New Future

In the current context in which an entire population is suffering from starvation, we call upon the people of the world to join us and carry out, on a date of your choice, a GLOBAL DAY OF FASTING during 19-30 May 2025. Donate the money not spent on food to UAWC's emergency anti-starvation fund.

LVC members in Honduras urge the Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) to stop a proposed seed law that criminalizes peasants and Indigenous peoples, enabling corporate monopolies to control seeds and food, threatening sovereignty, biodiversity, and traditional farming practices.

In a position paper released in May this year, ECVC insists that CAP reform should focus on building food sovereignty by strengthening market regulation and allocating a significant budget based on appropriate criteria, ensuring a substantial shift towards agroecology.

Recently, we've talked about family farming. The key players in this process are families, peasants, and peasant women, with a vision of production also from the perspective of women. The first thing a peasant, a peasant woman, must have is land.

Tunisia’s engagement with the neo-liberal agricultural model accelerated with the 1995 EU-Tunisia Association Agreement. This agreement committed Tunisia to liberalize its agricultural trade and harmonize its regulations with EU standards.

The MST kicked off its 5th National Agrarian Reform Fair on May 8 and it will run to May 11 in São Paulo’s Água Branca park. The landless peoples' movement seeks to offer the Brazilian public a variety of food and products made on land occupied for agrarian reform across Brazil.

"Seed companies offer loans for seeds under the guise of women's empowerment. They make you believe that they’re helping our families escape poverty, but in reality, it traps us in a cycle of debt and hardship. "

ECVC calls for public policies that frame the use of technology responsibly, establish necessary limits based on the precautionary principle, and ensure that farmers maintain control over their tools and data.

The Association of Million Rural Women and Landless, a member of La Via Campesina, is following with deep concern the situation of migrant people in Tunisia especially those from sub-Saharan Africa.

ICARRD+20 offers a much-needed multilateral space to assess progress in the responsible governance of land, fisheries, and forests, and to agree upon and coordinate effective public policies to address critical issues related to land and commons.

The international response to Zimbabwe's land reform programme was swift and punitive. When the US Congress passed ZDERA in December 2001, it was explicitly presented as a response to Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, framing Zimbabwe’s actions as a threat to US foreign policy.

From the mountains to the coasts, from the great plains to the cities, the peasant struggles of April were seeds of hope, resistance, and life. In every demonstration, every fair, every proposal, we reaffirmed that food sovereignty is inseparable from social justice and the dignity of peoples.

Across Asia, peasant organizations marked May Day with powerful demonstrations, rallies, and assemblies demanding justice for rural and agricultural laborers. Despite different national contexts, the shared struggles—and the determination to resist—reveal a movement rooted in the enduring power of peasant and worker solidarity.

El Salvador has experienced a sharp decline between the 2019–2020 and 2022–2023 agricultural cycles. Both planted area and crop output have dropped significantly. Meanwhile, agricultural imports have surged, undermining national producers and making the country increasingly dependent on foreign food.