- Via Campesina
Via Campesina (from Spanish "la vía campesina", the
campesino way) describes itself as "an international movement which coordinatespeasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities fromAsia ,Africa , America, andEurope ". They are a coalition of over 100 organizations, advocating family-farm-basedsustainable agriculture and were the group that first coined the term "food sovereignty ". ["Global Small-Scale Farmers' Movement Developing New Trade Regimes",Food First "News & Views", Volume 28, Number 97 Spring/Summer 2005, p.2.] Food sovereignty refers to the right to produce food on one's own territory. Probably their best known spokesperson is the French farmerJosé Bové .The organisation was founded in 1992 byRafael Alegría , and had its original headquarters inTegucigalpa ,Honduras .The headquarters office of Via Campesina is now inJakarta ,Indonesia .Henry Saragih is the International Operative Secretary.Organized worldwide into eight regions, the group has members throughout the world. It receives support from UK charity
War on Want amongst others.References
External links
* [http://viacampesina.org/main_en/index.php Via Campesina English-language home page]
* [http://www.waronwant.org/Uniting+small+farmers+and+landless+people+to+fight+against+exploitation+11167.twl War on Want's Via Campesina project page]
* [http://www.tni.org/detail_pub.phtml?know_id=79 Via Campesina: an evolving transnational social movement]
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