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La Via Campesina - Newsletter February 2015
by La Vía Campesina 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

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Mali: "Agroecology is in our hands! We are building it further together!" - Opening of the International Agroecology Forum
by La Vía Campesina 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

MALI: ‘’AGROECOLOGY IS IN OUR HANDS! WE ARE BUILDING IT FURTHER TOGETHER!” - OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL AGROECOLOGY FORUM [1] Published on Wednesday, 25 February 2015 06:24 [2]Sélingué, 24 February 2015 - Today, the sun has risen brighter then ever in Mali to warm the more than 250 delegates of the first International Forum on Agroecology hosted by Confederation of Peasants Organizations [3]of Mali (CNOP) and La Via Campesina [4], at the Nyéléni Center in Sélingué, south Mali. They are women and men, from diverse constituencies, among them farmers, fisherfolks, indigenous people, pastoralists and urban _consumers_ from all corners of the world, arrived to the center in buses from Bamako and other regions of Mali. "I decided to come here because we are building a necessary movement, that will claim back what was always ours: our peasant knowledge of doing agriculture ", said a woman farmer from Mali, as she was running to attend the women caucus, this afternoon. Over the next four days, the women and men of the conference will debate, share experiences and celebrate agroecology with the view to reinforcing a common vision and principles, as well as deciding on a common strategy to claim back the concept of agroecology, "beyond just the scientific aspect, to encompass its social, economic and political elements", as Gilberto Schneider, from the Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores [3] (MPA) in Brazil, pointed out. The Forum opened with a warm welcome to the participants by Ibrahima Coulibaly, the president of the CNOP, who explained the reason why such a forum was taking place now. According to Coulibaly, in spite of agroecology now being mentioned everywhere, it is necessary to question who really are at the center of agroecology. "We are talking about small scale food producers, peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, we are who feed the world population. It is we who are the real heroes of the agroecology. It is we that should have a voice", he said. Maria Noel, from Movimiento Agroecológico de America Latina y el Caribe [5] (MAELA) in Uruguay, said that agroecology has been practiced for centuries and it represents more than just a system of production. She explained that it was a way of being, a way of life, which respects the environment and provides a livelihood and income to the majority of food producers and fisherfolk on the planet. "We have to make sure that this concept is not captured by corporates", she said. In fact, the industrial agriculture system based on heavy use of harsh chemicals, which destroys both soils and forests, depletes resources, and affects the health and wellbeing of both small holders and consumers, is being systematically favoured by governments, which serve the interests of multinationals and enact free trade policies dictated by international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF. As Ibrahima Coulibaly stated: ''Humanity went too far, when we thought that we should put the economy before all. This has weakened the world, made it more vulnerable and resulted in climatic change: extreme weather, droughts, and severe water shortages", he said. Participants of the first Agroecology forum have a common understanding that the only way to save the planet for future generations is to practice a virtuous agriculture. Thus, people must stand together as one, and this is possible because "we are the majority. If we say no to industrial agriculture, it will be no!", stressed Coulibaly. Andrea Ferrante from the Italian Association of Biological Farmers [6] (AIAB) and La Via Campesina reiterated: "we are the answer. The answer to feed the world lies with agroecology. We want a model that is based on our knowledge, our way of living, not on petrol and fake answers from the industrial world. We look at the future of our children". The link between rural and urban actors has also being highlighted through a need to connect responsible consumption and production, in strong local and regional food systems based on agroecology. It is not possible to have food sovereignty, the respect of peoples right to culturally appropriate and healthy food, without agroecology,'' said Ferrante. _By Communication team of the International Forum On Agroecology_ See also: Mali: La Via Campesina and allies host an International Agroecology Forum to address Food Sovereignty [7] TO INTERVIEW REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DIVERSE CONSTITUENCIES AT THE FORUM PLEASE CONTAC Boaventura Monjane: +223 92 71 90 14 (Local mobile phone) or boa.monjane(a)gmail.com | boa.monjane(a)viacampesina.org Links: ------ [1] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/sustainabl… [2] http://www.viacampesina.org/en/images/mali-agroecology.jpg [3] http://www.mpabrasil.org.br/ [4] http://viacampesina.org [5] http://maela-agroecologia.org/ [6] http://www.aiab.it/ [7] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/sustainable-pe…

