plan B". What will happen when all this comes to an end? For industry, the priority is to maximize profits, as quickly as possible. Quite to the contrary, the priority, for peasants' is to feed the world's population and maintain biodiversity, the basis of food production. Governments are responsible for making citizens, city dwellers, consumers and workers participate in this debate. But if governments do not fulfill their duty, La Via Campesina will take the initiative to raise awareness among citizens. La Via Campesina will take action in every country, so that peasants can participate in defining and implementing their own rights as stipulated in the Treaty. _PEASANTS’ RIGHTS BELONG TO PEASANTS!_ _DON’T TAKE A SINGLE ONE AWAY!_ Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversity-a… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/Foto%20LVC%20Semillas.jpg

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[Info EN] An Open Letter - Threats in Colombia: Serious Concern regarding lack of guarantees
by La Vía Campesina 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

An Open Letter - Threats in Colombia: Serious Concern regarding lack of guarantees [1] Published on Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:02 TO THE PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA TO THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE, AND THE UNITED STATES TO PUBLIC OPINION October 13th, 2015 _Subject: Threats in Colombia: Serious Concern regarding lack of guarantees_ The government of Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrilla movement recently announced that they had reached an agreement on the topic of Justice, one of the subject under discussion in their ongoing talks in Havana. This is an important step, allowing us to look forward with optimism to the possible signature of an agreement that will bring to an end the armed conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC guerillas after more than 60 years of war, we believe that this is a possibility that must not be lost. Furthermore, we hope that talks, leading to an eventual agreement, will soon be started with the ELN guerrilla movement. At the same time, we see with grave concern that, although there is talk of peace, there are no safeguards for the activities of the social organisations that are working to defend social rights and to oppose an economic model that is deepening inequality and that violates fundamental rights. We observe that human rights defenders, leaders of social movements, parties of the Left, people who are trying to recover their land, and independent journalists continue to be the victims of threats, acts of harassment, attacks and assassinations that are perpetrated by paramilitary groups such as the Urabeños, the Rastrojos, Aguilas Negras or Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia, and others. As was noted in the latest report on attacks against human rights defenders from Front Line Defenders, in 2014 Colombia was the country where there were the most assassinations of human rights defenders, with a total of 42 victims. The "We are Defenders" programme has signalled the fact that in the first 6 months of 2015 alone 399 acts of aggression were committed against human rights defenders and leaders of social movements; 34 human rights defenders were assassinated. We particularly want to draw attention to the following recent incidents: On October 6th, 2015, a threat signed by the paramilitary group Águilas Negras was sent to 8 people and 3 organisations. We want to stress the targetting of Eberto Díaz, member of Fensuagro and a leader of La Via Campesina International, and of several leaders and spokespeople of the Agrarian, Peasant, Ethnic, and Popular Summit, as well as of representatives of the trade union movement and social organisations, and independent journalists - including: Javier Betancourt, Andrés Gil, Carlos Ancízar Rico, Guevara Robert Daza, Jaime Cortez Suarez, la Guardia indígena, Prensa Rural, Julio Roberto Gómez, Jesús Elkin Rodríguez Moya and the CGT (General Confederation of Labour). This is not a question of an isolated incident. At the end of September, a pamphlet was circulated bearing the signature of "the capital bloc of the águilas negras". The pamphlet contained threats against recognised communications media, but its main message concerned more than 100 members of social and human rights organisations, members of the office of the Mayor of Bogotá, and other people connected with local peace processes - all of whom were declared to be military targets. To the foregoing must be added: assassinations, disappearances, and threats against social movement leaders in different regions of the country. These incidents raise the question as to whether the limited security measures offered by the government are sufficient or effective. Conversely, the incidents are evidence of the absence of safeguards for the essential work of human rights advocacy. This situation confirms the existence of important anti-peace forces which want to maintain a state of permanent conflict, in order to further their own interests. If these criminal groups, whether they be called paramilitaries or "bacrim" (criminal bands), are not disbanded and brought before the law - together with those members of the public security forces who maintain ties with them -- we are certain that they will become the seed from which renewed conflict will grow. Only a Peace with guarantees of respect for human rights, and real guarantees for the work of social organisations in the defence of human rights, is a Peace with prospects of lasting. It is imperative that the Colombian State take decisive action and that it disband the paramilitary groups. In addition, the international community of friends of the Colombian peace process: Governments, representatives of civil society, churches, and international organisations, must state firmly and clearly their opposition to the actions of these groups and their support for the legitimate and democratic activities of the different political forces and social movements. We invite the European Union, in accordance with its own commitment to human rights, to observe and accompany the work of human rights defenders in Colombia. _Signing Organisations:_ * Alianza por la Justicia Global * All Nepal Peasants' Federation * Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition * Asociacion Sindical de Trabajadores Bananeros Agricolas y Campesinos * Attac * Canadian Community Economic Development Network * Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos "Segundo Montes Mozo S.J." * Centro Internazionale Crocevia * Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores/as de las Americas * Confédération Paysanne * Consejo Latinoamericano de Iglesias * Convergence globale des luttes de la Terre et Eau Ouest Africaine * Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres * Ecologistas en Accion * Farmworker Association of Florida * FOS Andes * Fundacion Mundubat * Global Forest Coalition * GRAIN * Grupo Sur * Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy * La Vía Campesina * México vía Berlin * Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l'Amitié entre les peuples * Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo * Réseau Maghrébin d'Associations de Développement Local en milieu Rural * Sindicato Galego Labrego * SOA Watch Austin * SOLdePaz-Pachakuti * Solidaridad Suecia - America Latina * Transnational Institute * Union Paysanne * Uniterre * World Forum of Fisher Peoples Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-rights-m…

