IARAA: Artificial intelligence at the service of the peasantry and food sovereignty in Brazil
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IARAA: Artificial intelligence at the service of the peasantry and food sovereignty in Brazil

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

In Brazil, the World March of Women (WMW) and the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) joined forces with the International Association for Popular Cooperation (Baobab) to develop an innovative artificial intelligence project aimed at advancing agroecology and agrarian reform by strengthening popular digital sovereignty. IARAA (Artificial Intelligence for Agrarian Reform and Agroecology) was launched in…

Defending Peasants’ Rights – Newsletter n°10

Defending Peasants’ Rights – Newsletter n°10

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

The UN Working Group on UNDROP: civil society consultation and first country visit  Engaging UNDROP’s rights holders in the next thematic report of the Working Group Defending Peasants’ Rights continues to collaborate closely with the experts from the UN Working Group on UNDROP. In March 2026, we organised an online dialogue with the former chair…

Without land, without seeds, there is no future for farmers
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Without land, without seeds, there is no future for farmers

ByElena Rusca - Geneviève Savigny

Article originally published in Spanish by Elena Rusca on June 25, 2026, in the Chilean newspaper El Clarín. Available here. *Image: El mundo campesino. Elena Rusca By Elena Rusca, June 25th, 2026 Interview with Geneviève Savigny, a member of the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) Geneva, June 25th, 2026 — Elena…

The Right to Development: A Leverage for Food Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP)
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The Right to Development: A Leverage for Food Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP)

ByZainal Arifin Fuat

Author: Zainal Arifin Fuat, leader from the Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) and member of the International Coordination Committee of La Via Campesina This article was originally published in the journal Lendemains Solidaires, available in French here. Food Sovereignty is intended as the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food, produced through ecologically sound…

UNDROP as a Shield for Fisher Peoples
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UNDROP as a Shield for Fisher Peoples

ByCandelaria Aráoz Falcón (ICSF)

Cover image credit: Christel Grimaud The adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) in 2018 marked a historic milestone for rural justice. However, to date, its development and implementation have largely focused on the peasantry. It is essential to remember that the rights…

International Day of Peasant Struggles! – 17 April
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International Day of Peasant Struggles! – 17 April

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Today, April 17th, marks the International Day of Peasant Struggles. The Defending Peasants Rights platform stands in solidarity with peasants and rural communities worldwide. We honour those who have lost their lives in the struggle for dignity, land, and justice, and those who continue to feed humanity, protect biodiversity, and sustain the planet. Peasants, fisherpeople,…

Yaoundé Declaration: The WTO And Free Trade Cause Hunger, Poverty And Inequality
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Yaoundé Declaration: The WTO And Free Trade Cause Hunger, Poverty And Inequality

ByCETIM

Article originally published by CETIM on April 2, 2026, available here. CETIM and La Via Campesina were in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to closely monitor the proceedings of the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference (26–29 March 2026). CETIM and LVC advocate the dismantling of the WTO, as its paradigm is based on a deeply asymmetrical economic and trade…

Burkina Faso: The peasantry, a seed of change?
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Burkina Faso: The peasantry, a seed of change?

ByRaffaele Morgantini (CETIM)

Article by Raffaele Morgantini, representative of CETIM at the UN, published in French in Le Courrier, Monday 15 December 2025. Since taking power through a coup d’état in September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré has assumed the presidency of Burkina Faso, leaving no one indifferent: for some, he embodies a historic turning point marking a break…

From Colombia to the World: A Podcast Bringing Peasant Rights Research to Wider Audiences
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From Colombia to the World: A Podcast Bringing Peasant Rights Research to Wider Audiences

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Illustration: Juan David Botero A new communication initiative has recently been launched in Colombia with the aim of bringing academic knowledge closer to the general public. It is a podcast series led by the Institute of Intercultural Studies and the Specialisation in Agrarian Jurisdiction at Universidad Javeriana in Cali, in partnership with the Observatory of…

The outcomes of the ICARRD+20 from the perspective of rural and indigenous movements
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The outcomes of the ICARRD+20 from the perspective of rural and indigenous movements

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Following the conclusion of the ICARRD+20 conference, held in Cartagena (Colombia) from 24 to 28 February, social movements have expressed their rejection of the conference’s final declaration, while praising their unity in the common struggle for rural and Indigenous people’s rights. This publication contains a press release originally published by La Via Campesina on 28…

Video of our Webinar | Nothing About Us Without Us – Realising the Right to Participation of Rural Peoples and Workers through UNDROP
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Video of our Webinar | Nothing About Us Without Us – Realising the Right to Participation of Rural Peoples and Workers through UNDROP

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

This webinar brought together rural movements, civil society organisations, and the Chair of the UN Working Group on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) for an international dialogue on one of the Declaration’s most fundamental principles: the right to participation. Held in the context…

ICARRD+20 must move beyond technocratic fixes to implement real, integral agrarian reform: Global Social Movements in Cartagena
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ICARRD+20 must move beyond technocratic fixes to implement real, integral agrarian reform: Global Social Movements in Cartagena

ByLa Via Campesina

This article was originally published by La Via Campesina on 24 February 2026 (available here). (Cartagena: February 23, 2026) On the eve of a historic intergovernmental conference on agrarian reform and rural development, nearly 300 delegates from worldwide representing peasants, Indigenous Peoples, artisanal fishers, pastoralists, and rural workers – organized through the International Planning Committee…