PEASANTS SPEAK - The Vía Campesina: Consolidating an International Peasant and Farm Movement
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- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Peasant Studies
- Vol. 29 (2) , 91-124
- https://doi.org/10.1080/714003943
Abstract
Concerted attempts to exclude farming people from policy development and decision-making have been accompanied by the formation of an international peasant and farm movement, the Via Campesina, which emerged in 1993. This article examines the response of peasant and farm organizations to the increased globalization of an industrialized and liberalized model of agriculture by analyzing the formation, consolidation and functioning of the Via Campesina. The Via Campesina is using three traditional weapons of the weak - organization, cooperation and community - to redefine rural development and to build an alternative model, one that is based on social justice, gender and ethnic equality, economic equity and environmental sustainability.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: