Rio+20 : Globalizing the struggle against agrochemicals

2012-06-22 00:00:00

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Click here to watch the video of the Press Conference in United Nations with Chavannes Jean-Baptiste and Nettie Wiebe from La Via campesina
(June 19, 2012, Río de Janeiro). La Vía Campesina organized a meeting of the Continental Campaign against agrochemicals within the context of the People’s Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The goal was to share experiences from different countries in their struggles against these poisons and to form an international space that brings together these experiences that are already being constructed.
In the Fifth Congress of the CLOC-Via Campesina, which took place in Quito, Ecuador in 2010, it was decided to launch a continental campaign against agrochemicals and in favor of life. Among the g