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[Info EN] 16th October - International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against transnational corporations
by La Vía Campesina 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

16th October - International Day of Action for Peoples' Food Sovereignty and against transnational corporations [1] Published on Monday, 12 October 2015 19:32 CALL FOR ACTION: _AS THE WORLD MARKS WORLD FOOD DAY ON THE 16TH OCTOBER, WE CALL FOR TRUE SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, AND FOR AN END TO THE CORPORATE CONTROL OF OUR FOOD AND OUR LIVES. _ [2](Watch the trailer of the video "Together we can cool the planet! [3]" to be launched this October 16) (Harare, October 12, 2015) La Via Campesina calls its members and allies, and civil society organizations to mobilize and organize actions on October 16th, THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR PEOPLES’ FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (TNCS). The current climate, hunger and migrant and refugee crises affecting millions of peasants, small farmers, families, especially women and youth show that corporate solutions are false and won't yield human dignity. TNCs displace and dispossess millions of peasants and family farmers, women and men of their land, forests, water and territories to set up profit seeking destructive enterprises.Globally, over 1.2 billion peasants and their families : ensure food sovereignty and the right to food by providing up to 80% of locally consumed food and cool the planet and conserve biodiversity and seeds. On October 16th, let us raise our voices and resist land grabbing,_so-called climate smart agriculture_ laden with agro-toxins and genetically-modified seeds; and call for a radical transformation towards a fair and decent food system for all. _We continue to propose wider adoption of agroecology and the construction of people's food sovereignty._ The power and impunity of TNCs through _"bribery democracy"_ stifles peoples' voices in_policies and legislative processes_ at all levels. Democracy wanes as governing classes scheme with TNCs in search for more private profits. They use Free Trade Agreements (TTIP, CETA, TTP, EPAs etc.) to dominate, discriminate and monopolize in an attempt to survive the capitalist crisis. Neither nature nor humanity are respected but rather are destroyed and exploited to regenerate TNCs and create new markets for profits. Thus,millions of affected people leave their territories, migrate to developed industries countries. The recent surge in migrants from North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America is also a testament to the geopolitical conflicts and neo-liberal economic interests that cause wars and displacement. _We decry and denounce the current cruel migration policies, as well as all measures put in place to prevent or to complicate the free access to Europe [4][i],US and other developed countries. We denounce the incoherence of the neoliberal system that claims free access for goods but create borders for human beings. _We push for a system change that recognizes peoples' needs, accords dignity and respects nature, and people not profits! To globalize the struggle and the hope, share your actions by sending us (lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org) photographs and videos, marches, forums, stories and other actions, which we will share through our website (viacampesina.org/en/ [5]), TV (tv.viacampesina.org/ [6]) and social media. ------------------------- [7][i] The European Coordination Via Campesina in solidarity with migrants [8]; See also We who come from Africa, the Maghreb and other countries [9] Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/food-sovereign… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/2015-10-12%20Foto%2016%20Oct%20EN.jpg [3] http://tv.viacampesina.org/Together-we-can-cool-the-planet?lang=en [4] file:///C:/Users/nyoni/Downloads/2015-09-25%20Draft%20call%20for%20October%2016th%202015.docx#_edn1 [5] http://viacampesina.org/en/ [6] http://tv.viacampesina.org/?lang=en [7] file:///C:/Users/nyoni/Downloads/2015-09-25%20Draft%20call%20for%20October%2016th%202015.docx#_ednref1 [8] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/migrations-and… [9] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/migrations-and…

