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Opinion: Traditional crops keep our culture alive
Demand for foods based on traditional crops, with a clear link to local culture, is increasing in Zimbabwe. In this coliumn written for farming Matters, Elizabeth Mpofu's argues that policy needs to protect traditional crops and varieties, rather than introduce costly new ones, which require agrochemicals that damage nature and our health. Read More |
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People in Panama, Sri Lanka, protest again demanding their lands back
Several hunderd people protested in Panama, Sri Lanka, on the 21st of June, demanding justice and repatriation on the land from which they were forced to evict in 2010 by the then ruling government. Read More
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KWPA and SPI undertake Farmer to Farmer exchange program in Indonesia
A brief report of the farmer to farmer exchange on agroecology that was held in Jakarta and Bogor, Indonesia in February. by Korean Women Peasant Association (KWPA) and SPI (Indonesian Peasants' Union). Read More
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German Development Ministry (BMZ) must put Small Farmers in focus
In a press note released on 23rd June, AbL (Small Farmers Union in Germany and member of La Via Campesina), along with FIAN Germany has called upon the German Develeopment Ministry(BMZ), to put its focus on Small Farmers and agro-ecological practices. Read More
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Appeal to the world's free people: UAWC condemns the killing of Berta Cáceres
In coordination with other human rights defenders and all free world people, The UAWC urgently calls to raise the voices and denounce the ongoing crimes against Human right defenders all over the World, arrange international and national social movements and activities in solidarity with Cáceres's family, and the small farmers in Honduras and all over the World. Read More |
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Ramona and Angel at CFS Negotiations
At the CFS negotiations on Connecting Small Holders to Markets, being held in Rome on the 8th and 9th of June 2016, Ramona Duminicioiu, Angel Strappazon and Javier Sanchez were among the speakers who intervened through the two days. Ramona Duminicioiu from Eco Ruralis/ECVC, Roumania intervened on the CFS Open-Ended Working Group on markets linked to local, national and/or regional food systems. Angel Strappazon, from CLOC-VC, Argentina, intervened in defense of institutional procurement programs. Read More |
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Article: Support price offered by Indian government to farmers inadequate
In this article published in The Wire, S. Kannaiyan, General Secretary of the South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements (SICCFM) calls for an increase in support price for paddy and strengthening of public funded research institutions. Read More |
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NFU at Canadian Milk Matters Rallies on Parliament Hill and in PEI
Diafiltered milk is a highly concentrated milk protein ingredient that is being produced by American dairy processors for export to Canada as a way to avoid tariffs. Trade regulations define it as "not milk", however, imported diafiltered milk is increasingly being used in cheese production instead of actual milk produced by Canadian farmers on Canadian farms. Read More |
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MST-Goiás statement on the policy of harassment against fighters for agrarian reform
On Monday May 30, the intellectual and activist for agrarian reform Jose Valdir Misnerovicz who was in Veranópolis, in Rio Grande do Sul, was surprised by a coordinated operation by the Civil Police of Rio Grande do Sul and Goiás for his arrest. Read More |
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Landworkers' Alliance demand recognition for small-farms in post Brexit policies
It is with some concern that The Landworkers' Alliance (LWA) looks forward at the possibilities for British food and agricultural policies post-Brexit. The task will require huge effort and ingenuity on behalf of political decision makers if it is to support producers, protect the environment and prioritize access to healthy, nutritious food for all. Read More
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Cheap imports cause massive fall in coconut prices in India. Farmers protest.