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Fwd: Re: Mali: La Via Campesina and allies host an International Agroecology Forum to address Food Sovereignty
by La Vía Campesina 22 Feb '15

22 Feb '15

FYI -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: Re: [Info EN] Mali: La Via Campesina and allies host an International Agroecology Forum to address Food Sovereignty DATE: 2015-02-19 19:52 FROM: Cieas Organization <cieas2009(a)yahoo.com> TO: "viacampesina(a)viacampesina.org" <viacampesina(a)viacampesina.org> Dear Viacampesina I hope This Will Find you Well Thank You for the infomation of Bamako It was a very interesting Especial this focus to famers We have interest to participate To mali plaese can we participate All thore we Request Resoucies to suport us Thank you very much we look Foward To Hear from you With ReGards Solomon B Hlophe Esaff Swaziland/ Cieas Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android [1] ------------------------- FROM: La Vía Campesina <via-info-en(a)viacampesina.org>; TO: via info en <via-info-en(a)viacampesina.org>; SUBJECT: [Info EN] Mali: La Via Campesina and allies host an International Agroecology Forum to address Food Sovereignty SENT: Thu, Feb 19, 2015 4:09:35 PM MALI: LA VIA CAMPESINA AND ALLIES HOST AN INTERNATIONAL AGROECOLOGY FORUM TO ADDRESS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [2] Published on Thursday, 19 February 2015 22:18 MEDIA ADVISORY |LA VIA CAMPESINA [3](Bamako, 19 February 2015) - More than 200 delegates, among them peasants, family farmers, fisher folk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers, consumers, urban poor organizations, NGOs, academics and other social movements will be at the Nyéléni Centre in Mali from 24 to 27 February, to take part in the first International Forum on Agroecology. This forum takes places at a time where the world is facing economic crisis, the climate is changing, and the Mother Earth is being aggressively exploited by the corporate model of death and land grabbing. According to La Via Campesina [4], agroecology is essential to humanity, since it builds autonomy and a better life for small scale food producers, produces more healthy food, provides a strong base for food sovereignty, and allows rural peoples to live in harmony with and take care of our Mother Earth. Peasant and small scale food producers' agroecology is considered to be the model of life, of farms with farmers, of food producers with productive resources, of rural communities with families, of countryside with trees and forests. According to Ibrahim Coulibaly, a leader of the National Coordination of Peasants Organizations [5] (CNOP) in Mali, "this forum will bring practical responses, that will lead to concrete solutions on how agroecology can save the planet from hunger and climate change". Together with La Via Campesina, organizations such as More and Better (MaB), Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina y el Caribe (MAELA), Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA), World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers (WFF), World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP) are co-organizers of the forum. The Mali forum aims at exchanging local knowledge and know-how of farmers, sharing the innovations of peasants and small scale food producers, training materials and territorial processes to address the challenges of building an ecologically and socially just  food system, as well as strengthening the synergies between the different small scale food producer organizations, social movements and other organizations promoting Agroecology. CONTACTS FOR MEDIA Boaventura Monjane - boa.monjane(a)viacampesina.org Lamine Coulibaly laminezie(a)gmail.com - mob +22376170979 Links: ------ [1] http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/sustainable-pe… [3] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/stories/nyeleni/nyeleni.jpg [4] http://viacampesina.org/en/ [5] http://www.cnop-mali.org

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Mali: La Via Campesina and allies host an International Agroecology Forum to address Food Sovereignty
by La Vía Campesina 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

