[E-rundbrief] Info 956 - Family farm agriculture fights hunger

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 956 - La Via Campesina: 
Sustainable peasant and family farm agriculture 
can feed the world! La Via Campesinas message to 
the CFS (UN-Committee on World Food Security) 
conference in Rome.

Bad Ischl, 11.10.2010

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La Via Campesinas message to the CFS:

Sustainable peasant and family farm agriculture 
can feed the world!

(Rome, October 11, 2010) With the number of hungry 
people in the world at almost 1 billion, it is 
clear that the current food system blatantly fails 
in providing healthy and adequate food for all. 
The recent increase in land grabbing is an 
integral part of the dominant corporate 
agribusiness model with large-scale industrial 
monocultures. This system has caused climate 
change and allows speculation on food for the 
benefit of a small minority.

Today the plenary session of the Committee on 
World Food Security (CFS) of the United Nations 
started in Rome. La Via Campesina, the 
international peasant movement, wants to take 
advantage of this occasion to reiterate that 
sustainable peasant and family farm agriculture 
can feed the world, as mentioned in our newest 
publication.

This also means that the solutions reside in 
changing our food system to a system within the 
framework of food sovereignty that has sustaibable 
family farming at its centre.

Small food producers are already feeding a huge 
amount of people, using smaller plots of land and 
working in a sustainable way.

More and more actors, such as stated in the IAASTD 
report recognise that small-scale sustainable 
farming is the way to find sustainable solutions 
to this terrible violation of the human right to food.

The CFS should put the right to food at the heart 
of the global food and agricultural governance and 
international institutions and governments should 
be made accountable regarding their efforts to 
implement this right. The points of view of civil 
society organisations directly affected by the 
food crisis should constitute the basis for the 
development of solutions. La Via Campesina will be 
present at the CFS to provide a follow-up to the 
discussions and propose real solutions.


Press contacts

Annelies Schorpion: +393393972104 (7th to 15th of 
October) or +32474847280, a.schorpion at eurovia.org, 
viacampesina at viacampesina.org

Lorenzo Misuraca (Aiab): +393293562461, 
l.misuraca at aiab.it
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