La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement

This article is provides a critical analysis of the Río Indio Dam and peasant resistance.

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On the occasion of Earth Day, five women and men farmers from all continents speak to L’Humanité about the ocean of challenges they face and the call for globalising the struggle against all forms of predation.

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Morgan Ody, a small-scale farmer and the general coordinator of La Via Campesina, a global organisation of food and land workers and small farmers, said the lives of working people were increasingly at risk.

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Islanda Micherline Aduel speaks about the struggle against imperialism and for food sovereignty in Haiti at a conference on “The peasantry in Haiti today,” organized by the Haiti support platform in France.

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The right of peoples to define their own food systems, to grow food in ways that are ethical, ecologically sound and socially just, to not be held hostage to the Strait of Hormuz or the profit margins of Cargill or Nutrien — is not a romantic fantasy. It is a material, political project.

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The Caribbean region of CLOC–Vía Campesina commemorates April 17 struggle and calls for comprehensive agrarian reform, while upholding food sovereignty as the central banner of the peasantry’s struggle.

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At a ceremony in Spain, Kallen Oliveira received the award on behalf of the MST and commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Eldorado dos Carajás Massacre.

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The National Farmers’ Union calls for a national agricultural model that guarantees full food sovereignty, advances rural development, and upholds human dignity for all.

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This commemoration represents a critical moment to reaffirm and strengthen the human rights of peasants, while also reflecting on the long history of their struggles against deep-rooted structural challenges.

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The research report is based on study involving 150 surveys and 80 in-depth interviews with families, prioritizing the participation of women and diverse rural and Indigenous populations.

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In Portugal, peasants have won important victories enshrined in the April Revolution and in the Constitution of the Republic through constant struggle over the last hundred years.

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2.5% of landowners concentrate 85% of agricultural land, while more than 300,000 peasant families live without land or with insecure tenure.

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