La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement

In Central Kenya, the Kandara Residents Association has sustained decades long struggle for land restitution with little success.

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For decades, Kenyan farmers have faced exposure to pesticides banned or restricted in their manufacturers’ home countries.

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La Vía Campesina alert the world to the grave situation facing Ecuador.

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La Vía Campesina stands in solidarity with the peoples in Haiti who are fighting for their sovereignty and dignity.

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We reaffirm our recognition of their legitimate struggle for self-determination, territorial autonomy, and the defense of their ways of life, culture, and community organization.

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We reaffirm our commitment to stand with the struggles of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, to defend their sovereignty and self-determination, and to denounce the policies of interference, dispossession, and criminalization that violate their rights.

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We express our deep solidarity with the peasant, indigenous, and Garifuna organizations of Honduras, as well as with the communities, women, youth, families, and defenders of land and territories who face violence, threats, criminalization, and dispossession.

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In Cuba, land has always meant talking about food production, sovereignty and the future. Agriculture is at the center of national priorities to produce more and better to feed the people.

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Argentina’s experience unmasks the IMF’s liberal narrative and makes it clear that its sole objective is to subordinate countries through the extortion of foreign debt.

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We demand an immediate end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba—a silent genocide that violates human rights and condemns our people.

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Pax Silica represents a model of development that prioritizes the interests of global capital and geopolitical competition, over food sovereignty, democratic control over land and water, climate justice, and the rights and livelihoods of Filipino communities.

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A "national interest" won by giving away people's right to survival and their food sovereignty is no national interest at all.

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La Via Campesina expresses unwavering solidarity with the peasants and working people in Myanmar and their revolution against the military dictatorship and their resistance against capitalist exploitation

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Climate change is becoming a major threat for farmers globally, impacting communities everywhere. States and the UNFCCC (Climate COPs) have failed us, driving our planet towards a +3/5 °C by the end of the century, in an accelerating phenomenom.

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Framed as sustainable development, these projects restrict local access to traditional territories and resources, endangering livelihoods, cultural identity, and community rights.

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The 12th session of negotiations on a Binding Treaty opens in Geneva, aiming to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights violations and environmental destruction across their operations and value chains.

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La Via Campesina, hosted by its member organisation, the Assembly of the Poor (Thailand), came together on 7 October to raise a strong collective voice against the debt crisis and the neoliberal policies promoted by the World Bank and IMF, which have devastated rural communities, food systems, and people’s livelihoods.

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From October 12-18, 2026, the World Bank and IMF will hold their Annual Meetings in Thailand. Assembly of the Poor will mobilize to demonstrate that their policy prescriptions have inflicted severe harm on our people from the past to the present, and threaten our future.

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The renewal of the mandate helps preserve a vital institutional space within the United Nations for the defence and promotion of peasants’ rights.

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Land, collective work, and organization are the pillars of an unprecedented cooperative experience: 14,000 tons of pesticide-free rice, reaching thousands of people, purchased by the government, and even exported.

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