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“If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sovereignty” (Via Campesina)

Friday 12 April 2013 by LRAN

GROWING POWER IN PEASANT SEEDS SYSTEMS: Farmers seeds and struggle against GMOs, AGRA- 2nd Green Revolution

Report on a workshop at the World Social Forum in Tunis to analyse and build strategies to strengthen peasant seed systems, and challenge the forces and technologies that undermine them (GMOs, AGRA and monopoly seed laws)

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Via Campesina Booklet

Global Campaign to End Violence against Women (Via Campesina)

Wednesday 13 February 2013 by LRAN

Via Campesina International, by means of this booklet, hopes to encourage debate and reflection concerning a subject that unfortunately is part of the daily life of many women all around the world: the phenomenon violence against women, systematically silenced, naturalized and made invisible by capitalist patriarchic society.

This material gives continuity to the Global Campaign to End Violence against Women that was launched by Via Campesina in 2008. This booklet will guide discussions in our meetings and educational processes related to this theme. It also serves as the foundation for our daily actions and struggles to end violence against women.

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First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Peasant Seeds

Surin Declaration (Via Campesina)

November 6 -12, 2012

Wednesday 13 February 2013 by LRAN

Surin, Thailand. La Via Campesina International delegates, representing our regional member organizations, are meeting in Surin province of Thailand in Asia to have the First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Seeds. The main objective is for La Via Campesina to share experience and construct (...)

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Jakarta, September 2010

Sustainable Peasant and Family Farm Agriculture Can Feed the World (Via Campesina)

Via Campesina Views

Monday 20 December 2010 by LRAN

The 2008 world food price crisis, and more recent price hikes this year, have focused attention on the ability of the world food system to “feed the world.” In La Vía Campesina, the global alliance of peasant and family farm organizations, we believe that (...)

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Land Gabbing : Action de Via Campesina au siège de la FAO (Via Campesina)

Tuesday 23 November 2010 by LRAN

Land Gabbing : Action de Via Campesina au siège de la FAO Cargado por Confederation_paysanne

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STOP LAND GRABBING NOW!!

Say NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank (Via Campesina)

La Via Campesina FIAN Land Research Action Network GRAIN

Monday 12 April 2010 by LRAN

State and private investors, from Citadel Capital to Goldman Sachs, are leasing or buying up tens of millions of hectares of farmlands in Asia, Africa and Latin America for food and fuel production. This land grabbing is a serious threat for the food sovereignty of our peoples and the right to (...)

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La Via Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement (Via Campesina)

By Maria Elena Martinez-Torres and Peter Rosset

Thursday 18 March 2010 by LRAN

The origin and evolution of the transnational peasant movement La V a Campesina is analysed through five evolutionary stages. In the 1980s the withdrawal of the state from rural areas simultaneously weakened corporativist and clientelist control over rural organisations, even as conditions (...)

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