Currently headquartered in Indonesia, Via Campesina is

is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and medium sized producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. It is integrated by national and regional organizations whose autonomy is jealously respected. Via Campesina is organized in seven regions as follows: Europe, Northeast and Southeast Asia, South Asia, North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Via campesina has one member and is collaborating with other organisations in Africa.

Since its founding in the early 1990s, it has brought peasant groups of similar political stripes together, and developed the increasingly popular concept of 'food sovereignty'. Their action alerts are timely and important, and they're a definite first stop for international action for a more just food system.
More at http://www.viacampesina.org/

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Posted on 1 December, 2006 - 21:46