Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates organizations the small ones and average peasants, agricultural workers, rural women, indigenous communities of Asia, America S, of Europe and of Africa. This network was born in 1993.
En France, the Peasant confederation and MODEF are is members.
Via Campesina militates for the right to the Food sovereignty and for the respect of small and average peasants.
Via Campesina made of April 17th the world Day of the country fights in remembering the 19 peasants without ground assassinated in 1996 by paramilitary militia.
History
In April 1992, at the time of the Congress of the National union of the farmers and stockbreeders (UNAG), in Managua (Nicaragua), met various leaders of rural organizations of Central America, North America and Europe which decided to create a coordination after having realized that the peasants of the countries of north and the peasants of the countries of the south were not competitor but faced the same difficulties, and were same manner prisoners of the policy of the multinational agro-alimentary companies.In May 1993, the first International Conference of Vía Campesina institutes the movement like worldwide organization, and definite her mode of organization and its statutes. This meeting took place with Mons in Belgium. In 1996, the second International Conference of Vía Campesina proceeded with Tlaxcala, with the Mexico. The town of Bengalore in India, accommodated the third conference. The fourth was held in Brazil near Sao Paolo, and the fifth will proceed in Mozambique in 2008.
Structures
Via Campesina is a movement independent of any political organization, economic or religious. She is composed by national or regional rural organizations whose autonomy is respected. Via Campesina is structured in eight areas: Europe, Asia of the North-East and South-east, South Asia, North America, the Caribbean, Central America, South America and Africa. In 2007, the movement gathered more than one hundred of organizations based in more than 60 countries. The CCI (Commission of Consultation International) are the international body which ensures the direction of the movement between the conferences. Each area delegates to it two militants, a woman and a man. Paul Nichoslon, originating in the Pays Basque and Inge Tangeborg in Norway is the representative Europeans sitting at the CCI.Via campesina its actions around six priority work axes
- structured food sovereignty with its corollary: the fight against the World Trade organization and the influence of the multinationals of agro-alimentary the
- the biodiversity and the fight against the GMO
- country agriculture
- the respect of the rights of the militants trade unionists and the rural communities
- the equitable access to the means of productions which are the ground, water and the seeds
- the recognition of the specific role of the women in agriculture that it is in the act of production, or in the transmission of the knowledge, and the promotion of the parity in its international authorities like in its organizations members
The seat of Via Campesina is currently fixed in Indonesia since 2004. Indonésien Henri Saragih, which succeeded Rafael Alegria originating in Honduras, occupies the function of general secretary.
See too
Internal bond
External bond
- Official site of Via Campesina
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