Peasants’ right to seed – Briefing paper by the Working Group on peasants and other people working in rural areas
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Peasants’ right to seed – Briefing paper by the Working Group on peasants and other people working in rural areas

ByUN Working Group on UNDROP

Article originally posted on: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/tools-and-resources/peasants-right-seed-briefing-paper-working-group-peasants-and-other (26 November 2025) The Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas has issued a briefing paper on peasants’ right to seed, in connection with the Eleventh Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture…

17 December: The 7th anniversary of UNDROP

17 December: The 7th anniversary of UNDROP

ByUN Working Group on UNDROP

The 17 December 2025 marks the 7th anniversary of the adoption of UNDROP!  We publish here below the statement issued by the UN Working Group of Experts on UNDROP on this occasion, which reflects on the ongoing relevance and urgency of the UNDROP. On this anniversary, the indispensable contributions of peasants, small-scale fishers, pastoralists, herders,…

Kenya’s seed sharing ruling a milestone for peasants’ rights and food security: UN experts
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Kenya’s seed sharing ruling a milestone for peasants’ rights and food security: UN experts

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Image: https://static2.pelahatchienews.com/data/articles/xl-why-seed-sovereignty-is-vital-for-indigenous-peoples-1694443833.jpg Defending Peasants’ Rights hereby republishes the press release issued by the UN Working Group on Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas on 11 December 2025 (available here) GENEVA – UN experts* today welcomed a landmark ruling of the High Court of Kenya declaring unconstitutional provisions of the Seed and Plant Varieties…

Trilogue agreement on GMOs-NGTs: A betrayal of farmers’ legitimate concerns on patents, health, the environment, and consumers’ rights to information
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Trilogue agreement on GMOs-NGTs: A betrayal of farmers’ legitimate concerns on patents, health, the environment, and consumers’ rights to information

ByCoordination Européenne Via Campesina (ECVC)

Defending Peasants’ Rights hereby republishes the press release issued by the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) on 04 December 2025. Yesterday evening, representatives from the three European institutions came to an agreement on the trilogue on the proposal to deregulate plant GMOs obtained by new genomic techniques (GMOs-NGTs). The European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), representing…

Landmark victory for Kenyan peasants and seed sovereignty
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Landmark victory for Kenyan peasants and seed sovereignty

ByKarine Peschard

Editor’s note: A new court ruling marks a historic milestone for peasants’ rights and the right to seeds in Kenya and internationally. In an unprecedented decision, the High Court has reaffirmed that rights protected by the Constitution must be interpreted in light of international frameworks such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of…

Bridging or Excluding? Peasant Participation in the Digitalization of Agroecology
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Bridging or Excluding? Peasant Participation in the Digitalization of Agroecology

ByRomberg de Sá Gondim

image: https://revolve.media/beyond/what-is-agroecology This article provides a summary of an academic paper written by Romberg de Sá Gondim (avaliable here) Introduction As digital tools tend to incorporate a top-down and corporate driven approach, these technologies have been easily assimilated by large-scale farms and in particular with the Green Revolution (Shelton et al., 2022). On another hand,…

Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit – COP 30 Belém
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Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit – COP 30 Belém

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Defending Peasants’ Rights hereby republishes the Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit (COP 30) available here. We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 12 to 16 November 2025, declare to the peoples of the world what we have accumulated in struggles, debates, studies, exchanges of experiences, cultural activities and…

The Kandy Declaration: A Collective Roadmap for Systemic Transformation
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The Kandy Declaration: A Collective Roadmap for Systemic Transformation

ByLa Via Campesina

From 6 to 13 September 2025, over 700 delegates from more than 100 countries gathered in Kandy, Sri Lanka for the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum. Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, fishers, feminist movements, youth, workers, and activists united across continents to renew the global struggle for justice, dignity, and life – giving birth to the Kandy…