European Coordination Via Campesina

Why Europe and the world needs a Declaration on Peasants' Rights

Article Brussels, 15 Nov 2018

We still have a rich peasant culture in this part of the world, but affected by poverty, with a shrinking space on the market or marginalized into an invisible economy, affected by massive economic migration, […] Continue reading

AT LAST! Peasants’ rights declaration before UN General Assembly : For the sake of coherence EU governments must vote in its favor

Press release Brussels, 25 Oct 2018

Today the “UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas” will be presented at the UN General Assembly in New York*. Millions of peasants from La Vía Campesina can […] Continue reading

PRESS RELEASE | Schloss Hof, Austria : We want a sustainable and just change of EU’s CAP

Press release Brussels, 25 Sep 2018

The ECVC and its Austrian member ÖBV rallied today in front of the gathering of EU agricultural ministers in Schloss Hof, Austria, demanding an urgent change of the EU’s food and agricultural policies. Continue reading

ITPGRFA: the biotech industry tries to replace farmers’ rights with the breeders’ rights

Press release Brussels, 17 Sep 2018

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The trouble with soy

Publication Brussels, 31 Aug 2018

Given the troubled history of commodity soybean production in Latin America, this has raised alarm bells for peasant farmers and those that believe in a more equitable and sustainable food system rooted in aroecology. Whilst […] Continue reading