Contacts by region:
South America:
North America:
Central America
Caribbean
· MST (Egidio Brunetto)SCS, Qd 06, Bloco A . Edificio Carioca, sala 311
CEP 70306-000 - Brasilia, DF,Telefono: 55-61-92710976+55-11-3361-3866
Email: [email protected]
· FNMCB « Bartolina Sisa » (Nemesia Achacollo)Av. Mcal Santa Cruz 1295, piso 4 of. 2
Casilla 4691, La Paz - BoliviaTel/Fax : +591-2-231 1037 Email : [email protected]
· UNORCA (Alberto Gomez)Juan de Dios Arias, n 48Col. Vista AlegreDelegación Cuauhtemoc, CP 06860 México D.F. Tel/Fax: +52-55-57-4150 65 , +52-5557-40 04 86
Email: [email protected]
· NFFC (Dena Hoff)110 Maryland Ave., N.E. Suite 307, Washington, DC 20002 - USA
Tel.: +1-202-543 5675 Email: [email protected]
· COCOCH (Rafael Alegria)Colonia Alameda, 11 Avenida (Alfonso Guillén Zelaya), entre 3 y 4 Calles, Casa 2025, Apartado Postal 3628 - Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. -
Honduras, C.A. Tel/fax: +504. 235.99.15 Tel/fax: +504. 232.46.79 E-mail: [email protected]
· ATC (Yolanda Areas Blass)Apartado postal A-244. Managua - Nicaragua
Tel: +505-278-0616, Fax.+505-2784575Email : [email protected], [email protected]
ANAP (Mario de laO)calle 1, nr 206 Esquina 13,
Vedado C.de la Habana, CubaTel : +53-7-324717 Email : [email protected], [email protected]
CONAMUCA (Juana Ferrer) Av Independencia No 1063, Zona Universitaria,
Distrito Nacional, Apdo Postal 905-2, Feria.Tel/Fax: 00-1-809 686 7517 Email:
Europe
South East Asia
South Asia
Africa
Contacts:
· CPE (Paul Nicholson/Ingeborg Tangeraas)18 rue Sablonnière - Bruxelles - Bélgica
Tel: +32.2.217 3112 Email: [email protected]
· FSPI (Henry Saragih)(See International Operative Secretariat)
· Korea Women Farmers Association KWFA (Mrs. Yoon Geum
Soon)#302,338-6, Yangjae2-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Koreatelp : 82 2 529 6349 Email : [email protected]
· KRRS (Chukki Nanjundaswamy)636, Ideal homes layout- Rajarajeshwarinagar, Bangalore- 560
098, IndiaTel/fax: +91.80. 860 4640 Email: [email protected]
· BKF (Badrul Alam) - BangladeshTel.: +880-2-741 4049 Email : [email protected] ,
UNAC (Diamantino Mhampossa)Via Campesina Office for Africa
Rua Dr Jaime Ribeiro, n°104, 2°DtoMaputo, Mozambique
Tel/ Fax : +258 21 327895Email : [email protected]
CNOP ( Mariam Sissoko) - MaliBP:E2169 Bamako, Mali
Rue 200 Porte 727 Kalabancoura Tél/Fax: 00223 228 68 00
International Operative Secretariat (IOS) of La Via Campesina
General Coordinator: Henry Saragih Address: Jl. Mampang Prapatan XIV No. 5 Jakarta
Selatan 12790 Jakarta - Indonesia. Phone:+62-21-7991890 Fax:+62-21-7993426
E-mail: [email protected] www.viacampesina.org
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La Vía Campesina and Migrants march, Hong Kong 2005
La Vía Campesina women march, Hong Kong 2005
World Social Forum 2003, Porto Alegre
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Who is La Via Campesina?
How was La Vía Campesina created?
What is our main objective?
We are the international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. We defend the values and the basic interests of our members. We are an autonomous, pluralist and multicultural movement, independent of any political, economic, or other type of affiliation. Our members are from 56 countries from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
In May of 1993, the First Conference of La Via Campesina was held in Mons, Belgium, where it was constituted as a world organization, and its first strategic guidelines and structure were defined. The Second International Conference was held in 1996 in Tlaxcala, Mexico; the third in 2000 in Bangalore, India; and the fourth in 2004 in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
The principal objective of La Via Campesina is to develop solidarity and unity among small farmer organizations in order to promote gender parity and social justice in fair economic relations; the preservation of land, water, seeds and other natural resources; food sovereignty; sustainable agricultural production based on small and medium-sized producers.
Z What do we defend? Peasant, family farm-based production
People's food sovereignty
La Via Campesina promotes a model of peasant or family-farm agriculture based on sustainable production with local resources and in harmony with local culture and traditions. Peasants and farmers rely on a long experience with their locally-available resources. We are capable of producing the optimal quantity and quality of food with few external inputs. Our production is mainly for family consumption and domestic markets.
Food sovereignty is the RIGHT of peoples, countries, and state unions to define their agricultural and food policy without the “dumping” of agricultural commodities into foreign countries. Food sovereignty organizes food production and consumption according to the needs of local communities, giving priority to production for local consumption. Food sovereignty includes the right to protect and regulate the national agricultural and livestock production and to shield the domestic market from the dumping of agricultural surpluses and low-price imports from other countries.Landless people, peasants, and small farmers must get access to land, water, and seed as well as productive resources and adequate public services. Food sovereignty and sustainability are a higher priority than trade policies.
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Z Decentralized food production and supply chainsThe current industrialized agribusiness model has been deliberately planned for the complete vertical integration and to dominate all agriculture activities. This model exploits workers and concentrates economic and political power. La Via Campesina advocates a decentralized model where production, processing, distribution and consumption are controlled by the people the communities themselves and not by transnational corporations.
To globalize the struggle against injustice and neo-liberalism worldwide, La Via Campesina has two important dates:
1. 17th of April: The international peasant struggle dayPeople all around the world will commemorate the killing of 19 peasants struggling for land reform in Eldorado dos Carajas (Brazil) on April 17, 1996.
2. 10th of September: The international struggle day against WTO. On that date in 2003, Mr. Lee Kyun Hae, a Korean peasant, stabbed himself to death during a massive protest against the WTO in Cancun, Mexico. He was holding a banner saying “WTO kills farmers”.
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La Vía Campesina march, World Social Forum 2003, Porto Alegre
World Social Forum 2004, Mumbai
Protest against the WTO, Cancun (Mexico) 2003
Protest against rice import, Korea 2005
