World Hunger Day 2024: Uphold people’s food sovereignty! Defend peasants’ rights!
(Organized by the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty, PAN Asia Pacific, Asian Peasant Coalition, and ILPS Commission 6.) As we mark this year’s World Hunger Day and the Global Month of Solidarity with Peasants , we bring the world’s attention to how a new wave of neoliberal attacks and imperialist-backed wars are further worsening the […]
Defend Lupang Ramos, Lupang Tartaria, and bagsakan farmers of SJDM, Bulacan! Hands off peasant communities in the Philippines!
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) vehemently condemns the escalating militarization and attacks against farmers of Lupang Ramos and Lupang Tartaria in Cavite province and the bagsakan farmers of San Jose del Monte (SJDM), Bulacan province. For decades, farmers in these areas have militantly struggled against the landgrabbing of big landlords in their provinces […]
Position Paper: Accelerating the Adoption of Food Sovereignty and Agroecology for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development in Zambia
ZAMSOF (Zambia Social Forum) is a nonprofit civil society organization based in Zambia, Africa that aims at community service, advocacy, and being a voice for the voiceless. ZAMSOF is a member organization of PCFS. Introduction In the face of escalating climate change impacts, the need for sustainable agricultural practices in the global south such as Zambia […]
Rest in power, Prof. Reginald Vallejos, staunch food sovereignty advocate & progressive educator
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty expresses deep condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Prof. Reginald Vallejos, President of the All UP Academic Employees’ Union – Manila and faculty of the University of the Philippines. Prof. Reggy is a Board member of the PCFS Global Secretariat based in the Philippines. Prof. Reggie made […]
Landless speak out vs World Bank Land Conference
Rural peoples’ organizations worldwide denounced land policies of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that enabled corporate land grabs and resource plunder in a global speakout held 13 May 2024, the first day of the WB Land Conference 2024. The “Global Speakout of the Landless!” featured the outcomes of the Landless Voices consultation series […]
‘No chance of surviving the looming world crisis unless we form a global anti-imperialist unity’ Azra Sayeed on the Int’l Geopolitical Situation at Ground Zero Peoples’ Forum
Ground Zero: People’s Forum on Resistance Against Bombings, Militarism, and Repression | 19 June 2024 | Held at the International Festival for People’s Rights and Struggles at Penang, Malaysia Azra Talat Sayeed is the General Secretary of the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS) and the chairperson of the Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN). She […]
Genuine land reform’s goal is the complete abolition of domestic feudalism and forms of unjust tenure and arrangements: Rafael Mariano on Global Speakout of the Landless
Global Speakout of the Landless! | May 13, 2024 Organized by Asian Peasant Coalition, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty, PAN Asia Pacific, Int’l Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation, and International League of Peoples’ Struggle – Commission 6 Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano is the KMP chairperson emeritus and former secretary of the Department […]
Impacts on Imperialist wars and aggression on Palestinian farmers, fisherfolks and peasants
This speech is part of the ILPS Commission 6 Workshop held on the 22nd of June 2024 at Penang Malaysia. Hassan Al Jaajaa, APN (Arab Group for the Protection of Nature) Co-Founder, also served as one of the keynote speakers at the opening session of the 7th International Conference of the International League of Peoples’ […]
APN co-founder on ILPS 7th Int’l Assembly: Stand in resilience and march forward with peoples toward victory
Hassan Al Jaajaa, APN (Arab Group for the Protection of Nature) Co-Founder, is a keynote speaker at the opening session of the 7th International Conference of the International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS), attended by 500 participants from around the world. Al Jaajaa also spoke on the struggles of the Palestinian rural peoples at the […]