According to European Commission data, men receive 60% of CAP income subsidies, while women receive just 12% (European Court of Auditors, 2019) despite managing 29% of farms in the EU. This highlights structural inequalities in capital access.
The 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka this September 2025, will bring together over 50 social movements from more than 80 countries across all continents, and promises to build a global resistance against the polycrisis confronting the world today.
From land grabbing and corporate exploitation to environmental destruction and repression, peasants and food producers continue to resist and mobilize against the increasing control of multinational corporations over agriculture and food systems
“If markets continue to be deregulated, there will be no fair prices. The effects of deregulation are clear: major profits go to intermediaries and supply chain operators, while farmers receive low prices, and consumers face high costs
The simple act of filing an application to get a building permit costs 45,000 euros on average, and since the vast majority do not have the means to do so, most of the time, Palestinians in Jerusalem build without permits. They have no choice, families are growing. Israel then took advantage of it to order demolitions.
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform La Via Campesina Eastern and Southern Africa (LVC SEAf) region strongly denounces the recent US imposition of sanctions and withdrawal of vital health aid to South Africa following the government’s enactment of an Expropriation Act aimed at accelerating redress for the colonial land injustices.
In this war, women and young girls are regularly violated. Populations are tragically terrorized with impunity as a means of warfare. It is impossible to establish a stable society, and thereby their food sovereignty, in a territory where there is no peace and respect to basic human rights and dignity.
European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) has welcomed the importance given to the issue of patents, which are the main concern of farmers, but the solutions proposed by Poland will not be able to solve it.
The commercial pillar of the agreement reiterates historical asymmetries, which establishes unfavorable external constraints on South American cities, privileging the ancient exchange of mineral and agricultural goods, produced by MERCOSUR, for industrialized goods from Europe, such as vehicles, machinery and pesticides.
For the rural people who lived in Zone C, the Oslo agreements had a bitter taste. They remained under the thumb of the Israeli military administration, and contrary to promises of rapid decolonization, the number of settlements grew faster than ever.
The role played by peasant, indigenous, fisher, pastoralist, nomadic, migrant, and agricultural worker women and diversities is essential in the struggle for a social model based on Food Sovereignty and social and environmental justice.
Today she says she carries “three backpacks”: the struggle for peasant families, for women and for trans identities. Looking ahead to the Antifascist and Antiracist Pride March, she assures: “I am marching for those who today we can stand up and shout but we don't know if tomorrow we will be there”.