2024 marked the beginning of a new cycle for La Via Campesina. After our historic 8th International Conference held in Bogotá, Colombia, in December 2023, we entered a year of reorganization, renewed political clarity, and collective movement building.

This was not a routine transition. It came at a moment when the structural crises of capitalism—intensified by climate catastrophe, deepening inequality, ongoing wars, forced migration, and the erosion of democratic spaces—continued to unfold across our territories. These crises affect rural communities globally, but they are also sparking renewed struggles, alliances, and radical imaginations. Just like many other movements, civil society organisations and activists all over the world we were concerned about how the US elections and the geopolitical tremors between the South and the collective West would draw the focus away from the urgent and critical issues. The uncertainty that has been building over the years on the political ramifications as the far-right, racist, nationalistic and parochial groups started to take over more political power in the Asia, Latin America and the West has come to bear. The Israeli genocidal war in Palestine is one clear example of the unfolding political ramifications. Through commission and omission of governments especially in Europe and in North America, the Israeli apartheid state, shielded from being held accountable for the war crimes, relentlessly massacred Palestinians.

In 2024, we welcomed a new International Coordination Committee (ICC), with new comrades carrying the responsibility of global coordination. Together, we strengthened the life of the movement (“organicity”), renewed the dynamic of our articulations—youth, women, and diversities—and reinforced our working collectives to reflect emerging challenges and struggles. We also reactivated our formations, building political and technical skills among new generations of leaders, with a strong focus on feminisms, agroecology, communication, trade, and public policy work.

As we collectively entered the second half of the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF), we intensified our institutional engagement across multiple UN platforms, while anchoring our demands firmly in the struggles of grassroots communities. We contributed to key moments such as the Global Family Farming Forum, CFS 52, Committee on Commodity Problems 76, IFAD Farmers’ Forum (FAFO), and COP29, bringing peasant voices and proposals into institutional spaces that are too often captured by corporate interests.

We also advanced our work to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), with several regions beginning to use it in their advocacy and policy work. With the establishment of the new UN Working Group on Peasants’ Rights, where one of our comrades and allied were elected, we now have an opportunity—and a responsibility—to ensure this instrument is translated into action.

In parallel, we mobilized globally: for Palestine, for agrarian reform, for climate justice, for seeds, for territories, and for the dignity of all rural peoples. We continued to call for a paradigm shift that reclaims food systems as Commons for the well-being of people and the planet, based on the centrality of human rights, that puts food sovereignty into practice, recognizes the primacy of public policies and strengthens a genuinely inclusive, democratic and coherent model of governance able to attain the right to adequate food and nutrition for all, now and in the future. Through our days of action, local struggles, and campaigns, we reaffirmed that another world is not only necessary—it is already being built in the territories we defend.

This Annual Report is a testimony to that collective work. Each section reflects the energy, creativity, and political clarity of our global movement. It is also an invitation to deepen our connections and commitments, because the challenges we face demand nothing less than radical internationalism, care, and solidarity.

“We are the guardians of the land. We are the seeds of resistance. And we will keep rising, together.”