Peasants fight for land access to acquire food sovereignty worldwide
Summary
At the end of 2023, between 1-8 December, over 400 smallholder farmers representing 200 million small-scale food producers from 182 movements in 81 countries gathered in Bogotá, Colombia for the 8th International Conference of La Vía Campesina (LVC). As well as bringing activists together – for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic – to discuss the most pressing issues for peasants globally and to create a common agenda, the event also marked the 30th anniversary of a movement which was born in Mons, Belgium in 1993. Some olive trees which are more than 600 years of age are being cut to give land to the settlers,” says Hatem Aouini who is part of the Million Rural Women and the Landless of Tunisia movement. The study concluded that land inequality is higher than previously reported and threatens the livelihoods of an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide involved in smallholder agriculture. You have to leave.’ In these cases, there were even many acts of physical and psychological violence,” says Anuka De Silva, a member of the Women for Land and Agricultural Reform in Sri Lanka and part of the International Coordination Committee of LVC.