Newsletter no 17 - Youth and Agriculture

Young people in action:struggles and visions for Food Sovereignty
Peasant villages which resist, feed the fertile soil where the youth grow to join their hands together in a creation of the future. The youth which is the people, the youth which is the earth.
Young people in the rural areas of the world are facing one of the greatest challenges in all history: gathering the testimonies of the farmers’ struggle and at the same time facing the new challenges for the construction of a (...)

A Landless Youth, 30 years later Raul Amorim - Collective Youth Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) - Pernambuco, Brazil.
30 years ago, young people with a belief that the land struggle should go beyond their local territory, put their bagpacks on and set out to build a National Movement of Landless Rural Workers, fighting not only for land but also for agrarian reform and for social transformation projects. It was young people who created the Movement of Landless Workers (MST). (...)

“We struggle for an education that teaches us to think – not one that teaches us to obey.” Paulo Freire.
Feeding Critical Thought The vast majority of rural youth are marginalized at all levels of the educational system, and the very few opportunities to study exist in institutions that reproduce the transnational perspective of agriculture, a model that goes against the interests of smallholder family farmers. While mainstream universities continue graduating what they call “technicians” (...)

There will be no future for Food Sovereignty without the participation of young people – young people that are committed to the historical struggle for the liberation of our peoples and the transformation of our reality. As the Youth of La Vía Campesina (LVC), we must recognize the dignity and value in the work we do to maintain our struggles. During the 3rd International Assembly of the Youth of La Via Campesina, we identified the major areas of struggle as - Agroecology, Climate Change and (...)