[E-rundbrief] Info 2125 - Via Campesina - Call to Action for Food Sovereignty

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief Info 2125 - Via Campesina:  Call to Action: There is no 
Future without Food Sovereignty, Now is the Time to Transform!

Bad Ischl, 24.9.2021

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Call to Action: There is no Future without Food Sovereignty, Now is 
the Time to Transform!

  Food Sovereignty is Land, Water, Seeds, Bread and Solidarity!

Call to humanity to take action for food sovereignty

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(Harare, September 23, 2021) On October the 16th, we celebrate 25 
years of envisioning food sovereignty. This 25-year celebration and 
reflections are happening at a time when the planet and humanity is 
facing unprecedented crisis upon crisis. Climate change (heat waves, 
droughts, floods etc.) ravages the planet and biodiversity loss at 
catastrophic levels. Pollution is pervasive and chokes both 
terrestrial and marine life. Hunger, poverty and inequality are on the 
rise. COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the already dire situation. We 
urgently need to transform our way of life to adapt and survive. Now 
is the moment to globally coordinate people's actions in rural and 
urban to build equitable and healthy food systems. Food sovereignty is 
the solution to transform food systems, end hunger and malnutrition 
and to cool the earth, to preserve biodiversity, and respect the 
rights of peasants and workers! There is no future without food 
sovereignty.

The global food systems dominated by big businesses have not only 
failed but cause most of the problems and crisis we face today. The 
recent big business initiative at the UN Food Systems Summit to 
entrench their interests in and capture global food governance spaces 
and shape policy must be resisted. This coming October we call on our 
members, allies, friends, activists and other likeminded civil society 
organisations to mobilise for food sovereignty and against corporate 
capture of food governance systems. The people, the planet and not 
profits should come first in all our relations.

We, the peasants, men and women, indigenous peoples, rural 
populations, agricultural workers, the youth in urban and rural areas, 
have the solution –Food sovereignty and Peasant Agroecology.

LET'S UNITE TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE!

We can only build and guarantee a future with food sovereignty if we 
unite to transform our society by doing the following:

     Take action in your farm to make food sovereignty practices 
visible to the world (exchange seeds, organize farmers' fair for local 
food producers and consumers etc.).

     Adopt a seed(s) and start growing own food to strengthen local 
production. Share a photo(s) of this action with the 
#NoFutureWithoutFoodSovereignty

     Put pressure on governments and local authorities to prioritize 
food sovereignty in public policies and implement the UN Declaration 
of Rights of Peasants and other people working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).

     Engage in direct action, starting October 1st, to expose the 
agribusinesses and transnational corporations that affect our way of 
life and violate our rights and call them out in our communities. 
Resist corporate capture of our food system! Share a photo(s) of your 
action.

     In light of the worsening climate crisis, let's engage in more 
awareness activities on social media to give visibility our solution 
"#AgroecologyCoolsTheEarth"

     Solidarity through food donations: Let´s share the food we 
produce with those in need in our communities.

     Write and draw for food Sovereignty (see Call for Artists and for 
Writers)

Send us your actions, images, posters and articles to our email: 
lvcweb at viacampesina.org, tag us on social media twitter 
(@via_campesina), Instagram (@la_via_campesina_oficial) and Facebook 
(@viacampesinaOFFICIAL), and make visible globally our collective 
mobilization for a better society based on food sovereignty.

Food Sovereignty is Land, Water, Seeds, Bread and Solidarity!

#NoFutureWithoutFoodSovereignty #FoodSovereigntyNow

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     Matthias Reichl, Pressesprecher/ press speaker,
     Begegnungszentrum fuer aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
     Center for Encounter and active Non-Violence
     Wolfgangerstr. 26, 4820 Bad Ischl, Austria,
     fon: +43 6132 24590, Informationen/ informations,
     Impressum in: http://www.begegnungszentrum.at