La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | April 2018
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANTS' STRUGGLES 2018: LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS FOR THE COORDINATION OF DECENTRALISED, UNITED ACTION! _For land and for life! Enough Free Trade Agreements, enough impunity!_ (Harare, 10th April 2018) : This 17th April, on the International Day of Peasants' Struggles, La Via Campesina recalls the massacre of the 19 landless peasants, murdered by agribusiness. United in courage and rebellion, we call on our member organisations, allies, friends and organised peoples to coordinate actions of resistance in all forms for Land and sea, on a worldwide scale, against Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and the criminalisation of social struggles. Read more... [3]
FEATURED ARTICLES FROM FEB-MARCH 2018
THIS APRIL 17TH WE DEMAND THAT THE PEASANTS RIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED. ENOUGH OF FTAS, ENOUGH IMPUNITY FOR CORPORATIONS!
(Harare, April 17th 2018) After two decades of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), being advanced in an attempt to recolonize and 22 years after the de Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Brazil, La Via Campesina denounces the impunity with which these actions are carried out. Read more... [4]
WHEN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MEETS CORPORATE INTERESTS
_Solutions to the problems facing agriculture today need to go beyond organic. They need to be oriented toward food sovereignty._ A recent investigative report by Radio-Canada's La Semaine Verte revealed just how blatantly global corporate interests are appropriating organic agriculture. Read more ... [5]
RIGHT TO AGRARIAN REFORM FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY CAMPAIGN: APRIL 17 STATEMENT
_Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) Press Statement_ Today, 17 April, our movement, the Right To Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign, or in short, The Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) , a member of the international peasant's movement, La Via Campesina (LVC) will commemorate the International Day of Peasants' Struggles. Read more ... [6]
AGROECOLOGY IS OUR BEST HOPE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The Sustainable Development Goals present an impressive commitment to eradicating poverty, ending hunger, achieving food security, promoting nutrition and sustainable agriculture and ensuring that no one is left behind. Agroecology is based on traditional and indigenous farming knowledge, and when carried out by peasants has shown to be much more productive per hectare than industrial, agribusiness monoculture. Read more ... [7]
KEEP AGRICULTURE OUT OF FREE TRADE! STATEMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON FREE TRADE AND AGRICULTURE
Seoul, April 19, 2018: Since World Trade Organization was established and the Agreement on Agriculture from the Uruguay Round came into effect, free trade of agricultural products has expanded globally. Since WTO's negotiation around Doha Development Agenda stopped, numerous free trade agreements have been signed, spreading further free trade of agricultural products all over the world. Read more ... [8]
THE FAIR OF THE MST GATHERS THOUSANDS IN MEETING ABOUT HEALTHY FOOD
Activity honor Paul Singer during the 3rd National Fair of Agrarian Reform in São Paulo "The MST use the Fairs as the main methodology in the debate with the population regarding the Popular Agrarian Reform and healthy food production", said João Pedro Stedile, the national coordinator of the MST. Read more ... [9]
PETITION: EU, PROTECT OUR PEASANTS AND FOOD SYSTEMS!
_EU governments and leaders_ The 2 billion people working in rural areas are claiming their rights to dignity and our right to healthy diets. A UN declaration on their rights is the most powerful legal instrument against abuses like landgrabs, biopiracy and labour exploitation. Read more... [10]
LA VIA CAMPESINA CONDEMNS ISRAEL'S MASSACRE ON 'LAND DAY' 2018 AND CALLS FOR AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE BLOODSHED
La Via Campesina firmly condemns the recent assassinations committed by the criminal State of Israel and solemnly supports the Palestinian people in their struggle for land, freedom and dignity. Read more... [11]
"LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ADOPTION OF A STRONG UN DECLARATION, CAPABLE OF PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS"
My name is Zainal Fuat, from the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI) and from the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of La Vía Campesina. I hereby speak on behalf of La Vía Campesina, which is the largest international peasant movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size peasants, landless people, rural women and youth, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. Read more... [12]
APRIL 17 – ECVC TO ORGANISE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS!
_April 17: Free Farmers from Free Trade Agreements!_ MERCOSUR, CETA, JEFTA ARE A DEATHBLOW On 17th April 1996, a private militia fires and murders 19 landless peasants in Eldorado do Carajas, Para State, Brazil. Their crime? Occupying fallow land belonging to a rich landowner. Read more... [13]
THE TIME HAS COME TO SCALE UP PEASANT AGROECOLOGY: LA VIA CAMPESINA AT THE II INTERNATIONAL AGROECOLOGY SYMPOSIUM OF FAO
Peasants and other small-scale producers of food are central to bringing agroecology to scale, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva stressed in his closing remarks to the II International Agroecology Symposium at FAO held from 3 to 5 of April of 2018 in Rome. Read more... [14]
JOINT STATEMENT BY LVC AND CSOS: 5TH OEIWG SESSION | UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS
Geneva, Palais des Nations, Room XX / 9-13 April 2018 We peasants, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folk and rural workers, including rural women from around the globe, from La Via Campesina, IUF, WFFP, FIMARC, IITC along with CETIM, FIAN International and other organizations, represent all together billions of rural people. We have been constructively engaging in this process of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, from the field, our workplaces around the world and here in Geneva for many years. Read more... [15]
STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY (IPC) FROM PAARL (CAPE TOWN), MARCH 2018
_We build a global food system based on our agroecology and food sovereignty!_ We, the representatives of peasants and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, Indigenous Peoples, and food consumers from all over the world and who are all members of the IPC, met in Paarl, South Africa to take our struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology forward. Read more... [16]
LAW ON LAND PROCUREMENT & HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION IS RESULTING IN PEASANT HOUSES AND LANDS BEING FORCEFULLY GRABBED: SPI, INDONESIA
Jakarta: In Central Java, the Batang-Semarang highway construction has led to blatant and unjust grabbing of lands and houses onwed by 140 peasant families from the nine villages of Ngawensari, Galih, Sumbersari, Rejosar, Tunggulsari, Kertomulyo, Penjalin, Magelung and Nolokerto. Read more ... [17]
MST DIRECTOR: MOVEMENT HOLDS BRAZIL'S "MOST DIVERSE FAIR"
"I dare say this is the biggest fair in Brazil when it comes to diversity," João Paulo Rodrigues, a director of the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST) said about the third edition of the movement's National Agrarian Reform Fair. Read more... [18]
MST FAIR HOLDS SEMINARS AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HEALTHY EATING
Four-day event takes place from Thursday (3) to Sunday (6) in São Paulo, Brazil Not only tons of healthy products are being sold at the 3rd National Agrarian Reform Fair organized by the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST), but the event also has a calendar full of seminars dedicated to political education and culture. Read more ... [19]
DECLARATION AT THE II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AGROECOLOGY APRIL, 2018
We are delegates of different organizations and social movements of small-scale food producers. We are peasants, fisherfolk and fish workers, indigenous and traditional peoples, pastoralists and nomads, agricultural and food workers, the landless, urban and peri-urban communities living in poverty and food insecurity, consumers, youth, women and NGOs. Read more ... [20]
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REPORT OF THE VII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LA VIA CAMPESINA The report from the VII International Conference of La Via Campesina that took place in Basque Country in July 2017, brings to you key moments and important declarations issued by the global peasant movement. Download the PDF [21]
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AGROECOLOGY IS FACING THE THREAT OF CO-OPTION BY CORPORATIONS
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