via campesina

13th December: La Via Campesina, International Peasant movement, highlight the huge impact of industrial agriculture on the climate as well as on people's lives and lands all over the world at the Axelborg building. Axelborg is the headquarters of the Danish Agriculture and Food Council the big players in industrialized meat production in Denmark. http://viacampesina.org/

Why we left our farms to come to Copenhagen

Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum

Tonight is a very special night...

Farmers movement mobilize in Copenhagen - infos

Wednesday, 02 December 2009  Media advisory - La Via Campesina
Industrial agriculture is the skeleton in the closet of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). If we consider production, processing and transportation, the whole food chain could be responsible for up to half of all global greenhouse gas emissions (1). However negotiators do not seem ready to acknowledge the impact of our current food and agricultural system - and the need to radically change our food policies.

Farmers movement mobilize in Copenhagen

Media advisory – La Via Campesina(Brussels, 2 December 2009) Industrial agriculture is the skeleton in the closet of the United...

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