Coconut farmers in the State of Karnataka, took to the streets to protest against massive fall in coconut prices, which they allege is due to cheap imports from Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. Read More |
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Farmers' Union in India demand exclusion of farming from WTO
On the occassion of conclusion of the three-day national level thought camp of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) in Haridwar on Sunday, the farmers body passed a nine-demand resolution addressed to Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi and handed it over to the District Magistrate there to send it to the PM. Read More |
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Full Text: Minjuwha Baek's speech at the UN Human Rights Council
Mr. Namgi Baek, a farmer, has been lying unconscious in a hospital bed in Seoul, after being brutally hit by a water cannon during a peasant protest on November 14, 2015. Ms. Minjuwha Beak, daughter of Brother Baek, delivered a short speech before the UN Human Rights council in June, seeking justice for her father, for union leader Mr. Sang-kyun Han and hundreds of peasants under various forms of attack. Read More |
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TTIP and CETA: We won't let them trade us away
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as well as its "sister" CETA (Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement) are an assault on sustainable farming on both sides of the Atlantic. TTIP and CETA will affect food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection, lead to further intensification and corporate concentration of agriculture and threaten peasants' survival as well as citizens' health. Read More |
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Peasant members of SPI demand immediate resolution to land dispute at UPT, Bali Village
Hundreds of peasant members of the Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI) Katingan, Central Kalimantan, took part in an action demanding immediate resolution of the land dispute at Transmigration Settlement Unit of Bali Village, District Malan Island. Read More |
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Small holder farmers are crucial to ensure food security and nutrition: Javier Sanchez at CFS
Smallholders engage in many interrelated markets, but also face challenges in securing market access and eliciting benefits to support healthy livelihoods. They have an essential role to play in ensuring food security and nutrition today and tomorrow. Read More |
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UAWC Statement on World Environment Day
Since 1967, the Palestinian environment has suffered from numerous problems due to the occupation's violations starting from its confiscation of the Palestinian land and depriving its original owners to control their own natural resources, to their theft of more than 85% of our water sources, which led to the decline of the Palestinian person's share to less than 90m3 per year, in addition to the contamination of our groundwater with waste water. Read More |
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UAWC Statement on World Environment Day
Following the European agricultural ministers' informal Council meeting on 30 and 31 May in the Netherlands, the European Coordination Via Campesina1 examined the document "Food for the future - the future of food" proposed by the Dutch EU Presidency to kick-off discussions on the future of the CAP after 2020, as well as the Council's discussions. Read More |
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People's Manual: Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests
People's Manual is a pedagogical and didactic guide, which aims to make it easier to understand the Guidelines and to provide a practical approach to people on how to use them in their struggles. Download the Publication |
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New edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!
Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a struggle for territory. This will require forging unions between –on one side– peasant farmers, day laborers, indigenous peoples, nomad shepherds, artisan fishermen, forest peoples and other rural communities, and –on another– city dwellers, especially those in suburban communities and consumers. Download |
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Meet the TTIP Campaigners - BBC Report
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, is a deal to cut tariffs and regulatory barriers to trade between the US and EU countries, making it easier for companies on both sides of the Atlantic to access each other's markets. Industries it would affect include pharmaceuticals, cars, energy, finance, chemicals, clothing and food and drink. But not everyone believes it would be a good thing, as the BBC's Catrin Nye reports.
Watch it on Via Campesina TV
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Pun Pun Farm and a Philosophy for life | by The Source Project
Pun Pun is a small organic farm, seed saving center, and sustainable living and learning center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Farmers here strive to find more ways to live a more self reliant lifestyle by growing organic food, building their own natural homes, and experimenting with low tech appropriate technologies. They seek to bring back the tradition of seed saving amongst farmers and growers by collecting, propagating, and exchanging indigenous and rare varieties.
Watch it on Via Campesina TV
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Podcast: Blain Snipstal speaks to The Secret Ingredient
"We can produce all the great food in the world, but if we're not working to transform the very nature of the relations of power in the food system, having good food will be null and void." - Blain Snipstal, La Via Campesina.
On 'The Secret Ingredient' Raj Patel, Tom Philpott, and Rebecca McInroy talked to peasant farmer Blain Snipstal about Agroecology, food sovereignty, and class struggle.
Listen to the Podcast on Via Campesina TV
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