La Via Campesina Reclaims Right to Food for People, not Profit
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TeleSUR - “We don’t speak of land ownership, but land access, crucial to ensure the right to food,” said activist Alejandra Serrato Delgado.
The world's largest social movement, La Via Campesina, launched a pan-European campaign for peoples' control of land, seeds, and water on Friday with a call for addressing “incoherent” European policies that have impacts on small agricultural producers both in the continent and in the global south.
The campaign “Hands on the Land for Food Sovereignty” calls for building alternatives to combat the corporate control of the food system that threatens the livelihoods of small farmers and fails to respond to the growing challenges that climate change poses to feeding the world.