La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement

Framed as sustainable development, these projects restrict local access to traditional territories and resources, endangering livelihoods, cultural identity, and community rights.

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The 12th session of negotiations on a Binding Treaty opens in Geneva, aiming to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights violations and environmental destruction across their operations and value chains.

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La Via Campesina, hosted by its member organisation, the Assembly of the Poor (Thailand), came together on 7 October to raise a strong collective voice against the debt crisis and the neoliberal policies promoted by the World Bank and IMF, which have devastated rural communities, food systems, and people’s livelihoods.

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From October 12-18, 2026, the World Bank and IMF will hold their Annual Meetings in Thailand. Assembly of the Poor will mobilize to demonstrate that their policy prescriptions have inflicted severe harm on our people from the past to the present, and threaten our future.

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The renewal of the mandate helps preserve a vital institutional space within the United Nations for the defence and promotion of peasants’ rights.

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Land, collective work, and organization are the pillars of an unprecedented cooperative experience: 14,000 tons of pesticide-free rice, reaching thousands of people, purchased by the government, and even exported.

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Protests against data centers have exploded across the US, with communities revolting against a multitude of proven damaging effects and the devastation of agricultural land.

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MST training on the impacts of El Niño brought together science, agroecology, and grassroots organizing to discuss a scenario of climate extremes, the limits of adaptation policies, and ways to protect food production.

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September was busy month for our movement! From debt and financial dispossession to land, food sovereignty and agrarian struggles, peasants and rural communities continue to resist policies that threaten their rights and livelihoods. Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, La Via Campesina members are mobilising, building alliances and advancing agroecology and food sovereignty while defending land, territories and the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Islanda Micherline, from CLOC–Vía Campesina, speaks about reparations, racism, and the food sovereignty of rural women

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Partial data of 2026 shows that even with fewer murders, conflicts in rural areas show growth in the first half of the year

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Faced with this risk of a sharp rise in global hunger, it is essential that national governments and international institutions act early enough to support local food production and stabilize food prices.

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This September, as part of the Global Day of Action Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements, La Via Campesina hosted a global webinar featuring a lecture by renowned author, academic, and activist Raj Patel.

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Agrarian reform is historical reparation. It is not only about economic restitution, although that is also important. We want the right to access land to be guaranteed.

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According to AOP, these negotiations could pave the way for amendments to laws that would facilitate accession to the 1991 International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV 1991).

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Omnibus X is a legislative package which, under the usual pretext of simplification to streamline the pesticide approval system, weakens the precautionary principle at the heart of European pesticide regulation.

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The event brought together peasant union leaders, researchers and lawyers from five South Asian countries to discuss the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) and its implementation nearly eight years after adoption.

The post Sri Lanka: South Asian Movements Call for Policies on Agroecology, Seeds and Trade Aligned with UNDROP appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

It was during the dictatorship of François and Jean-Claude Duvalier, from 1956 to 1986, that Tèt Kole took shape, long before its official birth.

The post Haiti: Haitian Peasant Movement “Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen” Celebrates 40 Years of Struggle appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

We call upon our member organizations and allies to mobilize against the damaging role that global financial institutions, including the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), play in undermining democracy and food sovereignty.

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'Bartolina Sisa' reaffirms their commitment to continuing the struggle as socio-economic and political challenges persist, rejecting the IMF loan, which they argue is plunging Bolivians deeper into debt.

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