LA VIA CAMPESINA

MARCH 12. 2025

ECVC Women’s Articulation send open letter to Hansen on position of women in the Vision for Agriculture and Food

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.

MARCH 11. 2025

Chorus for ‘systemic transformation’ grows louder as Sri Lanka prepares to host the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum

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.

MARCH 6. 2025

2025 | February Newswrap: Updates from LVC members worldwide

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

MARCH 4. 2025

ECVC Conference of Farmers and Researchers: Day One Highlights Market Regulation, Access to Land, Fair Prices, and Generational Renewal

“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

FEBRUARY 28. 2025

La Via Campesina Delegation Visited Palestine in December 2024: Notes from their Daily Diaries [Part – 5]

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.

FEBRUARY 27. 2025

South African Land Issue: Southern and Eastern African La Via Campesina Denounces US Sanctions and Calls for Comprehensive Agrarian Reform

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.

FEBRUARY 25. 2025

DRC Conflict: Southern and Eastern African La Via Campesina Calls for International Solidarity, Flags Attacks on Women and Girls

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.

FEBRUARY 24. 2025

Europe: Poland’s latest proposal on GMOs/NGTs ignores farmers’ rights

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.

FEBRUARY 21. 2025

The MERCOSUR-EU trade agreement and its impact on peasant women: Notes from Brazil

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.

La Via Campesina Delegation Visited Palestine in December 2024: Notes from their Daily Diaries [Part – 4]

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.

FEBRUARY 18. 2025

#8M25: La Via Campesina calls for a Global Day of Struggle

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.

FEBRUARY 17. 2025

Argentina: “Peasant feminism is not going to kneel before this disastrous government”

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”.

FEBRUARY 14. 2025

‘New GMO’ Deregulation: Europe’s Small-Scale Farmers and Breeders Warn of Corporate Control and Socio-Economic Risks

The proposed law excludes new GMOs from the existing EU GMO legislation. In particular, it excludes most of them from being checked for safety, allowing their deliberate release into nature and their presence in the food chain without any assessment of the risks.