[E-rundbrief] Info 1900 - Peoples' Food Sovereignty, against Transnational corporations

Mo Okt 14 15:22:13 CEST 2019

E-Rundbrief Info 1900 -  La Via Campesina: La Via Campesina and its 
allies around the world celebrate the International Day of Action for 
Peoples' Food Sovereignty and against Transnational corporations on 16 
October each year.

Bad Ischl, 14.10.2019

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Harare: October 11, 2019: La Via Campesina and its allies around the 
world celebrate the International Day of Action for Peoples' Food 
Sovereignty and against Transnational corporations on 16 October each 
year.

La Via Campesina and its allies around the world celebrate the 
International Day of Action for Peoples' Food Sovereignty and against 
Transnational corporations on 16 October each year.

We celebrate this day to remind people that it is only possible to end 
hunger in the world with food sovereignty and peasant agroecology. The 
current economic and agricultural policies only perpetuate the food 
crisis and the destruction of biodiversity, promoting agribusiness and 
expelling peasants from their territories. The direct result of these 
policies is land grabbing and seed control by a handful of 
multinationals, which flood international markets with uniform, toxic 
and nutritionally poor food products while increasing poverty in rural 
areas.

Food sovereignty allows the peoples of the world to design their own 
agri-food policies, by promoting the production and distribution of 
peasant products to local markets, according to the demands and needs 
of the populations, while respecting the environment and the rights of 
peasants and consumers.

We celebrate this day as global climate change intensifies and 
manifests itself more and more, hunger has been on the rise since 2018 
affecting hundreds of millions of people, especially in rural areas.

The perpetrators of this crisis, we call multinational corporations, 
convert suffering and human lives into money and drive rural 
populations to despair. The world is seeing the violations of human 
and peasant rights that these companies commit: dispossession of land, 
contamination of water, looting of resources and land, poisoning of 
food with agrotoxics, and even the murder of peasant and indigenous 
activists and leaders. We have seen them burn Amazonia and forests in 
Africa. We have seen how a private court overturned the Ecuadorian 
court's decision against the oil giant Chevron, responsible for an 
environmental disaster in the country's Amazon region, and then the 
IMF just imposed an austerity policy on the Ecuadorian people.

We, peasants, men and women, indigenous peoples, rural populations, 
agricultural workers, in urban and rural areas, have long been 
claiming that we have the solution. Food sovereignty is able to cool 
the planet and bring relief to the climate crisis. Peasant agroecology 
is able to end famines, feed urban and rural inhabitants with healthy 
food, feed the soil with organic matter and preserve biodiversity.

The international peasant movement has fought for almost two decades 
for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and 
Others Working in Rural Areas since full respect for peasants' rights 
eliminates the conditions that allow the exploitation, repression and 
displacement of hundreds of millions of peasants and rural populations 
and saves them from poverty.
Major mobilizations of social movements and citizens are also taking 
place all over the world in October.

We join all initiatives against the power of multinationals and for 
the food sovereignty of peoples. We will be in Geneva in the process 
of the United Nations Binding Treaty on Multinationals and Human 
Rights to demand the rights of peoples and an end to impunity for 
multinationals. We will be in Rome to propose our solutions to the 
Committee on Food Security. We will also be in Palestine, at the 
International Conference for Food Sovereignty.  We will be everywhere 
with young people mobilised against climate change. We will say 
everywhere that agroecology and food sovereignty are the way not only 
to solve these crises, but also the way to prosperity in cities and 
the countryside.

ACT NOW!

This October 16, we call for action by organised social movements, 
unions, universities, the media and people's governments that 
prioritise their peoples. We call for increased pressure to enforce 
farmers' rights and for public policies based on food sovereignty and 
not on the interests of the global market and agribusiness. There can 
be no food sovereignty without respect for peasant rights. There can 
be no food sovereignty without agrarian reform and social justice, 
organise actions in the territories, denunciation mobilisations, 
forums, seminars, farmers' fairs, film screenings,  all expressions 
are important to demand the implementation of peasant rights through 
land reform and social justice.

Send us all the actions planned for this day to our address 
lvcweb at viacampesina.org, we want to make them visible on our global 
action map. Also send us articles, audio, photos and videos of all the 
actions to be published on our website and on ViaCampesinaTV.

Follow us on our social networks:

#FoodSovereignty, #PeasantsRightsNow, #LaViaCampesina

Let us globalize the struggle, let us globalize hope

We feed our peoples and build the movement to change the world!

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