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Food Sovereignty is Culture of Peace, an excerpt from my blog of June 1, 2015.<\/p>\n
Peasant movements for food sovereignty are an important part of the global movement for a culture of peace, for several reasons.<\/p>\n
First, they are the first line of defense against the advances of the culture of war. As
\nwe said in the document that we sent from UNESCO to the UN to define the culture of peace, it
\n“represents a major change in the concept of economic growth which, in the past, could be
\nconsidered as benefitting from military supremacy and structural violence and achieved at the
\nexpense of the vanquished and the weak.” (2) What better way to describe the advances of a few
\ntransnational corporations, supported by so-called “free-trade treaties” who are attempting to
\nmonopolize the seeds that farmers use throughout the world and to impose monoculture
\nagriculture based on their seeds and their pesticides?<\/p>\n
The transnational corporations are supported by the military power of nation states
\naround the world, not only by the great powers, but also by the governments of the small
\ncountries. An example is Guatemala, where despite pressure from a strong peasant movement to
\nsupport a Rural Integral Development law, the law is blocked by a coalition of right-wing parties.<\/p>\n
Second, the peasant movements are organized not only locally, and to an increasing extent, on a global scale.
\nLook at the map of protests on April 17, the International Day of Peasant Struggle against Transnational Companies and Free Trade Agreements. There are actions on every
\ncontinent.<\/p>\n
The peasant movements are based ultimately on the wisdom and experience of their ancestors as
\ndescribed in the blog from this February, “Listen to the indigenous people.” (5) This is clearly stated in the declaration of the 6th Congress of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations: “We emerged from the heart itself of the 500-year process of indigenous, peasant, black and popular resistance.” (6)<\/p>\n
The peasant struggle ultimately concerns all of us. As we concluded in the February blog, we
\nneed to \u201corganize local cooperatives and local food production instead of importation and agrobusiness . . . In this way we can protect ourselves against the crash of the American empire and the global economy that it manages.”<\/p>\n
Finally, we can say that the peasant movement for sustainable agriculture is not only part of the global movement for a culture of peace, but perhaps its most critical component because it will enable us to survive after the crash and during the period when it may be possible to make a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace. For this reason it is especially important <\/p>\n
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This theme refers to the following CPNN articles:<\/p>\n
Agricultural offensive: how Burkina Faso is moving towards self-sufficiency in food production<\/a><\/p>\n Report of the 2025 Ny\u00e9l\u00e9ni Global Forum on Food Sovereignty and Global Solidarity Greenpeace: Here are the REAL culprits of the agricultural crisis in France<\/a><\/p>\n La Via Campesina calls on States to exit the WTO and to create a new framework based on food sovereignty<\/a><\/p>\n Indian farmers call off lengthy protest after govt assurances<\/a><\/p>\n VIEW Reactions to India\u2019s decision to repeal farm laws<\/a><\/p>\n Several Social Movements are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit, will hold counter mobilizations in July<\/a><\/p>\n Pope urges inclusive and sustainable food systems<\/a><\/p>\n India: Activist Disha Ravi, 22, Arrested Over Toolkit, Faces Conspiracy Charge<\/a><\/p>\n Irate farmers storm Delhi on tractors as tear gas deployed and internet cut off in scramble to defend Indian capital<\/a><\/p>\n Environmental and Farmers Organizations in Italy Stop Government Attempt to Give Green Light to GMOs and NBTs<\/a><\/p>\n Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community\u2019s Quest for Peace<\/a><\/p>\n India\u2019s Supreme Court puts controversial agricultural laws on hold amid farmers\u2019 protests<\/a><\/p>\n India : \u2018Delhi Chalo\u2019 explainer: What the farmers\u2019 protest is all about<\/a><\/p>\n FAO : Strong support for innovation and digital technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a><\/p>\n Feeding the people in times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua<\/a><\/p>\n Navajo Nation: Seeds of Hope during the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n Agroecology: The Real Deal For Climate Crisis In Africa<\/a><\/p>\n North Africa: The Corona pandemic and the Struggle for our Peoples\u2019 Resources and Food Sovereignty<\/a><\/p>\n Earth Day Communiqu\u00e9 \u2013 22nd April 2020 Making Peace with the Earth<\/a><\/p>\n USA: The Rebirth of the Food Sovereignty Movement: The pandemic is reviving the push for locally produced foods<\/a><\/p>\n USA: How Detroit\u2019s farms and gardens are adapting to the COVID-19 crisis<\/a><\/p>\n Grow your own: Urban farming flourishes in coronavirus lockdowns<\/a><\/p>\n Agroecology and peasant agriculture to preserve biodiversity<\/a><\/p>\n In Latin America, agroecology is a deeply political struggle<\/a><\/p>\n France: Pierre Rabhi decorated with the Legion of Honor<\/a><\/p>\n France: The farmers who bought an old Lidl supermarket<\/a><\/p>\n France: Ces paysans qui ont rachet\u00e9 un Lidl supermarch\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n Guatemalan campesinos embrace ancestral farming practices to prevent migration<\/a><\/p>\n Uruguay: Declaration of the National Meeting and Festival of Family Farming and Producers of Creole Seeds<\/a><\/p>\n Argentina: Final declaration of the 6th Congress of CLOC Via Campesina<\/a><\/p>\n Argentina: CLOC-VC congress for supported food sovereignty and integral agrarian reforms<\/a><\/p>\n April 17: Farmers mobilise around the world against Free Trade Agreements and for food sovereignty<\/a><\/p>\n Interview with Vandana Shiva: Why small farms are key to feeding the world<\/a><\/p>\n Seed laws that criminalise farmers: resistance and fightback<\/a><\/p>\n France: Interview with a young farmer<\/a><\/p>\n Urban Farming Is Booming in the US, but What Does It Really Yield?<\/a><\/p>\n The film \u201cDemain\u201d, a manifesto?<\/a><\/p>\n Rennes, France : 210 000 habitants vers l\u2019autosuffisance alimentaire !<\/a><\/p>\n Rennes, France: 210 000 inhabitants move towards food self-sufficiency!<\/a><\/p>\n Changing the system to address injustices: discussing with Mamadou Goita on the World Social Forum<\/a><\/p>\n Three Colombian women tell us why preserving seeds is an act of resistance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Food Sovereignty is Culture of Peace, an excerpt from my blog of June 1, 2015. Peasant movements for food sovereignty are an important part of the global movement for a culture of peace, for several reasons. First, they are the first line of defense against the advances of the culture of war. As we said … Continue reading What is the relation between movements for food sovereignty and the global movement for a culture of peace?<\/span>
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