Feeding our peoples and building the movement to change the world

Friends of the Earth International expresses its support for La Via Campesina's VII International Conference, emphasizing a shared commitment to food sovereignty, agroecology, and climate justice. The document summarizes three key declarations from the conference: the Euskal Herria Declaration, which calls for a global struggle against financial capital and imperialism; the Women's Assembly Declaration, which demands gender equality and an end to violence against women; and the Youth Assembly Declaration, which asserts the right of youth to land and resources for peasant agroecology.

• Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) expresses solidarity with La Via Campesina (LVC) in the struggle for food sovereignty and the goal of ending the expansion of capital over territories. FoEI identifies shared agendas with LVC, including climate justice, the fight against "false solutions" to climate change, opposition to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), and support for the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational corporations and Human Rights.
• La Via Campesina is described as a popular movement that unites regional, national, and local peasant movements to address the root causes of climate change and feed the world. The organization focuses on advancing agroecology, food sovereignty, and the defense of peoples' rights while opposing the privatization and corporate control of the commons.
• The Euskal Herria Declaration from the VII International Conference emphasizes that peasant and indigenous agriculture has produced healthy food for millennia. It calls for global solidarity to fight against financial capital, imperialism, and patriarchy to ensure the survival of "Mother Earth".
• The Women's Assembly Declaration highlights the necessity of full female inclusion in organizations as a prerequisite for democracy. It commits to fighting violence against women, condemning war, and recovering "good living" for humankind.
• The Youth Assembly Declaration asserts the right of youth to land, territories, and the resources necessary to practice peasant agroecology as a way of life, while emphasizing the need for collective knowledge creation and solidarity among global youth struggles.

APA

admin (2017). Feeding our peoples and building the movement to change the world. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/feeding-our-peoples-and-building-the-movement-to-change-the-world/

Chicago

admin. Feeding our peoples and building the movement to change the world. Friends of the Earth International, 2017. https://www.foei.org/feeding-our-peoples-and-building-the-movement-to-change-the-world/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{admin2017feeding, author = {admin}, title = {{Feeding our peoples and building the movement to change the world}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2017}, month = oct, url = {https://www.foei.org/feeding-our-peoples-and-building-the-movement-to-change-the-world/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }