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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Via Campesina
		Via Campesina (from Spanish la vía campesina, the campesino way) describes itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America [The Americas – ed.
		The headquarters office of Via Campesina is now in Jakarta, Indonesia.
		Food sovereignty is a term originally coined by Via Campesina in a flyer at the World Food Summit +5 (Rome, 2002) to refer to a concept advocated by a number of farmers, peasants, and fishermens organizations, namely the claimed right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Via-Campesina (571 words)

	Via Campesina: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Via Campesina describes itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] organizations of small and middle-scale producers, EHandler: no quick summary.
		"food sovereignty" is a term originally coined by via campesina in a flyer at the world food summit +5 (rome, italyrome, 2002) to refer to a concept advocated...
		José bové (born june 11, 1953) is a french farmer, anarcho-syndicalist, member of the anti-globalization movement, and spokesperson for via campesina...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/V/Vi/Via_Campesina.htm (437 words)

	Via Campesina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Via Campesina (from Spanish la vía campesina, the campesino way) describes itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America [The Americas – ed.
		They are a coalition of over 100 organizations, advocating family-farm-based sustainable agriculture and were the group that first coined the term "food sovereignty".
		The headquarters office of Via Campesina is now in Jakarta, Indonesia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Via_Campesina (183 words)

	Via Campesina \| Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement
		Via Campesina is an international movement that coordinates organizations of peasants, small and medium-sized farmers, farm workers, rural women, and indigenous communities of Asia, Africa, America, and Europe.
		Via Campesina originated in April 1992, when various rural leaders from Central America, North America, and Europe came together in Manágua, Nicarágua in the context of the Congress of the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (National Union of Farmers and Cattlemen–UNAG).
		In May 1993, the First Conference of Via Campesina was held in Mons, Belgium, during which the world-wide organization was constituted and the first strategic lines of work were defined, along with their structures.
	www.mstbrazil.org /?q=vaicampesina (426 words)

	Via Campesina Call for Global Action
		Via Campesina believes that actions of peoples' resistance and mobilizations around the world are fundamental - as we did in Seattle - to deliver new and powerful blows to the WTO and to neoliberalism.
		For the Via Campesina the main day of actions should be September 10th, which will probably be the day for agricultural negotiations in the official meeting of the WTO in Cancun.
		In Mexico, the Via Campesina will organize an independent farmer and indigenous peoples' space in Cancun, where we will be united, in solidarity, and mobilized, with international delegations and Mexican peasant and indigenous peoples' organizations, as well as allied organizations and friends from all over the world.
	www.organicconsumers.org /corp/via_campesina.cfm (828 words)

	Via Campesina asks South African Government to negotiate with landless people in order to obtain an appropriate ...
		Via Campesina requests the South African government to discuss the genuine demands of the landless people at the negotiating table in a careful, humanitarian way in order to achieve an adequate solution.
		Via Campesina strongly condemns the illegal, illegitimate activities against landless and small farmers put forward by multinational companies and governments.
		Via Campesina demands the South African government to withdraw all the cases against poor farmers.
	www.focusweb.org /publications/2002/wssd-2002/via-campesina-statement1.html (725 words)

	Via Campasena - Spectrezine
		Via Campesina is an international organisation bringing together small farmers and rural workers from many countries in both South and North.
		We, members of Via Campesina, a world-wide organization of rural women, peasants, small farmers, rural workers, indigenous people and afro-descendants, from Asia, Europe, America and Africa, met in Itaici, Brazil, from 14-19 June 2004, for our 4th International Conference.
		Within Via Campesina, we will work hard to ensure that the numerical gender parity that we have reached is translated into real changes in the power relations between by men and women in our movement.
	www.spectrezine.org /resist/ViaCampesina.htm (1226 words)

	Red Pepper \| Tsunami Disaster \| The Democratisation of Aid, Peter Rosset and Maria Elena Martinez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Via Campesina is a unique global alliance of peasant, family-farmer and farm-worker, rural women and youth, indigenous and landless peoples' organisations, which represent as many as 150 million people worldwide.
		In this campaign Via Campesina is also working closely with,and sending support to, the member organisations of its sister alliance: the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, which has a strong presence in the affected regions of India and Sri Lanka.
		Via Campesina's global fundraising campaign is channelling assistance directly to affected communities of fisher-folk and peasants, for their own relief and reconstruction efforts, through their grass-roots member organisations.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /Feb2005/x-feb2005-RossetMartinez.htm (1133 words)

	via campesina \| Stuffed and Starved
		The multinational Syngenta Seeds is pressuring the Governor of the State of Paraná to expel the family farmers of the Via Campesina currently residing on the Free Land encampment with police force.
		Via Campesina Bolivia is celebrating the 17th of April in Montero, in the rural area around Santa Cruz.
		One group, the Via Campesina peasant movement, was reminding the world that everyone has to eat, and advancing its vision of ‘food sovereignty’, a programme that promises food for all, and a secure livelihood for those who grow it.
	stuffedandstarved.org /drupal/taxonomy/term/70 (898 words)

