International Food Sovereignty Day: 5 December 2011
01 December 2011
La Via Campesina is calling for an international food sovereignty day of mass actions on 5 December 2011. The international network is calling on all farmers, workers and the landless and all social movements to demand:
- Genuine agrarian reform for food sovereignty
- Agro ecological revolution as the solution to climate change
- Restructuring of the entire food system
- Full and equal participation of women in the new food system and in the society as a whole
- Building of a food system based on human needs
- End to multinational control of our genetic resources
- Seed sovereignty where seed can adapt and mitigate climate change
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