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[Info EN] Via Campesina and other social movements in Rome to warn against threat of new patents
by La Vía Campesina 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

VIA CAMPESINA AND OTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN ROME TO WARN AGAINST THREAT OF NEW PATENTS [1] Published on Tuesday, 06 October 2015 15:17 [2]MEDIA RELEASE (Rome, October 5, 2015) La Via Campesina and other social movements came to Rome from 5-9 October for the Sixth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (IT-PGRFA) to warn the Governing Body against the threat of new patents on native seeds. The Seed Treaty is the only international agreement that clearly recognizes the right of farmers to save, use, exchange and sell their seeds. The Member States of the Treaty have the responsibility of realizing farmers' rights, but so far nothing has been done. Until now, the Treaty has not been able to guarantee the promised sharing of benefits. The industry, which has been using our seeds for breeding, has never paid anything. Quite to the contrary, more than 10 years after it entered into force, we have seen a shift towards the patenting of our native seeds' genes, thereby turning the Treaty into a tool of biopiracy, serving industry's interests. This is why LVC decided to share its concern with the Governing Body of the Treaty by presenting the statement signed together with many other peasants' seed networks around the globe. You will find the full text of the statement here [3] _Contact in Rome_ Ivan Mammana 0039 3407801399 (ES-EN-FR-IT) Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversity-a… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/2015-10-06-GuyTIRPAA.jpg [3] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversity-a…

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[Info EN] Victory of the peasants’ movement in the struggle for the recognition of their rights within the UN
by La Vía Campesina 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

