European Coordination Via Campesina

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

Press release Brussels, 17 Sep 2018

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Global Day of Action Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements

Article Brussels, 10 Sep 2018

03 September: Global bodies such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) that are directly and indirectly promoting a host of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements have created a criminal […] Continue reading

CAP: EU legislators must take on the urgent need to change course of current agricultural policy

Press release Brussels, 6 Sep 2018

The European Coordination Vía Campesina sent its position document and the necessary amendments relating to the legislative proposals of the future CAP to the Members of the European Parliament responsible of agriculture. Continue reading

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

Crunch time for the UN declaration: globalizing the struggle more urgent than ever

Mobilization Brussels, 16 Aug 2018

After ten long years of negotiations in Geneva, a ‘United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas’ is now at the point of being finalised. La Via Campesina is […] Continue reading

Decision of the European Court of Justice on new GMOs: a historic victory for peasants and citizens of the EU

Press release Brussels, 25 Jul 2018

The decision published this morning by the ECJ in case C-528/16 clarified the status of new GMOs. It clearly states that all these techniques do in fact produce GMOs and therefore must be regulated under […] Continue reading