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La Via Campesina, an international peasants organization promoting small-scale sustainable agriculture and peasants’ rights celebrates its 20th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has grown to represent 200 million farmers all around the world in 150 member organizations from 70 countries. The central themes of La Via Campesina are sustainability, food sovereignty and human rights. The organization emphasizes the role of women and youth in agriculture and opposes neo-liberal agricultural policies. In celebration of the anniversary, the organization has published a book of reflections from various members of the organization.
10 June, 2013 | La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary in Jakarta - An Open Book Published
La Via Campesina, a global peasants movement, celabrates its 20 years of work for the rights of small- and medium-scale farmers around the world. The celebrations in Jakarta are combined with the organizations' sixth global conference. The conference is the platform which once in four years summons together all member organizations of La Via Campesina for mutual decisionmaking. See the press release on the occasion here.
La Via Campesina has also published an open book reflecting on the journey of the organization. The authors of the book represent a wide range of people that have participated in the organization, from farmers to academicians. Download the reflections here.
La Via Campesina's Open Book: Celebrating 20 Years of Struggle and Hope
- Introduction
- Women of La Via Campesina: Creating and Occupying our Rightful Spaces
Nettie Wiebe - From Food Sovereignty to Peasants’ Rights: an Overview of Via Campesina’s Struggle for New Human Rights
Priscilla Claeys - Harvest of wisdom: Dialogue Among Via Campesina Representatives
Annette Aurélie Desmarais - The future will not be monocultured
Alexander Heubuch - India: A conversation with farmers of the KRRS
Ashlesha Khadse and Niloshree Bhattacharya - Indian farmers rise up against the corporate hijack of the world
Niloshree Bhattacharya and Ashlesha Khadse - Zimbabwe’s land reform farmers prosper despite difficulties
Joseph Hanlon - Constitutionalization of the struggle for food sovereignty in Nepal: Success, prospects and challenges
Pramesh Pokharel - Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in South Africa
Mercia Andrews - La Via Campesina: An Historical and Political Analysis
Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Paul Nicholson - The Radicalization of the Struggles of the Food Sovereignty Movement in Africa
Ricado Jacobs - La Via Campesina and Agroecology
Peter M. Rosset and Maria Elena Martinez-Torres