Victory of the peasants' movement in the struggle for the recognition of their rights within the UN [1] Published on Tuesday, 06 October 2015 15:33 PRESS RELEASE - LA VIA CAMPESINA (Geneva, October 5, 2015) On the afternoon of October 1st 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted by majority a resolution where it decides that the open-ended intergovernmental working group, with the mandate to negotiate, finalize and submit to the Human Rights Council a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, shall continue the process for the next two years. The resolution was presented by the governments of Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba and South Africa and sponsored among others by Switzerland, Brazil, Eritrea and Argentina, in a joint effort from all regions to support this decisive step. In the final vote, the US government was the only one to vote against. The governments of Europe have abstained from voting and have continued with the same bloc-voting position as in June 2014, in the vote on resolution 26/26. In total, 31 countries voted in favor, 15 abstained, and only one voted against.* La Via Campesina, an international movement which brings together more than 180 organizations from around the world and that represents approximately 200 million peasants, has together with FIAN and CETIM, taken a historic momentum to this process by positioning for the first time within a UN mechanism, a project intended to fill the gaps in human rights legislation of the rural population and rural fishing communities, nomadic peoples, pastoralists, rural workers, landless, rural women and indigenous peoples. The current draft statement submitted by the government of Bolivia in Geneva in February 2015 during the last working group, advocates for a universal charter containing a set of rights in order to improve the conditions of those who live in rural areas and produce 80% of the food in the world. In the days before the vote, leaders from all continents were present in Geneva in order to alert governments about the growing conditions of exclusion, land grabbing, repression and criminalization faced by peasants' organizations and the devastating effects of agrochemicals on the health of rural and peasant population. Meanwhile, national organizations supported the work done in Geneva by carrying out lobbying activities in the capitals. La Via Campesina and alliances redouble efforts to demonstrate that there is no North-South division in the violations of the rights of the peasants' population against the reluctance of many northern states to accept the need for such a statement. La Via Campesina advocates for a model of peasant agriculture in both the North and the Global South based on agroecology and equal relations between peasants. Finally, La Via Campesina wants to express its deep appreciation to the Governments of Bolivia, South Africa, Cuba and Ecuador for their continuous efforts within the Human Rights Council to carry out this initiative emanating from the peasant movement, highlighting an example of good governance, dialogue and involvement of farmers' organizations, civil society and governments. ------------------------- _*__ Results of the vote on the resolution_ In favor (31): Algeria, Botswana, Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, China, India,Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Vietnam, Argentina,Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Paraguay, Venezuela, Russia / Votes abstention (15): France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, Macedonia, Montenegro, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Mexico, Qatar, Japan, Korea / negative Feedback(1): United States Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-rights-m…

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[Info EN] Soon on your screen : Together we can cool the planet
by La Vía Campesina 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

TOGETHER WE CAN COOL THE PLANET [1] (Harare, October 1, 2015) GET READY TO WATCH A SHORT FILM ABOUT THE FOOD SYSTEM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS! On October 16, World Day of Action for Food Sovereignty, Rosalía will tell us how "together we can cool the planet [1]"! The connections between the agro-industrial food system and the climate crisis are explained in a video by the small farmers of the world, along with the solutions that we can build together to respond to this crisis. Click here [1] to watch the trailer and spread the word! MORE INFORMATION AT: tv.viacampesina.org [2] viacampesina.org [3] grain.org [4] Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL [5] @via_campesina facebook.com/GRAIN.org [6]; @GRAIN_org Links: ------ [1] http://tv.viacampesina.org/Together-we-can-cool-the-planet?lang=en [2] http://tv.viacampesina.org/ [3] http://viacampesina.org/ [4] http://www.grain.org/ [5] http://facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL [6] http://facebook.com/GRAIN.org

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[Info EN] You are destroying the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources
by La Vía Campesina 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

