Category: Statements
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Forward Our Future
The Global People’s Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice (GPC) took off in 2023 to mobilize rural communities and advocates for their rights and interests across all global regions and around the inter-related issues of food, land, and climate justice. It strived to provide a platform to forge greater solidarity among rural peoples and…
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Honor Indigenous Peoples, fight against land grabs and false solutions!
This International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Global People’s Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice stands in firm solidarity with Indigenous communities worldwide. We honor and support their resolute struggle for land and resources as they #FightForOurFuture towards our collective goal of just, equitable, healthy and sustainable food systems. We recognize that…
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80 years is enough: Fight for food, land, and climate justice! Shut down the IMF-World Bank!
Rural peoples’ resistance against the IMF-World Bank and their policies and programs has persisted throughout the 80 years of existence of these imperialist financial institutions. The rural peoples’ movements and their allies, which comprise the Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice, will continue these struggles.
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Insufficient and World Bank-hosted Loss and Damage Fund, an affront to rural peoples
Statement on the operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund by Chennaiah Poguri, spokesperson of the Global People’s Caravan for Food, Land and Climate Justice and National Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Vyvasaya Vruthidarula Union (APVVU), a federation of farmers, agricultural workers, landless peasants, and other working rural peoples in India: “The decision to finally…
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Justice for Haiyan survivors and all victims of climate disasters
On the 10th anniversary of super typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, we stand in solidarity with the millions of victims of its devastation who continue to struggle to rebuild their lives a decade since the disaster. We are one with each victim of climate-related disasters in their demand for climate justice and rehabilitation. Governments and…
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Zero hope for zero hunger: Break the chains of imperialism and forward the future free of hunger, dispossession, and destruction!
Unparalleled urgency marks our annual commemoration of World Hunger Day amid imperialist machinations to advance a sinister agenda to monopolize further and exploit global food systems under the pretext of saving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and urgent climate actions. It is undeniable that we are nowhere near zero hunger as envisioned under the SDGs,…
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Peoples’ struggles and solidarity, not UNFSS, will build just, equitable, healthy, and sustainable food systems
As the UN Food Systems Summit takes stock (the “UNFSS +2“) of what they have achieved in the past two years, one thing is clear: this platform that the monopoly corporations and their allies control will never truly address the structural roots of worldwide hunger and food insecurity. What they peddle is bound to deepen…