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Challenges facing the Brazilian Peasantry: The UNDROP as a Tool for Struggle
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‘We Feed the World’ | An illustrated book in defense of peasant agriculture
Transnational Agribusiness has long violated the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas with impunity. Backed by capital accumulated by exploiting agricultural producers, these Corporations work in connivance with local authorities, governments and sometimes even mercenaries. They forcefully evict people from their lands, push through pro-corporate reforms at the cost of public…

Trade and biodiversity: two areas at the heart of the interaction between the right to development and UNDROP
Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development : Notes on the thematic discussion “Trade, biodiversity and the right to development: an equation to be constructed“ La Via Campesina and CETIM took part in the thematic discussions organized during the 10th session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development. In…

The UNDROP and its implementation in the context of Switzerland: an overview of political networks and challenges
In this article, Danilo Borghi Gonçalves Pinto analyses the perspectives and challenges of the Swiss coalition “Friends of the Declaration” in the promotion and implementation of the UNDROP in Switzerland. It identifies that although the coalition has mobilised the UNDROP on national and international spheres, the level of political articulation is greater in the latter…

EU-MERCOSUR FTA violates peasants’ rights and climate commitments
This article was originally published on the website of La Via Campesina. Joint statement by the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) and the Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo CLOC – Via Campesina condemning the EU-MERCOSUR free trade agreement as undemocratic and in violation of peasants’ rights and climate commitments. This statement comes at a…

The path of Peasant and Popular Feminism in La Via Campesina
This publication was originally published on the La Via Campesina website on June 11, 2021. La Via Campesina, presents the publication “The Path of Peasant and Popular Feminism in La Via Campesina” with the aim of strengthening the training processes of the Movement and to build Peasant and Popular Feminism as a political tool against…