	Via Campesina: OPEN LETTER on IU
		For VIA CAMPESINA, biodiversity has as a fundamental base the recognition of human diversity, the acceptance that we are different and that every people and each individual has the freedom to think and to be.
		La Via Campesina está muy preocupada por el proceso de negociación que llevará a cabo ese Comité del 23 al 28 de abril del presente año en Spoleto, Italia y quiere expresar sus puntos de vista sobre este tema.
		Via Campesina se opone a cualquier forma de propiedad intelectual sobre cualquier forma de vida.
	www.ukabc.org /viacamp_april2001.htm (6665 words)

	Via Campesina June IU Letter
		Via Campesina considers the administration of the world’s plant genetic resources as a crucial issue on which no bargains can be made: all plant genetic resources have to be seen as part of the Earth's gene pool that have to be considered as a global commons to be jointly shared by all peoples.
		Via Campesina wants to reiterate its position as we have stated in our letter of 24-4-2001: We cannot accept IPR’s as a mechanism to redistribute the benefits derived from plant genetic resources.
		Via Campesina thinks that this behaviour is unresponsible and unacceptable seen the important issues at stake.
	www.ukabc.org /viacamp_june2001.htm (3361 words)

	GRAIN \| BIO-IPR \| 25 April 2001
		Via Campesina supports the principle that crop genetic resources should be freely shared amongst farmers and countries.
		Via Campesina demands the negotiators to respect these rights and fully incorporate them into any agreement, and to avoid any incorporation of IPR s on plant genetic resources in the International Undertaking.
		For VIA CAMPESINA, biodiversity has as a fundamental base the recognition of human diversity, the acceptance that we are different and that every people and each individual has the freedom to think and to be.
	www.grain.org /bio-ipr/?id=354 (3417 words)

	La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement - Home
		Via Campesina is an international movement with millions of peasants, landless and agricultural workers – we are men, women and youth from 132 organisations in 56 countries all over the world.
		The Via Campesina farmers are staying with as many as five thousand activists in a large temporary camp on the outskirts of the city.
		La Via Campesina is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small producers, landless people, rural women and agricultural workers and rural youth from around the world.
	www.viacampesina.org /main_en (878 words)

	ICSF - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Via Campesina distributes the funds through a number of member organizations in the region that are active in relief work and will be part of the reconstruction process.
		Via Campesina is also working closely with two fisherfolk organizations that are members of the World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP), with whom it has been collaborating for several years in different spaces at the international level.
		At the moment, being in an emergency situation, Via Campesina is distributing the funds that come in equally among the four countries.
	www.icsf.net /jsp/english/externalnews/newsDetails.jsp?id=17625 (329 words)

	International Award Recipient
		Via Campesina grew out of a 1992 global gathering of leaders from various movements who recognized the need for solidarity between peasant and small farmers, and the need for an international movement that could be globally strategic and tactical.
		Via Campesina stretches from India to Honduras, from Brazil to France, and is comprised of regional networks in every continent.
		Every day Via Campesina organizes to advance the struggle for farmers' autonomy; every three years they meet to advance their causes internationally.
	www.globalexchange.org /getInvolved/HRA04/ViaCampesina.html (198 words)

	2nd UPDATE Via Campesina Tsunami Fund : Houston Indymedia
		We want to clarify that KSKBA is a group of organizations that supports the principles of struggle of Via Campesina, and is moved by the spirit of struggle and leadership of Via Campesina (http://www.viacampesina.org).
		KSKBA is in the front line of struggle of Via Campesina internationally, and we ask for the strong political support of other Via Campesina members and supporters in the future.
		As Via Campesina (http://www.viacampesina.org) we have a number of member organizations in the region that are active in relief work and will be part of the reconstruction process.
	houston.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=36392 (2586 words)

