La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | May 2018

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DECLARATION OF GÜIRA DE MELENA

Joined together in this First Global Encounter of Agroecology Schools and Formation Processes of La Via Campesina, we affirm based on the broad diversity of our peasant agricultures, that we are the peoples who produce the food and other agricultural products needed by humanity. Read More [3]

FEATURED ARTICLES FROM MAY 2018

LA VIA CAMPESINA SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA TO STRENGTHEN ADVOCACY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE IN THE REGION!

African smallholder farmers constitute over 80% of all farms, producing over 70% of the food consumed on the continent, relying on farmer saved traditional seeds and traditional farming practises informed by century old indigenous knowledge systems. Read More [4]

FIGHT, BUILD A PEOPLE'S AGRARIAN REFORM! LETTER FROM THE MST TO THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE

This moment calls for unity in action among progressive forces and an effort to build a People's Project for Brazil capable of challenging the country's structural problems, fighting extreme poverty and unemployment; bringing development back; facing the issue of housing and urban mobility in the cities; guaranteeing quality public health care and education; carrying out agrarian reform in the countryside; protecting and stopping the privatization of common natural goods; and restoring national sovereignty. Read More [5]

LA VIA CAMPESINA STRONGLY DENOUNCES THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL ON PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

La Via Campesina strongly condemns the continuous killings, usurpation, land grabbing, looting of natural resources and the policy of apartheid led by the criminal state of Israel against the Palestinian people Read More [6]

THE FUTURE OF THE CAP: SMALL-SCALE FARMERS SPEAK OUT FROM THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

How can our current agricultural and food system respond to the present challenges it faces? In response to the event's opening question, ECVC panellists demonstrated that in terms of solving challenges posed by climate change, small-scale farming can make an excellent contribution by supporting unique agro-biodiversity as well as various wild animal and plant species. Read More [7]

OPPRESSION OF PAKISTAN'S CARICATURED FEUDALISM

British colonialists bestowed vast tracts of land mainly to the revenue collectors (zemindars) in order to raise land revenue. This grafted native Indians onto the British structure, insuring their loyalty to British authority. After partition this class, along with the comprador bourgeoisie, became Pakistan's hybrid ruling class.Farooq Tariq, General Secretary, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee writes. Read [8]

AFRICAN PEASANTS DEMAND CLIMATE JUSTICE TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS: "TIME OF REAL SOLUTIONS IS NOW!"

Peasant farmers of La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa and allies resolved to send an open letter to the Ministerial Committee responsible for Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of their respective regional governmental bodies to demand climate justice and the adoption of peasant based solutions, such as Agroecology and Food Sovereignty. Read More [9]

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

PEASANT AGROECOLOGY ACHIEVES CLIMATE JUSTICE - A PRIMER

This primer is developed as part of the project Building Climate Justice Advocacy with small-scale farmers in Southern and Eastern Africa developed and implemented in partnership between Afrika Kontakt and La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC -SEAf), with input from allies.

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_"PESTICIDES OUT!"_ EUROPEAN COORDINATION VIA CAMPESINA (ECVC) LAUNCHES A PEASANT AGROECOLOGY MANUAL

Farmers and peasants are the victims of a system that relies on socially disastrous choices that seek to 'profit at any price'. These choices include encouraging an increase in production, producing ever-cheaper food, and imposing free trade and economic competition.

How did we get here? What are the causes and effects of pesticide use? What are the alternatives?

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FEATURED VIDEOS

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The Fatality of Land Grabbing: Aggravating Climate Change and Undermining Peasant's Lives Watch Video [13]

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Climate Change is not Gender Neutral Watch Video [15]

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