YOU ARE DESTROYING THE TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES [1] TO MEMBER GOVERNMENTS OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES (IT PGRFA), MEETING IN ROME 5-9 OCTOBER 2015 We want to tell you that you are in the process of destroying the treaty. It is organising the theft of our seeds and our knowledge. We can no longer continue to give them to researchers and other prospectors that come and collect them in our fields, to then put them in the Treaty's gene banks. _As long as you do not ban all bio-pirated patents, as long as farmers do not have a right to keep, use, exchange and sell seeds from their own harvests then we will not collaborate with research and gene banks that serve the multinational seed companies._ The grains kept in genetic resource banks run by the multilateral system of the Treaty on Plants (IT PGRFA) belong to us: they are our inheritance from many centuries of peasant selection, and they have been collected in our fields. However we are often refused access to peasant variety seeds because we are not researchers. Sometimes we obtain some grains on the condition that we do not use them for agricultural production: they can only be used for research purposes. We have stated that their conservation in cold chambers is not appropriate and that they need several years of new selection before the harvests can be donated in the current growing conditions. However those of us who undertake the collection the genetic resources are forbidden by laws created by seed companies in the majority of member countries of the treaty to exchange or sell them to other peasants. _The treaty promised equitable sharing of the profit created in industry using our seeds for their own selections. After 10 years we have not seen this, rather a shift in the opposite direction._ Peasants have given seeds to industry; industry never paid for them, and the little money that governments donated has not been given to peasant organisations, but has consolidated international industry's research programmes. We gave our seeds free of charge to the seed banks, and we accept that industry uses the useful varieties. But when we use these varieties laws in the majority of signatory countries require us to pay royalties, or forbid us to use the seeds that have come from our own harvests, asserting that they are now property of industry. _We inherited our seeds from our parents, we have looked after them carefully, selected and conserved them for future generations. We have given them to the treaty along with our knowledge, as we have always been proud to share the results of our work. We thought that we were protected against their being appropriated by industry property laws, such as plant breeders' laws and patents. But now you say that you are going to launch the Divseek programme, to dissect the genetic sequences of the resources in the gene bank so as to publish them in electronic databases._ This programme was not created for us, we do not grow genetic sequences, or megabytes, and we do not need this information. But industry created the search engines and software to process all of the 'genetic information' in their database, for it to be patented and associated with some favourable characteristic, useful for agriculture, or the industrial processing of harvests. These patents on the 'functional units of heredity' are already legal in many countries and they prevent us from growing our seeds, the very seeds that we gave free of charge to the treaty seed banks. _We had a period of dialogue with the treaty. But despite the governing body's decision in Bali in 2011 and in Oman in 2013, spaces for dialogue closed up, _preventing us from participating in an efficient manner and formalising working groups with expert consultants, respecting our organisational autonomy. Peasant organisations that are working in their fields to implement article 5 and 6 of the Treaty on in situ conservation and the sustainable use of seeds and those that fight for the implementation of article 9 on the rights of farmers are always considered as 'observers', with the same statute as academics or journalists, but there are the main actors and on the front line of managing the very genetic plant resources that the Treaty defends! Yet Industry is courted and imposes its own