MALI: LA VIA CAMPESINA AND ALLIES HOST AN INTERNATIONAL AGROECOLOGY FORUM TO ADDRESS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [1] Published on Thursday, 19 February 2015 22:18 MEDIA ADVISORY |LA VIA CAMPESINA [2](Bamako, 19 February 2015) - More than 200 delegates, among them peasants, family farmers, fisher folk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers, consumers, urban poor organizations, NGOs, academics and other social movements will be at the Nyéléni Centre in Mali from 24 to 27 February, to take part in the first International Forum on Agroecology. This forum takes places at a time where the world is facing economic crisis, the climate is changing, and the Mother Earth is being aggressively exploited by the corporate model of death and land grabbing. According to La Via Campesina [3], agroecology is essential to humanity, since it builds autonomy and a better life for small scale food producers, produces more healthy food, provides a strong base for food sovereignty, and allows rural peoples to live in harmony with and take care of our Mother Earth. Peasant and small scale food producers' agroecology is considered to be the model of life, of farms with farmers, of food producers with productive resources, of rural communities with families, of countryside with trees and forests. According to Ibrahim Coulibaly, a leader of the National Coordination of Peasants Organizations [4] (CNOP) in Mali, "this forum will bring practical responses, that will lead to concrete solutions on how agroecology can save the planet from hunger and climate change". Together with La Via Campesina, organizations such as More and Better (MaB), Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina y el Caribe (MAELA), Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA), World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers (WFF), World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP) are co-organizers of the forum. The Mali forum aims at exchanging local knowledge and know-how of farmers, sharing the innovations of peasants and small scale food producers, training materials and territorial processes to address the challenges of building an ecologically and socially just  food system, as well as strengthening the synergies between the different small scale food producer organizations, social movements and other organizations promoting Agroecology. CONTACTS FOR MEDIA Boaventura Monjane - boa.monjane(a)viacampesina.org Lamine Coulibaly laminezie(a)gmail.com - mob +22376170979 Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/sustainable-pe… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/stories/nyeleni/nyeleni.jpg [3] http://viacampesina.org/en/ [4] http://www.cnop-mali.org

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La Via Campesina - Newsletter January 2015
by La Vía Campesina 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

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La Via campesina deamds the release of Huber Ballesteros
by La Vía Campesina 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

LA VIA CAMPESINA DEAMDS THE RELEASE OF HUBER BALLESTEROS [1] Huber Ballesteros is one of the best known trade unionists and human rights activists in Colombia. He is also one of those who have been the most threatened. He was arrested on August 25th, 2013, and accused of "rebellion" and of "financing terrorism. He has not yet been brought to trial. Huber is the vice-president of FENSUAGRO, one of the largest unions in Colombia and one of the most persecuted. In recent years, more than 1000 members of FENSUAGRO have been assassinated. We believe that Huber has been targetted because of his activism, and we are demanding his unconditional release from detention, as well as the release of all of the other political prisoners in Colombia. Please take a moment to send a message of protest to the Colombian government. http://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=2606 [2] Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-rights-m… [2] http://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=2606

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Femicide and Impunity: A humanitarian crisis in Central America, and a growing problem worldwide
by La Vía Campesina 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

FEMICIDE AND IMPUNITY: A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, AND A GROWING PROBLEM WORLDWIDE [1] [2]El Salvador has had the highest rate of femicide in the world, with 2, 250 femicides between 2010 and 2013. Guatemala has the third and Honduras the seventh highest rate of femicides. In Guatemala, only 2% of murdered women's cases were investigated in 2013 and likewise in Honduras less than 2% were investigated. For cases that somehow make it to court in Guatemala, 90% of defendants are not convicted. It is much the same in El Salvador. In 2014 alone, between January and October, over 300 bodies of young women between the ages of 12 and 18 years old have been found in unmarked common graves. Femicide is the violent and deliberate murder of a woman, and is a crime, but many national governments do not specifically define such murders as a crime in their criminal codes. Thus, femicide is difficult to prosecute through the justice system of many states. Stories of thousands of women and girls who have been murdered and then discarded like rubbish in alleyways, city streets and dumpsters continue to make headlines. The victims of femicide often show signs of torture, rape, or breast and genital mutilation and dismembered body parts. The acute epidemic of femicide in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala is related to historical patterns of violence and abuse in Central America, where death squads and civil wars have left a legacy of violence, intimidation and ongoing impunity. But it is also linked to the prevailing history of patriarchal norms that have existed for centuries in almost all of our societies across the globe that presume that women are the property of men to be treated and disposed of according to the whims of men. In Latin America these patriarchal norms are often described as machismo. It is difficult to effectively implement proposals or laws aiming to eliminate violence, exploitation, and abuse of girls, adolescents, and women. In El Salvador a law on femicide came into effect in 2012. The law was the result of years of women's struggles and mobilizations that led to a landmark legislation to address gender-based violence enacted by former president Mauricio Funes. El Salvador's law on femicide, which carries a prison sentence of 20 to 50 years, requires judges to establish proof that the death of a woman is motivated by hatred or contempt based on gender. But there are many judges who don't take femicide seriously and don't want to deal with this crime and apply the law correctly. Public awareness campaigns that show the incremental scale of verbal, emotional and physical violence women face before femicide occurs are necessary. In addition, actions to demand respect for the human rights of women and an end to impunity are necessary. La Via Campesina's Global Campaign to End All Forms of Violence Against Women is aimed at increasing public awareness of the roots causes of, and all the types of expressions of, violence against women, and to demand an end to impunity. We urge all of our member organizations to take action and write petitions, send letters, organize protests to pressure the departments of justice of the governments of our countries to end impunity to put the murderers in jail and to do justice for these thousands of women and thus for all women. NO MORE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN! ¡NOT ONE MORE DEATH! WE STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPUNITY AND FOR THE LIVES OF WOMEN! Links: ------ [1] http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/women-mainmenu… [2] http://viacampesina.org/en/images/stories/women/photo8scaled.jpg

