Appeal From La Via Campesina

• The rains don’t come as they did before, which has altered our traditional production cycles.
• There are more and more devastating extreme climate events, like hurricanes, cyclones, and monsoons that destroy our farms, and ever more severe droughts that kill our crops while our animals die from lack of water.
• There are more and more devastating extreme climate events, like hurricanes, cyclones, and monsoons that destroy our farms, and ever more severe droughts that kill our crops while our animals die from lack of water.
• In no case have the bad governments or the corporations responded adequately to the mounting losses we are suffering, nor do they take responsibility for the wounds they are inflicting on the Mother Earth and our climate.
• We fight against the False Solutions to climate change promoted by transnational corporations and governments:
• Carbon credits and trading mechanisms are really just privatizing our atmosphere and climate. They allow polluters of the atmosphere to keep polluting, and are leading to massive land grabs and mass evictions of peasant communities so that giant corporations can “cultivate climate credits” in the form of environmentally disastrous monoculture plantations of Eucalyptus, etc., that are really Green Deserts.
• Agrofuels are another lie that allows corporate criminals to highjack public coffers to plant industrial monocultures – many times with GMOs – and evict peasants and family farmers from our lands – while they do not significantly moderate climate effects.

• La Industrial agriculture is responsible for 11 to 15%
• Deforestation causes 15 to 18% additionally
• The processing, packaging and transport of food provoke 15 to 20%
• The decomposition of organic garbage: 3 to 4%
• In sum, the industrial food system generated between 44 and 57% of global greenhouse gas emissions

• We produce for local food systems, with agroecological methods that avoid fossil fuel consumption.
• A Food Sovereignty based on local production of healthy food by peasants and family farmers is the best way to deal with the Climate Crisis and the Food Crisis
• FOOD SOVEREIGNTY COOLS THE PLANET

• At the last Climate Summit, in Copenhagen, our voices were excluded, and we had to take to the streets to be heard.
• The UN has refused to include the results of Cochabamba Forum in the agenda for Cancun.
• We must take to the streets again in Cancun, this time in larger than ever numbers, with our allies and friends from around the world, to make sure that the voices of reason are heard in Cancun and around the world.
• We will hold an ALTERNATIVE PEOPLES CLIMATE FORUM in the camp, open to the world.
• We need resources so that thousands of peasants and indigenous people, who earn less than USD 300 a year per family, can get to Cancun and be heard. This is a life and death struggle for us.
• We need support for buses, tents, latrines, drinking water, outdoor cooking facilities, corn, beans and rice, a health post, sound equipment, a generator, etc.
• If you cannot be in Cancún yourself, with your support WE CAN BE YOUR VOICE.