"Current climate agenda is nothing short of disastrous as false solutions are promoted as climate mitigation tools" - warns Via Campesina : Via Campesina
Climate and Environmental Justice As COP29 unfolds in Azerbaijan, the world faces a defining moment in the climate struggle, with global temperatures shattering records, increasingly severe and frequent extreme weather events with profound economic and social repercussions. The current climate agenda is nothing short of disastrous. False solutions are promoted as climate mitigation tools but fail to address the root causes of the crisis. La Via Campesina and other social movements continue to affirm, food sovereignty, agroecology, and peasant rights as true solutions.
African People’s Counter-COP denounces the COP system and demands climate justice for Global South be at the centre of the climate action : Via Campesina
Peasants' Rights The African People’s Counter COP (APCC) gathered in Saly, Senegal with over one hundred participants, from 21 countries, participating. Many African voices - excluded from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties - were captured and legitimized during the gathering. It denounced the COP system, highlighted the impacts of climate change on African communities and showcased viable alternatives that can lead to just climate solutions across Africa.
South Korea: Prolonged heatwaves lead to brown planthopper infestations, ravaging rice farms : Via Campesina
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South Korea: Faced with Climate Crisis, Peasant Women Protest Corporate-Oriented Farming Policies and Food Imports
On August 21st, more than 600 peasant women gathered at the National Assembly in Seoul to voice their concerns to the government about agricultural policies related to climate disasters.
Agribusiness is the main responsible for the loss of native vegetation in Brazil, says study
In the Pantanal, the sharpest reduction has been in water surface, which has gone from 21% in 1985 to 4% in 2023, a clear effect of climate change. Experts warn that the prolonged droughts have led to the occupation of previously floodable lowland areas by agribusiness, with monoculture plantations.
La Via Campesina prepares for COP 16 on Biodiversity as it joins the Peasants' Summit in Colombia
On 29 and 30 August, in the run-up to the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), to be held in Cali from 21 October to 1 November, a delegation from La Via Campesina will be present at the Peasant Summit in Fusagasugá, Cudinamarca, Colombia.
Podcast: Peasant Agroecology Cools Down the Planet
Agroecology, as La Via Campesina sees it, is about producing healthy food and also about organizing the peasants who produce it so they have autonomy and control over both the means of production and the crops they choose to grow, with the primary aim of feeding people and ensuring food sovereignty.
Korean peasants protest as climate crises, crop loss, rising costs, and cheap imports pose existential threat
Trade Markets and Income Over 3,000 people reportedly attended the National Peasant Congress. Tensions escalated as police blocked farm machinery entry, leading to physical confrontations where one peasant was injured.
Brazil: Environmental crisis - How long do you have to wait to start making changes ? : Via Campesina
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Challenging the financing behind green and blue grabbing : Via Campesina
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