CLIMATE SUMMIT IN CANCUN NOV-DEC 2010 - HELP THOUSANDS OF PEASANTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES MAKE OUR VOICE HEARD

Via Campesina protest at 2009 Copenhagen Climate talks

An appeal from Via Campesina:

We are peasants, family farmers and indigenous peoples from Mexico and the world.

* Our sustainable farming practices cool the planet
* We defend the Mother Earth
* Help us say NO to false solutions to climate change!

We ask to you support a massive presence of peasants, family farmers and indigenous peoples from Mexico and the world at the Climate Change Summit (COP-16) to be held in Cancun, Mexico, from November 29 to December 10, 2010.

Women united for food sovereignty and against violence towards women

Via Campesina women in Maputo

Report by Via Campesina

In Maputo, Mozambique, on the occasion of the international seminar on building alliances for food sovereignty and against violence towards women held in Maputo from July 26 to 29, La Via Campesina worked together with World March of Women (WMW), Friends of the Earth Intenational (FoEI) and women of the countryside from Asia and Africa and shared our ideas to plan our work on women.

Let's improve school lunch food

Watch Me Grow - Three year olds gardening

Food First Fellow Raj Patel speaking on creating democracy in the food system

Food Sovereignty Tours To Bolivia, Mali/Senegal, and the Spanish and French regions of the Basque Country

Bolivian Farm Tour

These tours, offered jointly by Food First and Global Exchange, give you a front row seat into how farmers in diverse cultures are building local food sovereignty.