African peasants reject corporate seed laws and assault on peasant seeds and food sovereignty
28 Nov 2013
That La Via Campesina (LVC) is now established and active in Zimbabwe is extremely good news. This has positive implications for supporting African peoples’ struggles to preserve and to protect local community autonomy in the future, but it also has relevance for strengthening communities’ capacity to conserve their land, water and biodiversity. The biggest threat in Africa today appears to be coming from foreign corporations involved in grabbing community land to establish large-scale industrial plantations of animal feed, timber and biofuel crops; in order to export to, and to satisfy demand from, greedy …
