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International Solidarity La Vía Campesina urgently calls on all governments around the world, especially progressive governments and those in the Global South, to act firmly and in a coordinated manner to end the apartheid and colonization imposed by the Israeli occupation regime.

International Solidarity Representatives of major international organizations will convene to launch the Friends of The Hague Group in Bogota as The Hague Group holds an emergency ministerial meeting on Palestine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 15 and 16. The Hague Group was established in January of this year in The Hague, Netherlands

This week, the state’s Chief Minister announced the cancellation of a controversial plan to acquire 1,777 acres of fertile farmland for an aerospace park. The decision marks the end of a three-and-a-half-year struggle led by local farmers and land rights activists.

While outsiders often dismiss Haiti as a chronically broken nation beyond help, reducing it to “the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, ” this view overlooks a deeper, largely invisible crisis—and the resilience within. Far from passive, Haitians are actively developing their own solutions

CLOC, which is organized into three regions: the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, is convening its VIII Continental Congress, to be held in Mexico from December 1 to 10, 2025.

Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants' Seeds Between July 27 and 29, the eighth edition of the Peasant Festival, in Jaru, Rondonia, drew attention for the diversity of themes, foods, seeds, arts, and expressions it presented. With the motto "for integral ecology and climate justice, " the Festival, organized by La Vía Campesina, sought to draw attention to the role of traditional peoples in addressing the environmental crisis through their cultures.

Annual Reports 2024 marked the beginning of a new cycle for La Via Campesina. After our historic 8th International Conference held in Bogotá, Colombia, in December 2023, we entered a year of reorganization, renewed political clarity, and collective movement building. This was not a routine transition. It came at a moment when the structural crises of capitalism—intensified by climate catastrophe, deepening inequality, ongoing wars, forced migration, and the erosion of democratic spaces—continued to unfold across our territories.

Food Sovereignty In the current situation, it is difficult to imagine the existence of agriculture and production in Gaza, where there is no security, peace, and much less arable land. After 20 months of violent attacks, more than 56,000 people have been killed. In the West Bank, however, agriculture is still a reality.

The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism will not participate in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake +4 at the end of July, or its preparatory processes these legitimize an agro-industrial system, and the financial interests of a few, to the detriment of peoples’ rights.

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Climate and Environmental Justice International participants from La Via Campesina and allied organizations from ten countries gathered to build solidarity, share ancestral knowledge and unite struggles for food sovereignty and agroecology. Through self-determined agroecological action and mutual support among peasants, the they sought to strengthen Puerto Rico’s struggle against US colonialism and imperialism and embolden efforts to build international solidarity and resistance to capital’s climate crisis.

In June 2025, La Vía Campesina mobilized globally—from solidarity with Palestine in the Sumoud Convoy, to climate justice actions, seed sovereignty in Peru, protests in Thailand for democratic reform, and anti-GMO mobilizations in Europe—advancing food sovereignty and grassroots resistance worldwide.

From June 23 to 25, the German Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity hosted the Policies Against Hunger Conference in Berlin. This is the full statement.