[14] This feudalist connotation is one reason why the organization chose not to translate its name into English. Published 11 Apr. [14], In November 2017, La Vía Campesina received the XV Navarra International Prize for Solidarity (Premio Internacional Navarra a la Solidaridad). For Food Sovereignty La Via Campesina youth in struggle. [20], Representatives from each region meet at International Conferences roughly every four years. # 3 What is agroecology? For example, subsidised and imported wheat products would not fall under this category in a country where corn-based foods were the basis of traditional meals. Retrieved from <. ¡Sembramos semillas de luchas y resistencias, cosechamos (...), Sow the seeds of struggle and resistance, and (...), EXPLIQUÉ : Qu’est-ce que la souveraineté alimentaire (...), How is COVID 19 impacting peasants and other people (...), La Via Campesina, a weapon for political action, Globalize Hope: New film on the history of La Via (...), Subscribe to regular Via Campesina News Updates. La Vía Campesina carries out campaigns to defend farmer's right to seeds, to stop violence against women, for agrarian reform, and generally for … [7] They included health as a consideration for food production without agro-chemicals, as well as the importance of women's involvement in policy changes because women typically were barred from political involvement. [14] The perspectives of people around the world are needed to assess and improve global food production and sovereignty. Martínez-Torres, María Elena, and Peter M. Rosset, This page was last edited on 29 August 2020, at 18:23. At the signing of the Managua Declaration - the precursor to La Vía Campesina - all 8 people present were men. [7] The women on the committee were also heavily involved in editing the draft of the cornerstone position on food sovereignty that was presented at the World Food Summit in 1996. [6] With about 182 local and national organisations as part of the movement, La Via Campesina represents an estimated 200 million farmers around the world.

La Via Campesina - This global peasant movement, unites people to fight injustice in the food system. Food sovereignty gives us the hope and power to preserve, recover and build on our food producing knowledge and capacity. En la fuerza de la juventud de la Vía Campesina recae también la responsabilidad de avanzar en la construcción de nuestro movimiento, en las luchas y en las resistencias de los pueblos. A few weeks ago, the People’s Summit was held in Buenos Aires - outside the WTO, coinciding with the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization. Our Conferences. [21], Since September 2013, the secretariat has been in Harare, Zimbabwe. [26] The corporate food regime came about with the neoliberal economic theory which is motivated by efficiency and trade liberalization, and states that nations should focus their efforts and resources on producing goods and services where they have an advantage relative to other nations (that is, goods that they are best at producing), as cited by Philip McMichael. According to La Via Campesina's webpage, the movements main issues are promoting food sovereignty; demanding agrarian reform; people's control over land, water, territories; resisting free-trade; promoting popular peasant feminism;upholding human rights, rights of migrant workers; promoting agroecology; promoting peasant seeds systems; increasing the participation of youth in agriculture. # 2 What is the role of women in food sovereignty? "Global Small-Scale Farmers' Movement Developing New Trade Regimes", Borras Jr., Saturnino M. "La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform..", La Via Campesina: International Peasant's Movement. # 4 Why are we saying Outside the WTO?". La Via Campesina (LVC) defines itself as “an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world” with the goal to protect peasant agriculture for food sovereignty against large-scale corporate-driven agriculture. 2014. [7] Peasant women started to become more involved and pushing for women's rights at the International Conference in Tlaxcala in 1996. [4] As a result, national peasant groups began to form ties with transnational organizations, starting in Latin America and then on a global scale. 103-108. Organisation. Guy Kastler), on UPOV", "UNITED NATIONS: Third Committee approves the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas", "UN Backs Seed Sovereignty in Landmark Peasants' Rights Declaration", "Lush Spring Prize Influence Award Winner: La Via Campesina", "La Via Campesina receives award for "tireless struggle in favor of Agroecology, http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/our-conferences-mainmenu-28, http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/our-conferences-mainmenu-28/6-jakarta-2013/1427-la-via-campesina-international-passes-on-the-torch-to-africa, "International Agrarian Restructuring and the Practical Ethics of Peasant Movement Solidarity", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Via_Campesina&oldid=975655393, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Food and agriculture exempt from trade agreements, ‘What the market dictates’ (leave the mechanisms that create both low crop prices and speculative food price hikes intact), Fair prices that cover costs of production and allow farmers and farm workers a life with dignity, Access to local markets; an end to the displacement of farmers from their own markets by agribusiness, While prohibited in the Third World, many subsidies are allowed in the US and Europe, but are paid only to the largest farmers, Subsidies are OK that do not damage other countries via dumping (i.e. [4] La Vía Campesina also partners with other social movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to strengthen its international presence. [2], Via Campesina advocates for family-farm-based sustainable agriculture, and was the group that coined the term "food sovereignty".

[13], In recent years, the movement has placed greater emphasis on gender issues and women's rights, and strengthened its opposition to transnational corporations. Retrieved from <, La Via Campesina: International Peasant's Movement. [15] According to Desmarais (2008), the term "peasant" in English has a connotation related to feudalism, but in other languages and contexts, the meaning is broader; campesino comes from the word campo, meaning "countryside", which ties the people to the land. "[18], In 2004, La Vía Campesina was awarded the International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange, in San Francisco. It has presented in several international fora, such as: Via Campesina has been involved in the negociations[11] of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other people living in Rural areas, adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2018[12]. Chiefly a commodity; in practice, this means processed, contaminated food that is full of fat, sugar, A human right: specifically, should be healthy, nutritious, affordable, culturally appropriate, and locally produced, Problem of access and distribution due to poverty and inequality, Greatest when food production is in the hands of the hungry, or produced locally, Control over productive resources (land, water, forests), Common heritage of humanity, held in trust by rural communities and cultures; ‘no patents on life’, From the public sector, designed to support family agriculture, Drives prices down and farmers into poverty; we need supply management policies in US and EU, Industrial, monoculture, Green Revolution, chemical-intensive; uses GMOs, Agroecology, sustainable farming, no GMOs, Anachronism, the inefficient will disappear, Guardians of culture and crop germplasm; stewards of productive resources; repositories of knowledge; internal marker and building block of broad-based, inclusive economic development, Workers to be paid as little and possible, Bad for health and the environment; an unnecessary technology.