La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement

Renewing the mandate is not simply about maintaining a UN mechanism but ensuring that the voices, rights and struggles of peasants remain visible and recognised.

The post LVC Calls on the UN Human Rights Council to Renew the Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on UNDROP appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

For several decades, IMF's financing has often been conditional on adjustment measures and economic reforms that profoundly transforms the way a country produces, trades and consumes its food.

The post Briefing Note: Trade Liberalization in the Carebbian Region and IMF Impacts in Haiti and the Dominican Republic appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

The LVC Arab regional meeting in Tunisia places ecological agriculture at the heart of a political struggle over who decides the future of food.

The post LVC Arab Regional Meeting: Sovereignty Over Land, Water, and Seeds Before Increasing Production appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

Honduras must immediately stop the execution of over 1000 eviction orders issued under a new law that shields agro-industrial land from historic tenure claims- says the UN experts.

The post UN experts: Honduras must immediately halt mass evictions of peasant, Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

The financing on offer for recovery, largely structured as loans, simply turns a climate disaster into new sovereign debt for a country that had no hand in causing it.

The post Grants, Not Loans: ANPFA, Nepal’s Peasants’ Union, Demands Climate Justice After Deadly Floods appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

This podcast by ESAFF explores why farmers continue to challenge the WTO and call for a just trade framework that works for people, not just markets.

The post Beyond Free Trade: An Alternative Trade Framework Based on Food Sovereignty | ESAFF Podcast appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

The provisional application of the EU-Mercosur FTA without a vote from the European Parliament remains a democratic scandal.

The post Europe: Temporary ban on Brazilian meat and honey highlights EU-Mercosur risks, says ECVC appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

This briefing note focuses on trade and its effects on peasantry and food sovereignty in Africa.

The post Briefing Note on Africa Trade Issues: Impacts of Trade Liberalisation on Peasants appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

Despite numerous complaints, the government of Daniel Noboa signed a Free Trade Agreement with Canada, even though the public had not been made aware of the final text of the agreement.

The post Ecuador: Trade Agreement with Canada Threatens Indigenous Peoples’ Rights appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

With prices down, costs up, and trade barriers potentially loosening further, peasant farmers across several provinces are mobilizing in South Korea.

The post South Korea: Peasant Unions Take to the Streets Over CPTPP trade pact and Collapsing Crop Prices appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

August unfolded against a grim backdrop of human suffering. We, at La Via Campesina, answered with solidarity rather than silence.

The post 2026 | August News Wrap: Updates from LVC Members Worldwide appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

ECVC together with other agricultural organisations met with Commissioner Hansen and Irish Minister Heydon to discuss this summer’s severe weather events and expressed concern over the authorities’ lack of preparedness for this foreseeable crisis.

The post Europe | Meeting with Hansen and Heydon: ECVC calls for immediate support to ensure no farms are lost appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

At what point does a woman's life become a femicide statistic? At what point do we stop seeing their faces, their stories, their dreams, and their life plans? What has to happen for the files of the thousands of women still waiting for justice to stop gathering dust in state archives?

The post Beyond the numbers: femicide in Honduras as an expression of structural violence against women 2020-2026 appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

The Letter to the UN special rapporteurs calls for an independent investigation, protective measures for those affected and a response from the Panamanian State within 60 days.

The post Complaint regarding alleged illegal surveillance of social organisations in Panama submitted to UN special rapporteurs appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

Newly elected to La Via Campesina’s Coordination Committee, Goo Jeom Sook enthusiastically explains to us what Korean agriculture is like, her farm, her commitments and the recent mobilisations that have shaken the country.

The post In South Korea, Peasant Women Cultivate the Land and the Struggle appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

This report by ETC Group and GRAIN provides a snapshot on the state of agribusiness concentration in six key agricultural sectors: commercial seeds, pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals and livestock genetics.

The post Top 10 agribusiness giants: Corporate concentration in food and farming – 2026 Update appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

In response to the havoc caused by industrial aquaculture and its threat to food sovereignty, the Nyéléni Global Forum in 2025 decided to launch a global campaign to resist corporate control, further destruction from this industry and the privatization of ocean and coastal areas.

The post Nyéléni Newsletter: Against the Tide of Industrial Aquaculture appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

For farming families, we ask that relief and compensation reach tenant, landless and unregistered cultivators who hold no land papers; that seeds reach them before the winter planting; that farm loans be suspended.

The post Nepal Flash Floods: La Via Campesina Stands in Solidarity with the People of Nepal appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

From August 12–14, the South Asia Women's Articulation of La Via Campesina met in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where they carried out a conjunctural analysis, exchanged views on the ongoing struggles of peasant women within the region, and laid out a clear action plan.

The post South Asia Women’s Articulation: Demands for Wider Representation, Recognition and Equity Echo in Sri Lanka Meeting appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

ANPFA has mobilized its cadres and district organizations for search, rescue, and relief work alongside security forces and local government. Its provincial committees in Bagmati are coordinating support for displaced families.

The post Nepal Flash Floods: Early Assessment by ANPFA Indicates Extensive Damage in Villages Near the Border appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.