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The second La Via Campesina booklet on “Peasant Rights and Food Production”, funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, is available now! The second of four in a series, these booklets are part of the popular education materials to be used as a crucial step in reconnecting those who inspired and created the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in the Rural Areas (UNDROP).
This second booklet explores how UNDROP can be used to (1) address and protect peasants’ rights to produce food on their own terms and challenge monopolies that control the land, tools, and technology, (2) transform food production and industrial food system into one based on agroecology and food sovereignty, (3) fight for the protection of traditional knowledge systems and cultures that shape peasant food production, (4) understand the state’s responsibilities and empower ourselves to raise our voices, and work towards comprehensive popular agrarian reforms to achieve food sovereignty.
The popular education materials will help La Via Campesina and its members and partners to effectively use the UNDROP in their struggles to assert and advance collective and individual rights. In so doing, they help to create broader awareness, promote deeper understanding, and enhance capacities (through training) of rural people’s movements.
The UNDROP popular educational materials were developed by La Via Campesina and FIAN International with support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