solutions. _As long as the Treaty is not reformed to fully apply articles 5, 6 and 9, we will continue to create our own multilateral system for exchange between peasants. We are calling on governments to support out movement, based on the principles of food sovereignty._ TO SIGN OR SUPPORT THE APPEL, PLEASE SEND US BACK THE NAME OF YOUR ORGANIZATION: Mauro Conti, IPC (International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty): ipc-cip(a)foodsovereignty.org Émilie Lapprand, French Farmers' seeds network (Réseau Semences Paysannes) : emilie(a)semencespaysannes.org SIGNATORIES, FARMERS AND GARDENERS ORGANIZATIONS - September 25th, 2015. (SEE UPDATE LIST OF SIGNATORIES HERE [2]) * African Centre for Biodiversity, Afrique du Sud et Tanzanie * AJAC LUKAAL, l'Association des Jeunes Agriculteurs de Casamance "Plantons", Sénégal * ANAFAE, Asociación Nacional de Fomento a la Agricultura Ecológica, Honduras * ANAMURI, Asociación Nacional l de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas, Chili * ANMI, Asamblea Nacional de Mapuches de Izquierda, Chili * Association des Producteurs de Semences Paysannes, Sénégal * BEDE ( Biodiversité : Echanges et Diffusion d'Expériences ), France * Bio Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso. * Biowatch South Africa. * Campaña Semillas de Identidad, Colombie. * CCPA, Cadre de Concertation des Producteurs d'Arachides du Sénégal. * COASP, Comité ouest africain des Semences Paysannes et l'ensemble de ses membres. * Commons for EcoJustice, Malawi * CONAPROCH, Confederación Nacional de Pequeños Productores, Chili * CENESTA,Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment, Iran * Confédération Paysanne, France * COPACO-PRP, Confédération Paysanne du Congo, République Démocratique du Congo * Copagen, Coalition Ouest Africaine pour les Semences paysannes, Sénégal * Crocevia, Italie * ECVC, Coordination européenne Via Campesina * Fahamu Africa et le mouvement des femmes " Nous sommes la solution", Afrique de l'Ouest * Farmworker Association of Florida, USA. * Ferme école Agroécologique Benkadibugu, Mali * FOOL AVOINE, pour une biodiversité sans OGM ni brevet, France * GIPA (Groupement Inter villageois des Producteurs d'Arachides des Communes de Thiomby/Gandiaye), membre CCPA, Sénégal * Grupo Semillas, Colombie * Landworkers' Alliance , Royaume-Uni * MAELA, Mouvement agroécologique de l'Amérique latine et les Caraïbes * MABD, Mouvement de l'Agriculture Biodynamique, France * MPA, Movimento dos pequenos agricultores, Brésil * Ranquil, Confederación Nacional Campesina y de Pueblos originarios, Chili * Red de Semillas Campesinas, Argentina * Rede de Agrobiodiversidade do Semiárido Mineiro, Brésil * Redes de semillas campesinas (RSC), Columbia * Red de Semillas Libres, Colombia * Red de Semillas "Resembrando e Intercambiando", Espagne * RESACIFROAT, Réseau d'Appui à la Citoyenneté des Femmes Rurales d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Tchad * Réseau Semences Paysannes (RSP), France * Rete Semi Rurali, Italie * Stop OGM Pacifique, Nouvelle Calédonie * Union Paysanne, Canada. * Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum, Zimbabwe. * La Via Campesina SUPPORTS * AHCC, Alianza Hondureña de Cambio Climático, Honduras * Alkhalachofa, grupo de consumo responsable, Alcala de Henares, Espagne * Australian Food Sovereignty, Australie * Burkinature, Burkina Faso * CEHPRODEC, Centro Hondureño de Promoción al Desarrollo Comunitario, Honduras * Chile Sustentable, Chili * Community Alliance for Global Justice, Seattle WA USA * CONROA, Coalición nacional de Redes y organizaciones Ambientales, Honduras * Doman chalosse vivante, France. * Enda Pronat, Sénégal * FIAN, Colombie * Foro Ambiental Santiagueño, Argentine * IRPAD/Afrique, Institut de Recherche et de Promotion des Alternatives en Développement, siège Mali. * JINUKUN : Réseau national pour une gestion durable des ressources génétiques , Point focal de la COPAGEN, Bénin * Laura Gutiérrez Escobar, Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia et FIAN, Colombie * MADGE, Australia * Myriam del Carmen Salazar Villarreal Doctora en Agroecología, Colombie * Terra Nuova ONLUS, Italie * Vía Orgánica, Mexique Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/biodiversity-a… [2] http://www.semencespaysannes.org/2015_appel_reseaux_semences_paysannes_pou_…

