La Vía Campesina is an international agrarian movement, and this presentation will explore the main strategies and collective actions of La Vía Campesina in their efforts to build alternatives to the powerful forces of neo-liberal economic globalization. At the heart of this resistance is a powerful imagination.
In less than twenty years La Vía Campesina has become one of the world’s most significant international agrarian movements. It is active at the local, national, regional and international levels, struggling for the rights of millions of peasants, small-scale farmers, rural women, farm workers and indigenous agrarian communities. La Vía Campesina coalesced in the North and South around common goals: an explicit rejection of the neo-liberal model of rural development, an outright refusal to be excluded from agricultural policy development and a firm determination to work to build a peasant-based, socially-just and ecologically sustainable model of agriculture based on food sovereignty.
This event is coordinated by the Center for Latin American Studies Poverty and Inequality Working Group and is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the School of Environment and Natural Resources. For more information, please contact Erika Colijn at colijn.2@osu.edu or Cathy Rakowski at rakowski.1@osu.edu.
