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It is a political assault on a people’s right to live with dignity, care for their land, and determine their own future. We stand with UAWC and all Palestinian peasants who continue their struggle under the weight of occupation and injustice.

Retail grocery companies’ revenues increased despite a decrease in the volume of food purchased by Canadians. Over the past 30 years the retail price of bread has increased 50%, while Canadian farmers have not seen an equivalent increase in the price of the wheat that they sell at the elevator.

SPI has steadily expanded its presence across 29 provinces, defending 600,000 hectares of land, developing agroecology practices, and influencing agrarian policy. The congress was an opportunity to consolidate this progress and reflect on current political and economic challenges.

Peasant Youth Articulation From July 21 to 25, 2025, thirty regional youth delegates of the Youth Articulation of La Vía Campesina from over twenty countries gathered in Morogoro, Tanzania, for the biannual international meeting. They shared the various struggles and the issues affecting them and made commitments to continue to fight for dignified agrarian policies, agrarian reforms, and an alternative trade framework.

Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform The Landless Workers' Movement denounces the stalling of Agrarian Reform and demands an effective commitment from the government. Land concentration continues to be one of the main causes of inequality in Brazil, with land being one of the most important assets protected by elites, and its disputes are a driver of constant tension, violence, and attacks on the rights of nature and its peoples.

In a packed schedule of field visits, lectures, and discussions, LVC delegates studied and observed a wide range of agricultural practices: from family farming at the village level to industrial-scale operations at the county, provincial, and national levels. This diversity offered a comprehensive view of China's current agricultural landscape.

The violent interception of the Handala Boat, which occurred while the vessel was sailing in international waters, constitutes a grave violation of international law. It breaches the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , which affirms the right to freedom of navigation and prohibits the use of force against civilian ships on peaceful missions.

La Via Campesina expresses its deep concern over credible reports indicating that the Handala Solidarity Boat, currently en route to Gaza, is under drone surveillance—signaling a serious and escalating threat to this peaceful civilian mission organized by international civil society.

Peasants, artisanal fishers, traditional peoples, and rural workers in Brazil face structural challenges that threaten their livelihoods and fundamental rights. Land concentration and agrarian conflicts are exacerbated by the lack of agrarian reform and the privatisation of common lands, leading to violence and impunity.

Bangladesh's Daily‑Based Temporary Workers Employment Policy, 2025, introduced by the Ministry of Finance, allows government agencies to hire workers on a daily basis for up to 22 days per month, aimed at filling urgent or essential roles. The Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labourers’ Federation has strongly criticized the policy, calling it misguided and harmful to workers’ rights.

When governments normalize genocide and institutions retreat behind silence, it is the duty of peoples' movements to act. The Handala mission stands as a concrete expression of grassroots determination in the face of institutional failure and global silence.

While India is in the middle of negotiating a trade agreement with the US, Indonesia has already entered into a deal that grants American agricultural goods duty-free access—moves that farmers say will lead to long-term dependency and harm.

"The territorial violence criminalizes struggles, increases persecution, threats, arrests and murders. The dispute in the territories is patriarchal, colonial, LGBT-phobic and sexist. And we are the organizations that have historically defended the territories. "

Peasant youth face abandonment, dispossession, and the structural violence of public policies that deny essential rights such as health, education, food, housing, decent jobs, and access to land. The consequence is clear: inequality is growing, our lands and common goods are being monopolized, and our dignity as peoples is being violated