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[Info EN] Via Campesina promotes international declaration on the rights of peasants in United Nations Human Rights Council
by La Vía Campesina 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

VIA CAMPESINA PROMOTES INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS IN UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [1] (Geneva, September 24, 2015) A delegation of La Via Campesina peasant men and women from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe have come to Geneva for the 30th session of the Human Rights Council, which is soon to vote on continuing its work to complete an "international declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas". For many years, La Via Campesina, with the support of NGOs, has called on this UN body, denouncing the fact that peasants and rural populations are victims of human rights violations on every continent, though exclusion, land grabbing, repression of peasant leaders and the effects of agrochemicals on health. "The world food crisis, International Year of Family Farming, Year of Soil 2015 and work towards achieving the millennium development goals have created an increased awareness of the fundamental role played by farmers and peasants and the unquestionable need to strengthen their rights with the appropriate instruments" says Geneviève Savigny, peasant in France. Since the Office's decision in 2012, which created the mandate for an open-ended intergovernmental working group to draft a declaration on the rights of peasants, the process has received growing support from the 47 states in the Human Rights Council. La Via Campesina now expects more support in the next vote, above all from the most reticent European and (industrialised) states. "This matter is urgent, as every day thousands of farms disappear, peasant men and women are displaced from their land, transnational companies attempt to mercantilise food, privatise seeds, swamp us with genetically-modified products and pesticides, and speculate on the hunger of the people, while at the same time unemployment and migration continue to rise" claims Diego Monton, peasant in Argentina. "It is peasants who feed the world and combat global warming. We are determined in our struggle. We are building hope!" recalls Ndiakhate Fall, peasant in Senegal. "For this reason, this declaration is not only for peasant men and women, it is also a necessity for all the world's peoples" makes clear Zainal Airifin Fuat, peasant in Indonesia. We call on the world's governments to listen to the voice of the people and support this declaration. We invite allies, trade unions, peasants, indigenous peoples and social movements to join this process. _CONTACTS_ Ndiakhate Fall - CNCR/ Sénégal tel +221775508907 Zainal Arifin Fuat - Indonesian Peasant Union / Indonesie +627991890 - +6201311155365 Diego Monton - MNCI-CLOC-LVC / Argentine Amerique Latine +5492615615062 Geneviève Savigny - Coordination Européenne Vía Campesina - France Europe +33625551687 Staff Coordination : Uniterre-Switzerland-Valentina Hemmeler Maïga, v.hemmeler(a)uniterre.ch MORE PHOTOS OF LA VIA CAMPESINA DELEGATION PREPARING ITS PARTICIPATION FOR THE 30TH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [2] CLICK HERE TO READ THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF PEASANTS - MAN AND WOMEN [3] Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-rights-m… [2] http://tv.viacampesina.org/La-Via-Campesina-at-30th-session?lang=en [3] http://viacampesina.net/downloads/PDF/EN-3.pdf

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[Info EN] The European Coordination Via Campesina in solidarity with migrants
by La Vía Campesina 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

The European Coordination Via Campesina in solidarity with migrants [1] Published on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 16:38 ___Press release_ Brussels, 14th September 2015 In view of the humanitarian crisis that we are living in Europe, the peasants of La Via Campesina Europe want to _show their sincere solidarity with all refugees who were and who are forced to leave their villages and their countries._ We show our solidarity especially with Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Kurds, those coming from all different regions of Africa dying by the hundreds on their way to Europe. _We would like to denounce the current cruel European migration policies, as well as all measures put in place to prevent or to complicate the free access to Europe._ Even though the media rarely talk about it, we want to call the reasons that force refugees to flee their countries to mind. We have to tackle the problem at its roots in order to end the aggressions and to change the living conditions these people suffer from in their home countries. Finally, we want to remind that once more civil society as well as peasants have reacted faster and much better than most of our governments. With our commitment and solidarity we aim to build a Europe where human beings are more important than neo-liberal economic interests. See also We who come from Africa, the Maghreb and other countries [2] _Spokespersons on this issue:_ Unai Aranguren, ECVC Coordination Committee, 0034 636 451572, (ES) Paula Gioia, ECVC Coordination Committee , 0049 178 1390024, (DE, PT, EN, ES) Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/migrations-and… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/migrations-and…

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[Info EN] The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!
by La Vía Campesina 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

FOOD JUSTICE AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN USA [1] Published on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 15:26 THE NEW EDITION OF THE NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER IS NOW ONLINE! _ [2]Read the first edition of the newsletter about the situation of one region! This edition explores the relation between Food Justice and Food Sovereignty in the United States._ Food Sovereignty emerged as La ViaCampesina's bold response to the "free trade" regimes destroying livelihoods around the world. It's been taken up widely by communities around the World reeling from the spread of agrofuels, GMOs, land grabs and the "privatization of everything." Food Sovereignty reflects the deep resistance of people's historical struggles against exploitation, oppression and colonization. When communities fighting for their rights discover the principles of food sovereignty, their reaction is often "Yes! That's what we're doing!" Food justice is one such struggle. The radical roots of food justice in the United States are deep in the movement for Black Liberation. 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-30/1863-food-jus… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/nyeleni%202.jpg [3] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/stories/pdf/2015-09-Nyeleni_Newsletter_Nu… [4] http://www.nyeleni.org/

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