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The UN Declaration on the rights of peasants as a tool for promoting collective rights
This article was published in Friends of the Earth International’s website in April 2021. Around the world, people and communities are active in defence of the commons, territories, and peoples’ rights. From peasants protecting their seeds and traditional practices from transnational agribusiness to forest communities resisting destructive logging, many of these collective struggles take place…
IARAA: Artificial intelligence at the service of the peasantry and food sovereignty in Brazil
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…
Palestine: no food sovereignty without national sovereignty
This article was originally published in CETIM’s website the 20th of March 2024. The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (a Palestinian peasant organisation and member of La Via Campesina), CETIM and FIAN International conducted a week of advocacy in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle against Israeli colonialist and genocidal oppression. This campaign took place…
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UNDROP in big format!
In support of UNDROP, FIAN Belgium has created a poster with the rights it contains. This work of art presenting UNDROP was made by artist Murielle Lô. The QR code on the bottom of the poster is a link to this website. To raise awareness of peasants’ rights, download this poster and circulate it as…
Recovering the cycle of wisdom: Beacons of light toward the right to seeds
Guide for the Implementation of Peasants’ Rights This guide was first published on Fian International website on May 4th, 2021. You can find it here. This guide aims to provide practical guidance for food producers’ organizations, civil society organizations (CSOs) as well as governments and public institutions about how to implement peasants’ and Indigenous Peoples’…
Video-interview with Guy Kastler (LVC): The importance of the rights to seeds for peasants
Guy Kasler, peasant rights activist and member of the Confédération Paysanne (France) and La Via Campesina, talks about the importance of the right to seeds for family farmers. Indeed, their ability to produce food and meet their own needs depends on it. But we mustn’t forget that this rights is also important for humanity as…