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This is the first in a series of
special issues
we will be
bringing you
with updates
from the
recently
concluded 8th
International
Conference of
La Via
Campesina in
Bogota,
Colombia.
This issue
highlights the
declarations
from the
organic spaces
of the global
peasant
movement
issued during
our
conference,
outlining the
future
direction of
our common
struggles.
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May the approaching year
find us united,
collectively forging a
joyful rebellion and
prosperous resistance.
With the hope that each
joint effort translates
into significant
progress toward our
shared goals, we will
persist in our struggle
alongside Peasant
Agroecology, Peasant and
Popular Feminism, and
Peasant Rights.
Strengthening food
sovereignty, we will
continue contributing to
cooling the planet to
ensure a future where
dignity and peace with
social justice are not
mere aspirations but
lived realities.
Here's to an
unwavering and
radically
transformative 2024!
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Bogotá
Declaration | La
Via Campesina |
#8ConfLVC
More than 400
delegates of La Via
Campesina,
representing 185
organizations and
movements in 83
countries, together
with allies, are
gathered in Bogotá,
Colombia to celebrate
our 8th International
Conference from the
1st to the 8th of
December of 2023.
We, the peasants,
rural workers,
landless, indigenous
peoples, pastoralists,
artisanal fisherfolk,
forest dwellers, rural
women, youth and
diversities and other
peoples who work in
the countryside around
the world and united
within La Via
Campesina, declare
that
“Faced with global
crises, we build
food sovereignty
to ensure a future
for humanity!”
towards a just and
decent food system for
all, recognizing
peoples’ needs,
respecting nature,
putting people before
profit and resisting
corporate capture.. READ MORE
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Youth
Articulation's
Declaration | La
Via Campesina
We commit to
construct a future
grounded in food
sovereignty and
agroecology as a
sustainable agrifood
system, social
movement, a popular
knowledge and a way of
life. We acknowledge
our role and
responsibility to
preserve ancestral
wisdom and movement
knowledge passed down
by our elders. We
reaffirm our
commitment to work
shoulder to shoulder
with the generations
that came before us.
Their struggles and
effort laid the
foundation to ensure
intergenerational
continuity of our
movement. READ MORE
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Declaration
of the Women's
Articulation | La
Via Campesina
The women’s
assemblies of La Vía
Campesina are not only
a means of training
and exchange but also
of building an agenda,
legitimizing our
actions, and
validating the
fundamental role we
have in the
construction of Food
Sovereignty, of our
movement and societies
of peace with social
justice. Guaranteeing
peasant rights means
guaranteeing the
rights of rural women!
The struggle and
organization in these
30 years of La Via
Campesina as a
political and
pedagogical tool have
also taught us that we
cannot build the
present without
knowing the past.
Because of that, we
recognize all the
seeds that rebellious
women left us,
invisible but
organized, for justice
and dignity. We
welcome the fire lit
in us by the women who
preceded us, our
ancestors and sisters
who opened the path of
struggle for us. READ MORE
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1st
International
Meeting of
Diversities and
Supporters
Sowing the seed of
revolutionary love and
confronting everyday
hatred is a permanent
task. Agroecology is
diversity and as such
we are part of the
principles we defend.
We must strengthen the
grassroots work;
adding colors to the
political formation,
and to the autonomous
values to popular
organization — against
patriarchal violence.
We must advance the
actions of the
collective in the
fight for the
affirmation of human
rights, of our
existence, of our
survival, not only as
individuals but as a
collective, and of the
existence of our
families, our
communities and
colleagues who are in
the same condition of
not having access to
land and other natural
goods, work, housing
or adequate food.
Diversity is at the
heart of Food
Sovereignty, in all
territories! With
Diversities there is
revolution! READ MORE
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