{"id":302,"date":"2011-03-26T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/via-campesina-locavores-worldwide.html"},"modified":"2011-03-26T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T16:04:41","slug":"via-campesina-locavores-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/via-campesina-locavores-worldwide.html","title":{"rendered":"Via Campesina: locavores worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nClaimed to be\n\n“the largest social movement in the world, with more than 400 million members,”<\/a>\nit’s\n\nVia Campesina<\/a>:\n
\nEnterremos el sistema alimentario industrial!\n
\nLa agricultura campesina puede alimentar al mundo!\n

\nBury the corporate food system!\n
\nPeasant agriculture can feed the world!\n<\/blockquote>\nPeasant agriculture as in local agriculture.\nIt’s a global movement of locavores!\n

\nThey’re planning an\n\nInternational day of Peasant’s Struggles on 17 April 2011:<\/a>\n\n\n

\n\n<\/a>\n(Jakarta, 22 February 2011) The dominant corporate food system has\nfailed. The promises of the 1996 World Food Summit, echoed by the\nMillennium Development goal of reducing hunger by 2015, will not be\nfulfilled.\n

\nToday hunger and food insecurity are increasing. Roughly one billion\npeople currently suffer from hunger, another billion are malnourished —\nlacking important vitamins and minerals — and yet another billion are\nover-fed. One global food system = 3 billion victims!\n

\nFood policies implemented over the last 20 years have been heavily biased\nagainst peasant agriculture, which nevertheless continues to feed more\nthan 70% of the people of the world.\n

\nLand, seeds and water have been privatized and handed over to\nagribusiness. This has pushed members of rural communities off the\nland and into the cities, leaving fertile land behind for transnational\ncompanies to grow agrofuels, biomass or food for export to consumers in\nwealthy countries.\n<\/blockquote>\nIt’s not like we in the wealthy countries don’t also have ill effects from\nfactory farming, such as that epidemic of obesity<\/a>\nand its resulting diabetes, heart disease, and other health problems.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nSo what is Via Campesina going to do about it?\n

\nThe time has come to radically change the corporate food system. La Via\nCampesina, a movement representing more than 200 million farmers around\nthe world – women and men – proposes Food Sovereignty as a effective\nand fair way to produce and distribute food in every community, every\nprovince, and every country.\n

\nImplementing food sovereignty means defending small scale farming,\nagroecology and local production whenever possible.\n<\/blockquote>\nLocavores worldwide!\n

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