While a multipolar world is on the horizon, the demands for the Right to Land and the Comprehensive and Popular Agrarian Reform, Food Sovereignty and denunciations against criminalization and persecution of social leaders, remain in force and active as the fundamental basis of historical struggles that have brought victories to the peasant movement.
Main ideas taken from the case study “Community Supported Agriculture – blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers, urban and rural, and furthering our commons …
As part of our special February series dedicated to food and human rights, we interviewed Geneviève Savigny, a peasant and the president of the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2024-2025). In this conversation, we discuss the recent formation of this working group and its role in implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).
In this interview, Geneviève Savigny highlights the importance of the new UN working group, the challenges in implementing UNDROP, and the role that peasant movements and the Nyéléni Forum can play in this process.
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