New Future

"We, as women, are deeply engaged in production. We cannot build women’s economic power without recognizing that we are subjects of rights and that we are organized to create our own economic initiatives and strategies. "

Instead of investing in early warning systems, embankments, and rural infrastructure, successive governments and the military elite have prioritized mega-canals, export-oriented farming, and corporate agribusiness projects under the Green Pakistan Initiative.

This means that on the land we reclaim, beyond producing food, protecting nature, and safeguarding water and biodiversity, we must also forge new social relations among the people who inhabit it.

International Solidarity In Palestine, the Israeli occupation regime is waging a genocidal war in Gaza while deepening its project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. The famine iin Gaza is being deliberately engineered and weaponized. This is not humanitarian failure, but a war crime carried out with the full complicity of the United States and European powers. In this current context, La Via Campesina urgently calls on its member organisations and allies to strengthen their actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people and stop the genocide through starvation.

The National Farmers Union urges the federal government to withdraw Bill C-2, The Strong Borders Act. Bill C-2 jeopardizes the safety and rights of migrants and refugees, threatens agricultural production, and grants sweeping powers for the government to pry into the private lives of all Canadians.

A webinar organized by the IPC working group created space to examine how the current international trade system harms small-scale food producers, fishers, migrants, and local economies—and to collectively propose an alternative framework grounded in food sovereignty, justice, internationalism, multilateralism, and solidarity.

The current global context offers a window of opportunity to design a new global trade framework based on Food Sovereignty – one that truly serves the interests of peasants, small-scale food producers, and workers. Join us, and let us build the world we know is possible.

The destruction of food sovereignty has deep roots in colonial and genocidal violence. U. S. expansion devastated Native agriculture and buffalo. In 2003, Iraq’s national seed bank was bombed and looted, erasing ancient seed varieties. Syria’s seed bank declined as war escalated after 2011.

Voices from organizations around the world—including that of AbL Germany, CNA Portugal, Confédération Paysanne France, and CLOC — condemned this aggression and reaffirmed an international commitment to defend food sovereignty in the face of war.

The National Family Farm Coalition has issued a statement supporting Canada’s supply management system, calling it a model worth defending and emulating in the face of ongoing crises in the U. S. dairy sector.

The Confédération Paysanne will continue to fight for systemic changes in our economy so that we can finally break free from this deadly agrochemical system, driven by powerful lobbyists who prioritize their profits over our health and the environment.

Battered by crises—from COVID-19 economic shocks to the devastating 2022 floods—Pakistan has turned to corporate farming as a supposed solution and revenue source. To push this agenda, it has favored two wealthy allies: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates .

This agreement is disastrous on several levels: it supports and legitimises Trump’s use of tariffs as a weapon of colonialism and deregulation, as well as the huge purchases of fossil energy and military equipment in the US, which are incompatible with EU environmental legislation and also threatens living conditions of consumers and farmers.

In July, La Via Campesina joined the Freedom Flotilla’s Handala boat to break Gaza’s blockade, facing violent interception by Israeli forces. Despite this, solidarity with Palestine remains strong. Meanwhile, the movement's members organized agroecology and feminist trainings across several countries. Latest edition has all this and more!