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La Via Campesina meets with the Executive Secretary of the COP-8

On March 25, a delegation from La Via Campesina composed of representatives from Canada, Honduras, Brazil, Togo, Chile, and Portugal, met with Ahmed Djoghlaf, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.  (27/03/06)

La Via Campesina receives a prize for its seed campaign

The work of La Via Campesina, an international organization of peasant movements, was recognized as "The Best Defense of Food Sovereignty" for its global seeds campaign, which began in 2003 and strengthened small farmers all over the world. The prize is awarded annually by the Coalition Against Biopiracy, a group of organiziations of civil society.  (27/03/06)

Victory of Peasant on Defending Seed from Terminator Technology
La Via Campesina receives a prize for its seed campaign

The work of La Via Campesina, an international organization of peasant movements, was recognized as "The Best Defense of Food Sovereignty" for its global seeds campaign, which began in 2003 and strengthened small farmers all over the world. (24/03/06)

La Vía Campesina says no to the Legalization of Death
Statement from La Via Campesina in support to the women from Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Via Campesina and environmentalists protest against "terminator" seeds
Message of solidarity with the rural women
According to organizations, certification of seeds
Transnational corporations seek to dominate the food
Terminator and intellectual property to be discussed
Peasants mobilize against the proposed 4-year waiting period for

At March 16th , nearly 1500 peasants from Via Campesina participated in a demonstration in front of the Expo Trade Center in Curitiba where the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Cartegena Protocol for Biosecurity (MOP 3) is being held.  (20/03/06)

Peasants mobilize

Nearly 1500 peasants from Via Campesina participated in a demonstration in front of the Expo Trade Center in Curitiba where the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Cartegena Protocol for Biosecurity (MOP 3) is being held.  (17/03/06)

“GMOs” are poison

Monsanto is a murderer. You are standing in our way, in the way of Via Campesina.” This is how delegates participating in 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Cartegena Protocol for Biosecurity (MOP 3) were greeted by more than 1500 members of Via Campesina. (17/03/06)

La Via Campesina occupies an area planted with illegal transgenic seeds in Paraná

The peasants denounced the illegal activity of experimenting with transgenic seeds in the area, an activity that has already been confirmed by the National Institute for the Environment and for Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), located in the “absorbing” zone of Iguaçu National Park.  (15/03/06)

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