Staff, La Via Campesina

“I decided to come here because we are building a necessary movement, that will claim back what was always ours: our peasant knowledge of doing agriculture”, said a woman farmer from Mali, as she was running to attend the women caucus, this afternoon.

Food sovereignty as a concept is under debate by various actors in the academia, activists and governments.

As women, men, peasants, smallholder family farmers, migrant, rural workers, indigenous, and youth of La Via Campesina, we denounce climate smart agriculture which is presented to us as a solution to climate change and as a mechanism for sustainable development.