	InterContinental Cry / La Via Campesina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Via Campesina is an international movementwhich coordinates peasant organizations of small and medium sized producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, America, and Europe.
		Via Campesina is organized in seven regions as follows: Europe, Northeast and Southeast Asia, South Asia, North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
		Via campesina has one member and is collaborating with other organisations in Africa.
	intercontinentalcry.mahost.org /unitytalk/viewtopic.php?id=29 (481 words)

	Via Campesina convoca suas organizaciones miembros a la IV Conferencia Internacional
		Via Campesina convoca suas organizaciones miembros a la IV Conferencia Internacional
		Los Jóvenes de la Vía Campesina se encontrarán por la primera vez a nivel internacional y esperamos que sea un lanzamiento fuerte de su presencia.
		Cada organización miembro de Vía Campesina enviará tres delegados (un joven, una mujer y un hombre) y además invitamos unos 50-100 representantes de otras organizaciones campesinas y también unos 50 representantes de organizaciones amigas.
	www.rebelion.org /sociales/040322via.htm (696 words)

	NFFC :: Fair Trade Policy :: Food Sovereignty
		Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates farmer and peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe.
		NFFC President George Naylor represented the North America region at the Via Campesina Food Sovereignty Commission meeting in April; he met with twenty-five other representatives from all over the world.
		The meeting opened on a sobering note when it was noted that a recent U.N. report on biodiversity supports the Via Campesina’s analysis: if the current system run by multinational corporations and free traders continues, the global environment, water, and food system wills be destroyed.
	www.nffc.net /issues/fair/fair_1b.html (354 words)

	Via Campesina Call for International Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Via Campesina believes that actions of peoples' resistance and mobilizations around the world are fundamental as we did in Seattle to deliver new and powerful blows to the WTO and to neoliberalism.
		Via Campesina calls on all its member organizations, friends and allies to redouble their efforts and carry out actions in every country, such as:
		In Mexico, the Via Campesina will organize an independent farmer and indigenous peoples' space in Cancun, where we will be united, in solidarity, and mobilized, with international delegations and Mexican peasant and indigenous peoples' organizations, as well as allied organizations and friends from all over the world.
	www.arena.org.nz /cancun17.htm (605 words)

	7-Misc: Via Campesina supports Indian farmers against WTO and GE
		Via Campesina fully supports the actions undertaken by KRRS and other Indian organisations and praise the courage of Indian farmers to counter the irresponsible and destructive behaviour of Monsanto in order to protect the environment and the local biodiversity by up rooting the modified cotton plants and neutralising them through cremation.
		Via Campesina calls for further actions world wide against the introduction of genetic engineering in agriculture.
		Via Campesina supports the demands of the KRRS and other Indian organisations: - a total ban on the testing of genetic engineering in agriculture - no patents on life, no amendment of the Indian patent act.
	www.gene.ch /genet/1999/Mar/msg00098.html (542 words)

	Via Campesina Seattle Declaration, December 3, 1999
		Via Campesina believes that we are experiencing a historic moment of international struggle.
		Via Campesina calls upon international and national movements, and non-governmental organizations to build strong alliances to continue to fight these neo-liberal policies and to build alternatives.
		Vía Campesina rechasa políticas neo-liberales que empujan a los países en una producción para la exportación, en detrimento de la producción alimentaria doméstica Los países en vías de desarrollo, están forzados a aceptar estas politicas para pagar su deuda externa.
	www.ratical.org /co-globalize/VCdec.html (1694 words)

	Via Campesina's Fourth International Conference
		We, members of Via Campesina, a world-wide organization of rural women, peasants, small farmers, rural workers, indigenous people and afro-descendants, from Asia, Europe, America and Africa, met in Itaici, Brazil, from 14-19 June 2004, for our 4th International Conference.
		We had the participation of more than 40 peasant organizations that joined Via Campesina during this conference as well as members of more than 80 civil society organizations which the Via Campesina recognizes as friends.
		Within Via Campesina, we will work hard to ensure that the numerical gender parity that we have reached is translated into real changes in the power relations between men and women in our movement.
	www.landaction.org /display.php?article=236 (1283 words)

	Via Campesina inaugurates the World Social Forum
		Juana Ferrer of Via Campesina at the Opening Ceremony of the Forum, with her interpreter Maria Elena Martinez.
		Via Campesina, the global alliance of peasant, small farmer, indigenous peoples, landless and agricultural laborers, and rural youth and women’s organizations, has formed part of the international council of the Forum since its initiation in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
		In the face of this, we of Via Campesina are firmly resolved to fight for food sovereignty, and for another world that we know is possible.
	www.bilaterals.org /article.php3?id_article=6982 (547 words)

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