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Newsletter #2 : Social Movements' Communication Convergence at the Peoples' Summit in Lima
by La Vía Campesina 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

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The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! - Peasant agroecology is the key for humankind and the planet!
by La Vía Campesina 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

[ESPAÑOL ABAJO - FRANÇAIS CI-DESSOUS] _EN AGROECOLOGY AND CLIMATE_ [1] The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! PEASANT AGROECOLOGY IS THE KEY FOR HUMANKIND AND THE PLANET! Agroecology has existed for many years, and much has been written about it already. For long it was considered as archaic and not really adapted to "modern progress". It is now making a big comeback. But who will reap the benefits? IN THIS EDITION OF NYÉLÉNI LEARN MORE ABOUT AGROECOLOGY AND ITS ROLE IN TACKLING CLIMATE 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! _ES __A_ [3]_GROECOLOGÍA y _ [3]_CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO_ [3] LA NUEVA EDICIÓN DEL BOLETÍN NYÉLÉNI ES AHORA EN LÍNEA! _ _ La agroecología campesina, clave para la humanidad y para el planeta La agroecología existe desde hace décadas y se ha escrito mucho sobre ella. Durante muchos años se ha considerado arcaica y poco adaptada al "progreso moderno". Ahora resurge con fuerza. Pero, ¿quién va a beneficiarse de este resurgir? ¡En esta EDICIÓN de Nyéléni, APRENDA MÁS SOBRE LA AGROECOLOGÍA Y SU PAPEL FRENTE AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO! _Haga clic aquí para descargar la edición en español_ [3]_ _o lea el boletín directamente, en el sitio web www.nyeleni.org [4] Para más información, póngase en contacto con info(a)nyeleni.org ¡POR FAVOR, DIFUNDIR A SUS CONTACTOS! _FR _ [5]_L'AGROÉCOLOGIE ET LE CLIMAT_ [5] LA NOUVELLE ÉDITION DU BULLETIN NYÉLÉNI EST MAINTENANT EN LIGNE! _ _ L’AGROÉCOLOGIE PAYSANNE, CLEF DE L’ HUMANITE ET DE LA PLANETE! L'agroécologie existe depuis des décennies et fait objet d'une nombreuse littérature et articles. Elle a été longtemps jugée comme archaïque et peu adaptée au « progrès moderne ». Elle revient aujourd'hui sur le devant de la scène. A qui va profiter ce retour ? DANS CETTE ÉDITION DE NYÉLÉNI, VOUS APPRENDREZ PLUS SUR L'AGROÉCOLOGIE ET SON RÔLE FACE AU CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE! . _Cliquez ici pour [5]__télécharge l'édition française [5] _ou lisez le bulletin directement sur le site www.nyeleni.org [6] Pour toute information complémentaire merci de contacter info(a)nyeleni.org FAITES CIRCULER CE BULLETIN! Links: ------ [1] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=62 [2] http://www.nyeleni.org [3] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=63 [4] http://www.nyeleni.org/spip.php?page=working.es [5] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=64 [6] http://www.nyeleni.org/spip.php?page=working

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Newsletter #1 : Social Movements' Communication Convergence at the Peoples' Summit in Lima
by La Vía Campesina 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

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