Edition: July 2024
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La Via Campesina Denounces Land Annexation by the Occupying and Apartheid State of Israel -------------------------
La Via Campesina vehemently denounces and condemns the illegal seizure of over 23.7 square kilometers (9.15 square miles) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of this year by the Israeli government amidst the ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip. More than half of this land, amounting to 12.7 square kilometers in the Jordan Valley, was announced on July 2nd, marking the largest land annexation in the last 30 years since the 1993 Oslo Accords. The Jordan Valley, considered the breadbasket of the future Palestinian state, is endowed with fertile lands and rich water resources.
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LVC Ground Report : Kenya's Peasant Protests against the IMF ------------------------- Kenya's debt crisis is severe and well-known. As of April 2024, the country was facing loan maturities totaling KES 50 billion (USD368.32 million) per week. In January 2024, Kenya spent KES 123.53 billion (USD 910 million) on debt servicing, and another KES 66.7 billion (USD 491.34 million) in February 2024. The IMF is notorious for imposing unpopular tax measures on debt-ridden countries to prevent defaults. These measures often include debt restructuring that increases overall debt and promoting Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that support privatization and liberalization of key state-owned enterprises. The Gen Z-led protests have directly accused the IMF, World Bank, and WTO of imposing harsh taxes and prioritizing creditor interests over the needs of the Kenyan people. Kenyan peasants have had enough of the overreach by these institutions.
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Nepal Needs Comprehensive Land Reform, Not Land Banks [5] -------------------------
Peasant and indigenous communities in Nepal view land not as a commercial commodity but as a means of production tied to identity, culture, heritage, and sovereignty. The World Bank's concept of a Land Bank treats land as a commodity, contradicting the interests of peasants, indigenous peoples, and small-scale food producers.
La Via Campesina supports and stands in solidarity with the Kanak Peoples, New Caledonia [6] ------------------------- Given the stakes of mineral and tourist resources, agricultural development is not a priority for the authorities, and most agricultural goods are imported from Australia. However, subsistence farming, practiced and exchanged among indigenous peoples, accounts for a quarter of the indigenous families' resources.
Zimbabwe: Peasant Agroecology transforms Shashe community [7]
Haiti : Armed Groups Target All the Spaces Where Women Are Thriving [8]
India: Peasant Movements Protest Forceful Acquisition of Farmland [9] ------------------------- For the past 850+ days, small-scale farmers and allied agricultural workers' unions in Channarayapatna, Devanahalli, near the Bengaluru International Airport, have been leading a protest against the acquisition of their land for an industrial project.
'Land grabbing is rolling along as we speak and in fact intensifying' [10] ------------------------- When we say that 70% of farmland is controlled by 1% of the world's largest farms, that's a dangerous trend because they don't love the land. Land is like family: if you don't love it, you will exploit it and destroy it. That's what we're seeing around us.
Indonesia: SPI Launches Oil Palm Cooperative in North Sumatra, Advancing Agrarian Reform Campaign [11] ------------------------- This June, members of the Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI) in Sei Kopas Village, Asahan Regency, North Sumatra, inaugurated a new Oil Palm Plantation Cooperative.
Korean peasants protest as climate crises, crop loss, rising costs, and cheap imports pose existential threat [12] ------------------------- Angered by Yoon Suk-yeol's government policies favoring agricultural destruction and farm-related suicides, peasants nationwide gathered outside the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea on July 4th.
Brazil: Environmental crisis - How long do you have to wait to start making changes ? [13] ------------------------- We don't need to cut down any more trees to plant crops or raise cattle. Zero deforestation needs to be extended from the Amazon to other biomes like the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, and the Pantanal.
Rethinking the regulation of agricultural markets in Europe | Call for Contributions [14] ------------------------- What lessons can be learned from the successes and failures of past policies to regulate agricultural markets, in Europe and elsewhere in the world, in order to rebuild the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the basis of food sovereignty and enable the agroecological transition?
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